Glo Kobo Night Mode

[akorx]

Originally Posted by 4StarGen

Sure I did, probably I didn't power it off and eject it after transfered the file.
Now the patch is correctly installed (as I see new files are created) but I cannot activate the night mode

I haven't got an Glo HD (only a basic Glo), so I don't know, but I've found this : try to press the "home button" (the little house) during 1 second.

Try it and tell me the result.

If it doesn't work, I think you have to modify the nightmode.ini. It seems to be explain here : https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=257246 .

[boriar]

Originally Posted by 4StarGen

Sure I did, probably I didn't power it off and eject it after transfered the file.
Now the patch is correctly installed (as I see new files are created) but I cannot activate the night mode

Aaaah! That's the problem.
Probably you installed the build13 version in first page, not the build13H2O.
1. Download the file attached and install KoboRoot.tgz from install directory.
2. After the install, connect to PC and edit .kobo/nightmode.ini and look for in the brightness section and change these options to value shown

[brightness]
1percentPatch = yes
timeout = 4
100 = toggleNightMode

Now on, when brightness is set to 100% (with slide screen slide-botton) and hold it push 4 seconds, toggle Nightmode on/off

[4StarGen]

Originally Posted by akorx

I haven't got an Glo HD (only a basic Glo), so I don't know, but I've found this : try to press the "home button" (the little house) during 1 second.

Try it and tell me the result.

If it doesn't work, I think you have to modify the nightmode.ini. It seems to be explain here : https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=257246 .

Ty a lot for your time, however it isn't working

[4StarGen]

Originally Posted by boriar

Aaaah! That's the problem.
Probably you installed the build13 version in first page, not the build13H2O.
1. Download the file attached and install KoboRoot.tgz from install directory.
2. After the install, connect to PC and edit .kobo/nightmode.ini and look for in the brightness section and change these options to value shown

[brightness]
1percentPatch = yes
timeout = 4
100 = toggleNightMode

Now on, when brightness is set to 100% (with slide screen slide-botton) and hold it push 4 seconds, toggle Nightmode on/off

First of all ty for your time...
Anyway it isn't working...
I'm posting the .ini file in order to make sure I set it alright.
I tried to set up 100% brightness and keep it for a 10+ secs but isn't working.

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[boriar]

@4StarGen
If the install is correct, your ini file is also correct and it must work in all modern fw and models.
Only for clarify, to activate you must open brightness and see the slide-botton on screen. Then touch it and go to 100% and without free, hold on 100% for 4 second at least. The screen must toggle to nightmode.

[4StarGen]

I do understand that should work, there's no reason it shouldn't.
I noted I have fw 3.15, I should upgrade?
I'm also italian, so I don't know whether the upgrade is available in my country

[boriar]

It's report to work in all fw but in any way you can dowload any fw from here

For some unknow reason, something is wrong. I tell you make a backup of your books and do a factory reset and reinstall Nightmode. With GloHD the internal image is directly 3.15.0.

[4StarGen]

Originally Posted by boriar

It's report to work in all fw but in any way you can dowload any fw from here

For some unknow reason, something is wrong. I tell you make a backup of your books and do a factory reset and reinstall Nightmode. With GloHD the internal image is directly 3.15.0.

Ok, I'll do it, ty again for your time

[John F]

Originally Posted by 4StarGen

I do understand that should work, there's no reason it shouldn't.
I noted I have fw 3.15, I should upgrade?
I'm also italian, so I don't know whether the upgrade is available in my country

FWIW, I have a Glo HD with 3.15.0 and I am using night mode.

[nicopilami]

Originally Posted by boriar

Aaaah! That's the problem.
Probably you installed the build13 version in first page, not the build13H2O.
1. Download the file attached and install KoboRoot.tgz from install directory.
2. After the install, connect to PC and edit .kobo/nightmode.ini and look for in the brightness section and change these options to value shown

[brightness]
1percentPatch = yes
timeout = 4
100 = toggleNightMode

Now on, when brightness is set to 100% (with slide screen slide-botton) and hold it push 4 seconds, toggle Nightmode on/off

Yes, it works well with the H2O file ! thanks a lot.

For those who would think it's better to activate the "night mode" when light is 0% rather than when it is ON at 100%, just don't, I tried yesterday : when you are reading in bed, everything is dark, and you want to activate the night mode... good idea to preserve your eyes, but... you put the screen light to 0%, and then you activate the night mode... mmm... how ??? where will you press the screen when you don't see anything ?

I think I will try to set this value at 5%

Nico

[boriar]

Originally Posted by nicopilami

Yes, it works well with the H2O file ! thanks a lot.

For those who would think it's better to activate the "night mode" when light is 0% rather than when it is ON at 100%, just don't, I tried yesterday : when you are reading in bed, everything is dark, and you want to activate the night mode... good idea to preserve your eyes, but... you put the screen light to 0%, and then you activate the night mode... mmm... how ??? where will you press the screen when you don't see anything ?

I think I will try to set this value at 5%

Nico

I'm glad that work for you.

Good about 0% history.
Well, I use 100% because I use many time low values (from 0% to 6%) so for me 5% (the one you try) and 3% (default in ini file) are worst for me. But the two main reasons to use 100% are because is a value that I never will use and because is too easy to reach and hold than any other value (it's located in a extreme of the bar ) .
Obiously anyone can use the value they want.

[Porthos]

Did this get borked by the most recent recent Kobo update? Haven't had my Glo long and it prompted me to do a system update so I did. When it was done night mode didn't work so I did the process over again of putting that night mode file (the one for 3.3) on the device, and it actually caused my device to do a factory reset.

Nevermind- not sure what happened but after setting it all back up again after it factory resetted itself, I put the file in that folder, it rebooted and night mode is back.

Maybe I have sensitive eyes but the light on this thing at 0% is way too bright at night unless I do night mode.

[amw2]

Just to let people know I installed nightmode from https://github.com/traycold/kobo-nightmode

The trick for me was realising that the on screen brightness/home buttons do *NOT* work. You have to set the brightness to the exact level defined in the configuration file
extra/nightmode.ini (default is 12) to enable it. That is I assume because there is not a special hardware light/home button.
A bit tricky with the slider but that worked!

Great!

Andrew

[john_j]

Hi,

it was a little bit tricky, but now it works on my Glo HD, too. One thing to keep in mind is the option

timeout =

This is set to 7 in the default ini-file. This means, that you have to move the brightness-slider on the Kobo to the defined value (e.g. 3%) and wait for 7 seconds, before something happens. I think this is the reason for me to think that it wouldn't work, initially: I simply didn't wait 7 seconds. Another problem is, that it is very tricky to set the slider to exactly 3%. So I have defined multiple values to switch. Here are my brightness-settings:

[brightness]
1percentPatch = yes
timeout = 2
0 = toggleNightMode
5 = toggleNightMode
10 = toggleNightMode
100 = toggleNightMode


Best regards from Germany,

Heiko

[nicopilami]

Originally Posted by boriar

I'm glad that work for you.

Good about 0% history.
Well, I use 100% because I use many time low values (from 0% to 6%) so for me 5% (the one you try) and 3% (default in ini file) are worst for me. But the two main reasons to use 100% are because is a value that I never will use and because is too easy to reach and hold than any other value (it's located in a extreme of the bar ) .
Obiously anyone can use the value they want.

After multiple tries, I realized the best value seems to be 100% with a delay set to 0
During the reading, you can switch between day & night mode just by swiping the finger to the top, at 100% light, No need to keep the light button pushed for a few seconds !

bye
Nico