kobopatch request thread

[AsherMaximum]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

I was poking around in libnickel.so.1.0.0 earlier, and I remembered a few users reporting that the patch "Block WiFi firmware upgrade" didn't actually work a few firmwares ago (as the patch description warns might be the case). I noticed the following strings appear near the "UpgradeCheck" strings that get patched:

I was also poking around, and I compared the patched version output by KoboPatch, and found that not all instances of "UpgradeCheck/%1/%2/%3/%4/%5" were replaced - only the ones where that was the full string. It did not update the instance where the string is "https://api.kobobooks.com/1.0/UpgradeCheck/%1/%2/%3/%4/%5"

If you update the Block WiFi firmware upgrade patch to be:

  - FindReplaceString:
      Find:    "UpgradeCheck/%1/%2/%3/%4/%5"
      Replace: "UpgradeCheck/%1/%2/k/99.9/5"
  - FindReplaceString:
      Find:    "https://api.kobobooks.com/1.0/UpgradeCheck/%1/%2/%3/%4/%5"
      Replace: "https://api.kobobooks.com/1.0/UpgradeCheck/%1/%2/k/99.9/5"

Note that you need both FindReplaceStrings. The first one is the existing patch, add the 2nd one to it.

Now WiFi upgrades are fully blocked. This INCLUDES the "Check for updates" button under settings, so after this, the only way to update will be by manual uploading a new KoboRoot.tgz file.

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by AsherMaximum

If you update the Block WiFi firmware upgrade patch to be:

Yes, your revised patch matches the fix in the kobopatch GitHub:

https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch-patches/pull/137

[Stikerr]

Is it possible for a patch to change the default keyboard layout of a given language, rather than the Extended Latin layout?

Specially I want to switch the default Turkish layout into Turkish F, an older but less popular layout for the Turkish language. The Extended Latin layout is fit for it, but would unfortunately require me to switch to Extended Latin every time I use the keyboard.

This is for Kobo Clara HD.

Thanks

[Stikerr]

Sorry to double post, but I realised my specific example might be too unfamiliar to most. Technically it should be the similar to patching Dvorak as the default for the English keyboard layout.

I'm not a very technical person but I did bother to take a look through the libnickel file with a hex editor. It seems that unlike with Extended Latin, there aren't any obvious series of qwerty/azerty/qwertz/etc characters for the language layouts. Trying to figure it out might be too much work for what it's worth.

[belle39234]

I was wondering if it's possible to change the dog ear bookmark into a different kind of bookmark by swapping it with a custom image? I know it's very petty but dog earring books personally offends me and I'd like to change it!

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by belle39234

I was wondering if it's possible to change the dog ear bookmark into a different kind of bookmark by swapping it with a custom image? I know it's very petty but dog earring books personally offends me and I'd like to change it!

There was some investigative work done in 2016 but you'd need to treat it as your own research project. See this thread by @pipcat.