K5 FW 5.x ScreenSavers Hack - Page 92

NiLuJe · 11-25-2014, 06:17 PM

Released ScreenSavers v0.21.N, which *should* ensure compatibility with FW 5.6.x

eschwartz · 11-25-2014, 06:54 PM

Isn't it an official forum recommendation NOT to use rar?

NiLuJe · 11-25-2014, 06:55 PM

@eschwartz: It's also a forum requirement not to let me use decent compression algorithms/formats, and limiting uploads to 20MB, so, kind of stuck on that one

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eschwartz · 11-25-2014, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@eschwartz: It's also a forum requirement not to let me use decent compression algorithms/formats, and limiting uploads to 20MB, so, kind of stuck on that one

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Huh, what about that.

Perhaps add a note somewhere about the need for programs which can unpack rar. I mean, the only reason zip gets used so much is because it is built into Windows. I would guess there will be people who don't know how to unpack it.

Like the way you warn people of the need for 7-zip/tar, in the snapshots thread.

NiLuJe · 11-25-2014, 07:22 PM

The legacy stuff has been using rar archives since pretty much the beginning, and I've hardly ever had anyone complaining about it, so I'm going to assume rar support is fairly ubiquitous, even in Windows-land

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(Hell, I remember stuff being shared as multi-part rar archives on freaking floppy disks ;D).

knc1 · 11-25-2014, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Isn't it an official forum recommendation NOT to use rar?

As far as I know, that was just me sounding off about not using licensed, for-fee archivers.

* The de-compressor(s) is(are) Open Source but some of the compression routines remain closed and licensed.

What we **should** do is get that list of acceptable filename extensions updated.

Lots of luck with that, I haven't heard from Alex for over a year.

eschwartz · 11-25-2014, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

As far as I know, that was just me sounding off about not using licensed, for-fee archivers.

* The de-compressor(s) is(are) Open Source but some of the compression routines remain closed and licensed.

Good enough for me.

I meant the Kindle Developers Corner subforum.

Quote:

What we **should** do is get that list of acceptable filename extensions updated.

Lots of luck with that, I haven't heard from Alex for over a year.

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Valid file extensions: avi azw azw2 azw3 bat bin bmp bz2 doc enews epub gif gz hsc imp ipk ixl jar jpe jpeg jpg kml lit lrf mobi opf pdb pdf pl pm png prc psd rar rtf sdl site sxl tar txt xml xpi zip

The size is somewhat of an issue though -- for a set of archive formats, it is bizarre that ZIP and RAR have a 20 MB cap, GZ has a 15 MB cap, and BZ2 has

a 5 MB cap!!!

Good luck contacting him. He has posted in response to the server migration, in the announcements subforum.

NiLuJe · 11-26-2014, 03:04 AM

Yup, you got the gist of it

. Only using it because I have to in this context

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arad26 · 11-26-2014, 09:25 AM

I have a PW2 and after the upgrade to the newest firmware i lost the Screensaver hack. The problem is i can't install it again, because when i eject the device the .bin file is deleted automatically . I tried not to eject the device and restart it , but it doesn't install it . How can i make it work ? Thank you

eschwartz · 11-26-2014, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arad26

I have a PW2 and after the upgrade to the newest firmware i lost the Screensaver hack. The problem is i can't install it again, because when i eject the device the .bin file is deleted automatically . I tried not to eject the device and restart it , but it doesn't install it . How can i make it work ? Thank you

You cannot. See the last few posts in the jailbreak thread.

tl;dr -- that upgrade is evil, it was warned aginst, and now you're screwed unless you know how to use a serial port.

NiLuJe · 11-26-2014, 10:05 AM

@arad26: Like @eschwartz, I'm assuming you're talking past tense, before the updated JailBreak came out.

In which case, yup, what he said

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On the other hand, if you are doing stuff in the right order, and you were running JB >= 1.13.N before updating, just update KUAL and use the MR Installer to update the SS hack.

hokagetonton · 11-28-2014, 05:28 AM

I have set the screensaver mode to cover but when I press the power button it comes up with "The ScreenSavers Hack is currently in 'cover' mode, but hasn't yet successfully processed a book cover

"

(by the way that smiley in the talking marks is the actual writing not the smiley

I have made sure to make the cover file a proper blank file in my kindle root and have got the latest jailbreak for a compatible version of kindle. (5.3.7.2) I have done all the steps and am not inexperienced with these things and have done lots on my kindle 4 nt. There was a few posts about this earlier on in the thread but the guy with the problem didn't follow up on it. I have also set the time right (not sure where the date is for Kindle touch) and deleted autoreboot and then tried it with autoreboot as well. here is the default kindle metadata and the calibre metadata for a book though they are only screenshots I don't know how to find just the metadata so here is the whole book aswell. I have tried this with quite a few books yet none work.

