Kobo Firmware 3.11.0

[Nick_1964]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

That's a bit of a quirk, sometimes I change the font and that fixes it, something a bit thinner.

That is the same with the footer patch, the first time applied the text page xx of xx is off the page and very big and ugly, just change the marges 1 time and it is good for every time,it have to just build the txt once new

[mr_nihilism]

I appreciate all the suggestions! each and everybody.

The solution to the pollution (in my case at least) was to use calibre to adjust margins to 1.0

Everything seems to be in order now. Read on, everyone.

[Anak]

Originally Posted by mr_nihilism

I made the necessary changes and it does indeed eliminate the header/footer, but now with a Calibre sideloaded epub all my text along the right hand side from top to bottom is cut off somewhat. Adjusting font settings does not fix the problem.

I tried it with one Kobo purchased book and it works excellent without issues.

Have you tried the patch to fix the cut off characters at the right hand side?
To fix this you should apply the 'Margins fine tuning' patch only.

<Patch>
patch_name = `Margins fine tuning`
patch_enable = `yes`
#
# Do not enable this patch unless you're sure you need it.
# It may cause the screen to be off-centre.
#
# Initial replaces
replace_bytes = 9A9D88, 19 46, 00 21
replace_bytes = 9A9D8C, 1A 46, 00 22
# Values for replace
# Left margin
replace_int = 9A9D88, 0, 00
# Top margin
replace_int = 9A9D8C, 0, 00
</Patch>

The red values are the default values, green are the modified values. Only change the green values or the patch won't work. 00 are the values I use. Use a value < 21 and < 22 that suits you.
This might fix cut off characters at the end of a line. This patch might not work if the cut off is triggered by a 'hard margin' or @page rule.

[mr_nihilism]

Good info to have, Anak. Calibre adjustments seem to do the trick, but if I run into any other trouble I'll use that.

The whole topic probably deserves it's own thread.

[icallaci]

Is there a setting in 3.11.0 that will refresh the current page upon waking from sleep? When my Aura HD wakes, the ghost image of the front cover is so noticeable that it interferes with the text on the page. This didn't happen with 3.8.0. I'd prefer a refresh on waking rather than setting my page refresh to 1. Any way to do this?

[murg]

Originally Posted by Nick_1964

@Davidfor I think I gonna stop now,because we just disagree and only try to "defend" our stands while we perhaps bother other people with it, i can't pull you to my side as a matter of speaking and you can not pull me to yours,

Clearly you have no idea how this whole 'internet' thing works...

[arspr]

Originally Posted by arspr

Well, first tests with known issues about PDFs in 3.8.0 which davidfor didn't mention and which I'm sad to say aren't fixed:

• The performance of certain books is just abismal. (Link to original 3.8.0 thread). ottdmk PMed me a book to test but it is copyrighted so it can't be posted here. I haven't found a free document to test.
• An another sub-issue: Some pdfs just make the device crash and reboot. Link to a conflictive book: Canon EOS 7D Mark II autofocus guide.
• Bad handling of pdfs which contain different page sizes/orientation. It seems the size reference is locked to the first page size, so in the rest of the document you can get cropped pages (in "bigger" pages) or huge white areas (in "smaller" pages). (Link to original thread).

More over Web Browser is somehow broken again. Good web-page to test: THIS ONE

• The font has been changed and because of its size these forums don't fit in the available horizontal space. They are WIDER than the screen size... (You have to horizontally drag the screen to fully read it).
• But when you drag and drop, sometimes a lot of the previous text/images is left. The device doesn't do a final refresh in order to clean all the left-over text. Result: unreadable web pages.
• Something about cookies is broken. I log in Mobileread and I tick the "Remember me" option. Then, I turn off the device, turn it on, I return to Mobileread again and I'm NOT remembered... I can swear this issue didn't happen in 3.8.0

Incredible, Kobo is just incredible... in each new release they break something new which previously worked more or less fine...

BUMP

My original post seems to have gone "unnoticed".

Am I the only one who uses the Web Browser?

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by icallaci

Is there a setting in 3.11.0 that will refresh the current page upon waking from sleep? When my Aura HD wakes, the ghost image of the front cover is so noticeable that it interferes with the text on the page. This didn't happen with 3.8.0. I'd prefer a refresh on waking rather than setting my page refresh to 1. Any way to do this?

On the Glo, it seems to refresh the screen upon wakening the reader. The Glo with the old 2.4.0 firmware on it also resets the counter to 0 so it takes 50 page turns for another refresh (my setting is at 50). While firmware 3.11.0 refreshes on waking, it doesn't reset the page turn counter to 0, it just continues from where it was. But it's a definite page refresh, if I leave it at 49 pages where I can start to make out dark areas where old lines of text were, those dark lines are completely gone when I wake the reader.

