Kobo Firmware 3.5.0

[Anak]

Originally Posted by violent23

I don't know if it is just me but I seem to be experiencing more ghosting on 3.5.0. Even with refresh set to 1 page (I know there is a bug with this not refreshing when going to the home screen, or the first page when opening a book from the homescreen) I seem to be getting more ghosting than I was on 3.3.0. Has anyone else noticed this?

Yep, the ghosting is an issue.
And if you set the refesh rate of the screen to any value higher than 1.

• first page after a full refresh the characters are crisp and clear

On next page(s):

• the characters are rendered slighty bolder than on the first page and look less sharp.
• on top af that certain characters (and part of the screen) are rendered even bolder giving it a bolder look, which I would describe as half bold.
• contain minor ghosting/artifacts of previous pages. I'm not sure what the cause is here, but my guess is that these are left overs of the used antialiasing routines. The character is ereased (the black part) but the gray area of the character of the anti-aliasing routine is not fully removed.

The result is less crispy, clear, and sharp characters. The edges of the characters look slightly blurred.

I notice the above on my Kobo Touch and Glo. However these issues may be less prominent on the Aura HD, and Aura 6" as the use updated Pearl screens.

[violent23]

I notice the above on my Kobo Touch and Glo. However these issues may be less prominent on the Aura HD, and Aura 6" as the use updated Pearl screens.

This is on an Aura 2013. Since I installed 3.5.0 the ghosting on book covers (that's what I set all my epubs to open to) and the home screen (when exiting an eBook) appears to be much worse than on 3.3.0.

[vandafc]

I'm very happy with the great improvement of the browser but since I upgrade my Kobo glo to this new 3.5.0 I get a lot of problems with annotations. When I try to select part of a text, the screen is freezing, sometimes the underlining disappears and so on.

Do you have the same kind of problems?

[vandafc]

Originally Posted by lohtse

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo am the only one who has no book covers displayed when touch is a sleep!???

I get a similar problem once after the 3.5.0 upgrade. Seems to be link to a reset of the date/time (it shows a date in 1970 if I remember well).

I restart it and it was fine

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by vandafc

When I try to select part of a text, the screen is freezing, sometimes the underlining disappears and so on.

I have these problems occasionally, especially when I try to select several words across lines, before the handles appear. Suspending and waking up makes the reader responsive again. But this also happened to me with 3.3.0

[vandafc]

Originally Posted by Jellby

I have these problems occasionally, especially when I try to select several words across lines, before the handles appear. Suspending and waking up makes the reader responsive again. But this also happened to me with 3.3.0

Thanks for your feedback Jellby. I also tried the sleep/wakeup and it works but perfs rapidly degrade ...

[Cosimo]

Is 3.5 the update to 3.3?

Was there no 3.4?

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Cosimo

Was there no 3.4?

v3.4 was for the Kobo Mini.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

v3.4 was for the Kobo Mini.

Oddly, I did a factory reset on my Aura HD and the firmware update was to 3.4.1 which shocked the (expletive deleted) out of me.

Regards,
David

[Rev. Bob]

Perhaps that reset was a bit too firm...

[tshering]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Oddly, I did a factory reset on my Aura HD and the firmware update was to 3.4.1 which shocked the (expletive deleted) out of me.

Regards,
David

This is really surprising. Did this happen recently? For curiosity I checked yesterday which firmware is sent to which devices. Apart from Rakuten, all affiliates that I checked, sent 3.3.0 to all devices except Mini (3.4.1).

[vandafc]

Hey, I just discover another bug fix that is part of the 3.5.0:

in annotations the "chapter progress" information is good now (before it was always 0%) - at least for epub ;-)

[vandafc]

and yes, the export of annotation via Calibre shows annotations in the right order and not randomly as before.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by tshering

This is really surprising. Did this happen recently? For curiosity I checked yesterday which firmware is sent to which devices. Apart from Rakuten, all affiliates that I checked, sent 3.3.0 to all devices except Mini (3.4.1).

About 10 days ago. I was expecting either .3 or .5 as well.

Regards,
David

[Rev. Bob]

Originally Posted by vandafc

Hey, I just discover another bug fix that is part of the 3.5.0:

in annotations the "chapter progress" information is good now (before it was always 0%) - at least for epub ;-)

Wish I could get that to work over here. Even when I try the "manually skip to next chapter at the end of the current chapter" trick, the progress info I see on annotations is always messed up. I currently have three annotations in the book I'm reading, and they all say they're 0% into the same chapter. Both of those assertions are wrong; they're not in the same chapter, and they're not at the 0% mark.