also seeing as this is my first post thank you to all those main contributors in this forum you have been a massive help.

edit - actually it turns out this doesn't work on kindle 4 nt either. It seems highly likely that the problem is with the books although I've even gone to the effort of downloading new and full metadata off calibre yet it still won't work. so if it is with the books I've tried so many what book metadata actually does work?

hokagetonton · 11-28-2014, 05:30 AM

the non calibre metadata (default kindle amazon store)

NiLuJe · 11-28-2014, 06:34 AM

@hokagetonton: That very much sounds like the date/time is messed up on your device(s). If you see the placeholder screensaver, cover mode is enabled, so you're good on that front (and autoreboot is irrelevant here, even more so on a K5, where it's fairly useless).

Note that Calibre isn't magic, you actually have to re 'Send To Device' updated books for the metadata to take

. [That said, except on very broken books, you should be okay with straight-from-AMZ books].

On the K5, you'll have to keep a book open for ~10s before the cover is locked on (should be faster on a K4, on the other hand). If your device is extremely busy (indexing), then the timing can go haywire. Check that it's not busy indexing, then try again.

pghaworth · 11-28-2014, 01:53 PM

@NiLuJe - I did a restart of the testing PW2 last night and it said something like screensaver [hack] setting up. This is the second time I've seen this on a restart. It's the same message you see when you first install the hack through MRI. Is this normal behavior? I did the two restarts [on different days] because it was unresponsive.

11-28-2014, 05:30 AM	#1378
hokagetonton Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: kindle 4nt, kindle touch	forgot to ad this the non calibre metadata (default kindle amazon store) Last edited by hokagetonton; 11-28-2014 at 06:29 AM.

11-28-2014, 06:34 AM	#1379
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@hokagetonton: That very much sounds like the date/time is messed up on your device(s). If you see the placeholder screensaver, cover mode is enabled, so you're good on that front (and autoreboot is irrelevant here, even more so on a K5, where it's fairly useless). Note that Calibre isn't magic, you actually have to re 'Send To Device' updated books for the metadata to take . [That said, except on very broken books, you should be okay with straight-from-AMZ books]. On the K5, you'll have to keep a book open for ~10s before the cover is locked on (should be faster on a K4, on the other hand). If your device is extremely busy (indexing), then the timing can go haywire. Check that it's not busy indexing, then try again. Last edited by NiLuJe; 11-28-2014 at 06:37 AM.

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11-25-2014, 06:17 PM	#1366
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Released ScreenSavers v0.21.N, which should ensure compatibility with FW 5.6.x

11-25-2014, 06:54 PM	#1367
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Isn't it an official forum recommendation NOT to use rar?

11-25-2014, 06:55 PM	#1368
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@eschwartz: It's also a forum requirement not to let me use decent compression algorithms/formats, and limiting uploads to 20MB, so, kind of stuck on that one .

11-25-2014, 07:22 PM	#1370
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	The legacy stuff has been using rar archives since pretty much the beginning, and I've hardly ever had anyone complaining about it, so I'm going to assume rar support is fairly ubiquitous, even in Windows-land . (Hell, I remember stuff being shared as multi-part rar archives on freaking floppy disks ;D).

11-26-2014, 03:04 AM	#1373
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Yup, you got the gist of it . Only using it because I have to in this context .

11-26-2014, 09:25 AM	#1374
arad26 Zealot Posts: 120 Karma: 60050 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: PW2	I have a PW2 and after the upgrade to the newest firmware i lost the Screensaver hack. The problem is i can't install it again, because when i eject the device the .bin file is deleted automatically . I tried not to eject the device and restart it , but it doesn't install it . How can i make it work ? Thank you

11-26-2014, 10:05 AM	#1376
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@arad26: Like @eschwartz, I'm assuming you're talking past tense, before the updated JailBreak came out. In which case, yup, what he said . On the other hand, if you are doing stuff in the right order, and you were running JB >= 1.13.N before updating, just update KUAL and use the MR Installer to update the SS hack.

11-28-2014, 01:53 PM	#1380
pghaworth Fervent Pleasure Seeker Posts: 1,224 Karma: 712073 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: The Windmills of My Mind Device: Clara HD	@NiLuJe - I did a restart of the testing PW2 last night and it said something like screensaver [hack] setting up. This is the second time I've seen this on a restart. It's the same message you see when you first install the hack through MRI. Is this normal behavior? I did the two restarts [on different days] because it was unresponsive.