Originally Posted by arspr

BUMP

My original post seems to have gone "unnoticed".

Am I the only one who uses the Web Browser?

I never use the browser on my reader because of the obvious limitations for one, and when I open my reader, it's to read only and nothing else (and no, I don't count reading forums as "reading" ).

[camelriders]

Originally Posted by Ebri

My SD is detected under Nickel, but does the same 10 or more seconds waiting with both systems. I thought about the above solution, I hope this week I'll have time to do the above and it will help. But what are the new features of 3.11?

Could it be you are using a slow SD card?
Do you have allot of data on the card for the device to read?

[icallaci]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

On the Glo, it seems to refresh the screen upon wakening the reader. The Glo with the old 2.4.0 firmware on it also resets the counter to 0 so it takes 50 page turns for another refresh (my setting is at 50). While firmware 3.11.0 refreshes on waking, it doesn't reset the page turn counter to 0, it just continues from where it was. But it's a definite page refresh, if I leave it at 49 pages where I can start to make out dark areas where old lines of text were, those dark lines are completely gone when I wake the reader.

Hmmm...interesting. My Aura HD doesn't seem to refresh on waking with 3.11.0. Not a big deal, but the ghost image of the cover is distracting now, whereas with previous firmware versions I never noticed it. Thanks.

[camelriders]

Originally Posted by Nick_1964

Swiping works for ages ! works much better than the new option...
Seriously.. if I was a manufacturer, it would scared me if there was a "known bug" or even more, a "known bug list"... I would call the staff and let them chase the bugs.. in stead of making new things that are there already but could be adressed in another way, i would be ashamed that old bugs are going into new firmware.

Normally I set the light only once.. but we need that option to slide the screen to adjust the light (NOT) .

Yeah, we do need to slide adjust for the light setting as its far easier than going into the menu. I change the light setting often especially when ambient lighting is always changing or as my eyes adjust or starting aching... maybe you have not hit that magical age where that stuff starts to happen

I see no reason to put down a good feature you don't use and surely you can at least see that it's a good feature, maybe not for you, but if the feature makes sense, then why complain about it especially if you are not using it. I also will put the device down and slide the light off and walk away, maybe for an hour, maybe longer, and I don't worry about killing the battery as it runs forever without the light or wifi active - not comfortable sleeping the device right now because when the device wakes up, the screen is frozen and I have to power down/up to resolve the issue.

I get your reason concerning adding new features and not fixing bugs and maybe that applies to the above feature, although, that does not seem like a hard feature to implement since the touch screen is already part of the device so I can't see much coding involved as they are just calling another aspect of code already written into the device for light adjustments.

We are not sure how the company operates as they may have a team of developers dedicated to bug fixes and a different team dedicated to new features. Still, I can't argue with the fact that maybe everyone should have been directed to fix the bugs first, then move on. I have worked in IT and supported the development team and pushed all their releases to production and although they (dev team) may have wanted to fix bugs, sometimes management has a different idea. Many times, the people that decide what get's fixed have already committed to a schedule to release certain new features and plenty of times those new features were being demanded by senior management so one can never fully understand software release logic (per particular company) when clueless people are making the final decisions, especially being on the outside.

[camelriders]

Originally Posted by arspr

BUMP

My original post seems to have gone "unnoticed".

Am I the only one who uses the Web Browser?

I have used the browser and it works but that was just to test it out - I usually have my PC on so hitting the PC would be allot faster than the slow tab.

Having come from a Kindle, where the experimental browser seems like it came out of the mid nineties, this is refreshing that it actually works on the Kobo

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by icallaci

Is there a setting in 3.11.0 that will refresh the current page upon waking from sleep? When my Aura HD wakes, the ghost image of the front cover is so noticeable that it interferes with the text on the page. This didn't happen with 3.8.0. I'd prefer a refresh on waking rather than setting my page refresh to 1. Any way to do this?

I'm having a slightly different but perhaps related issue with 3.11.0 on my Glo: I haven't noticed any ghosting from the sleep screen, but the text on the page it shows after waking from sleep is very light. If I turn the page forward and then back the text returns to normal darkness, even without a refresh.

[GeoffR]

One more minor item for the changelog: The Dyslexie font has been removed from this firmware. (The OpenDyslexic font is still present.)

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

One more minor item for the changelog: The Dyslexie font has been removed from this firmware. (The OpenDyslexic font is still present.)

And I even asked Kobo about this in case it was a mistake.