Poke 3 questions

[Renate]

Are you conversant with ADB, got drivers?
Do you have a spare USB flash drive?
Do you have a USB Type C OTG adapter? (Or a Type C flash drive.)
If not, why not?

[kaznelson]

Originally Posted by Renate

Are you conversant with ADB, got drivers?

~Three years ago I worked with ADB. There are drivers.

Originally Posted by Renate

Do you have a spare USB flash drive?

Yes, 4GB.

Originally Posted by Renate

Do you have a USB Type C OTG adapter? (Or a Type C flash drive.)

USB Type C OTG adapter (even two).

[Renate]

You are talking about a Poke3, right?
Ok, put the decrypted, modified update.zip on a flash drive in the root directory as update.zip
Download p9mod.prc (and just rename it p9mod.img).
Flash it with "fastboot flash recovery p9mod.img" or EDL or dd it if you are rooted.
Reboot recovery
You will hear a "bong" of the ADB connecting. 4 seconds later the screen will turn white.

C:\>adb shell
# start autoupdate

It will say "Waiting for flash".
Unplug the cable that you are using for ADB.
Plug in your flash drive.
Sit back. (Please note if it mentions vfat or exfat.)
It should go to completion, then reboot.

For latest version see later posts...

[kaznelson]

How to format USB-flash drive? If 16GB + fat32 or exFAT, writes "Flash partition of unknown type ee".

PS: FAT - "Flash partition of unknown type 0e".

PPS: From the 10th attempt, 4GB + exFAT still worked. Sitting...

[Renate]

Originally Posted by kaznelson

"Flash partition of unknown type ee".

I just updated the code to support vfat and exfat because I noticed that my 128 GB drive didn't work. It doesn't work for EFI.

Could you do me a favor?
Download sdcard.exe from http://www.temblast.com/windows.htm
Plug in the nasty EFI drive and see what letter it is.
You have to be at an admin prompt.

C:\>sdcard G: efi.prc /r /c32

Could you post that efi.prc? (It doesn't contain any personal data, you can check.)

Did you try another drive?

[kaznelson]

2 drives: Corsair 4GB in FAT / exFAT and Transcend 16GB in FAT32 / exFAT. Here is 16GB + exFAT and copied to a file.
Worked only Corsair 4GB+exFAT... as ancient as mammoth dung.

PS: Firmware has completed successfully. Thank you!

Tell please, but will native recovery return after updating the firmware, or does it need to be manually flashed?

[Renate]

Thanks for the dumps!

Originally Posted by kaznelson

Tell please, but will native recovery return after updating the firmware, or does it need to be manually flashed?

No. Right now you have the custom recovery. The good part is that the stock recovery is right under the hood if you want it.

C:\>adb reboot recovery
C:\>adb shell
# start recovery

[kaznelson]

Understood. Thanks again.
If you improve this recovery, post it in this thread, please.
It was an interesting experience...


"Custom recovery" question:
If you try to downgrade firmware (3.3.1->3.2.4) in standard way, then process ends in native recovery (manual reboot). Are there problems with custom recovery in such situations?

PS: I checked - in such cases it should normally go into native recovery.

[Renate]

Here is the latest version of custom recovery for the Poke3.
It is zipped to shave off some size to make it fit in the 20 MB limit here.

Sorry, I missed this:

Originally Posted by kaznelson

If you try to downgrade firmware (3.3.1->3.2.4) in standard way...

If you want to downgrade you may need to modify updater-script in the update.zip
There is usually a line at the top to prevent downgrading.

[Pajamaman]

Originally Posted by mergen3107

Try AlreaderXPro. It has good TTS controls. You can adjust speed and pitch.

Russian Onyx models have this app as default reader.

For engines, try Ivona TTS (that’s what I am currently using). Its voices are much better regarding intonation and pauses.

This is what I use. There is an eink dedicated version.

[Renate]

For the first time since I bought my Poke3 a year ago I've had to charge it.
That is, I'd never seen it shutdown for low battery.
But I never charge it either.
It's just connected to my computer often enough for syncing or development.
I never pay attention to the battery level.

[Renate]

Hmmm, maybe my battery is losing.
It just died suddenly and lost a ton of settings.
It re-enabled a ton of apps that I had disabled.
It reset my gestures to none.
It lost all my apps!
It reset "USB debugging" (fortunately my USB setup has nothing to do with that anymore).

[Renate]

Hmmm, when I close the cover to let my Poke3 sleep (which it does) I sometimes find that it has entirely powered down some time later behind my back.
Is there a timeout setting for that? It never used to do that.

[popej]

In Onyx settings there is separate time to sleep and to power off. At least in Leaf2.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by popej

In Onyx settings there is separate time to sleep and to power off. At least in Leaf2.

Thank you!

settings put system auto_poweroff_timeout -1

Also if you want to fix your gestures without using Onyx:

/data/data/com.android.systemui/gestures_config
{"displayIndicator":false,"enable":true,"enableBehindKeyboard":true,"enableThreePoint":false,"guestConfigMap":{"gestures_bottom_left":"BACK","gestures_bottom_middle":"HOME","gestures_bottom_right":"TASK_SWITCH"},"indicatesHeight":50,"indicatesTransparency":50,"indicatesWidth":50,"preventMiscontact":false,"slideEnable":false,"slidingDistance":100}