Patches for Firmware 4.38.23697

[JSWolf]

Firmware 4.38.23697 is for the Libra 2.

This thread is for the patches for the new firmware 4.38.23697. Most of the patches work. It may work for later firmware. I cannot say as I've not tried.

All of the patchers have been updated thanks to @geek1011

I would like to thank @aardvark for the original updated Windows .exe, geek1011 for fixing all of patchers and @jackie-w and @Semwize for help in updating some of the patches.

Use the file kobopatch.yaml to override the no to yes for each patch you want to apply. I cannot say all the patches work. Most of them do apply. If you have any issue with any of the patches, just post about the issue.

This is the same format as the patches for 4.38.23648.

There are more patchers if you need a different one not in the ZIP file. Please go to https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch...es/tag/v0.16.0 to see if what you need is there if it's not in the ZIP file.

Thank you to @jackie_w for fixing even more patches.

Originally Posted by jackie_w

This is the "official" nickel.yaml file for both firmwares 4.38.23684.

Please note:
Old patch name Increase size of kepub chapter progress chart
has been updated to Increase size of kepub/audio chapter progress chart so that:

• chapter progress barcharts for both kepub and audiobooks can be similarly enlarged. Users who never read audiobooks can still use the new one without issue.
• this patch is no longer reliant on a constantly-changing BaseAddress hex offset so should survive further firmware upgrades without needing to be updated every time.

The update nickel.yaml is now included in the ZIP for the patches.

Thanks to @jackie_w, nickel.yaml has been updated and fixes some patches that previously did not work as well as jackie_w Screensaver full in the custom yaml and Remove forgot pin button from lock screen.

P.S. xor_ has added some new patches. Please see the 2nd post for more information

[JSWolf]

Patches that are known to not work will be posted here.

The following patches do not work

• Customize ComfortLight settings
• Remove PDF map widget shown during panning

If any others do not work, please post about them.

New patches...

• Disable forwards/backwards swipes
• Disable menu swipes

Fixed patches...

• Both page turn buttons go next

[PennyDred]

Thank you to all involved for getting these patches out quickly. All my favourites are working fine, but it took 3 attempts to get them to apply to my elderly Aura H2O. The file appears to copy over to my device but, for whatever reason, doesn't always 'take'. So this is an encouragement for others out there to try a few times.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by PennyDred

Thank you to all involved for getting these patches out quickly. All my favourites are working fine, but it took 3 attempts to get them to apply to my elderly Aura H2O. The file appears to copy over to my device but, for whatever reason, doesn't always 'take'. So this is an encouragement for others out there to try a few times.

I'm glad you got the patches working. The problem could be that your SD card in the H20 is beginning to fail.

[JSWolf]

Thanks to x0r_, there are now two new patches.

• Disable forwards/backwards swipes
• Disable menu swipes

[Apollyon202]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Thanks to x0r_, there are now two new patches.

• Disable forwards/backwards swipes
• Disable menu swipes

Tried it out, works flawlessly on Libra 2. Thanks

[dandaman]

(You misspelled Firmware in the title as Frmware)

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by dandaman

(You misspelled Firmware in the title as Frmware)

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Error corrected.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Error corrected.

Thank you.

[xor_]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The following patches do not work

• Both page turn buttons go next

I've looked into the button issue, and I have it working on my Sage and Forma on fw 4.38.23697.

#both buttons forward
both buttons forward anchored:
  - Enabled: yes
  - BaseAddress: {Sym: "_ZN11ReadingView13keyPressEventEP9QKeyEvent"}
  - ReplaceBytes:
      Offset: 0x3C
      FindH:  68 B9
      ReplaceH: 0D E0

And for my previous patches regarding the swipe gestures, I've made a small change. It is functionally identical, but this way of finding the offset should make it more likely for the patch to survive a firmware update.

#disable fw/bw swipe gestures
disable fw/bw swipe gestures:
  - Enabled: yes
  - BaseAddress: {Sym: "_ZN11ReadingView12processSwipeEP12SwipeGesture"}
  - ReplaceBytes:
      Offset: 0xE8
      FindH: 1D F7 28 CC 
      ReplaceH: 00 BF 00 BF
  - ReplaceBytes:
      Offset: 0xF6
      FindH: 1A F7 F0 C8 
      ReplaceH: 00 BF 00 BF

#disable menu swipe gestures
disable menu swipe gestures:
  - Enabled: yes
  - BaseAddress: {Sym: "_ZN11ReadingView12processSwipeEP12SwipeGesture"}
  - ReplaceBytes:
      Offset: 0x134
      FindH: 3F F7 E6 CA 
      ReplaceH: 00 BF 00 BF
  - ReplaceBytes:
      Offset: 0x13c
      FindH: 12 F7 A2 CB 
      ReplaceH: 00 BF 00 BF

[JSWolf]

I've updated the swipe patches. The patch Both page turn buttons go next now works.

[Liesse]

So I've happily run to this thread as I've seen that some absolute geniuses have got the marvellous both page buttons go next working. Thank you so much for the effort involved in that.

Firmware downloaded and applied to my Libra colour... but Kobo.bat doesn’t seem to be doing anything when I double click it. It quits before I can see what It is doing but I have this in the log file created in the OUT folder:

Could anyone be kind enough to tell me what daft thing I am doing preventing my generating a patch please?

KoboPatch::ApplyPatches
    KoboPatch::openIn
        Opening firmware zip 'src/kobo-update-4.45.23697.zip'
        Looking for KoboRoot.tgz in zip
        --> found KoboRoot.tgz
        -->    opening KoboRoot.tgz
        Opening gzip reader
        Creating tar reader
    patching entry name:'./usr/local/Kobo/libnickel.so.1.0.0' size:24249260 mode:'509' typeflag:'48' with files: src/libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml, src/cloud_sync.yaml
        reading entry contents
        loading patch file 'src/libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml' (detected format kobopatch)
          | parsing patch file: unmarshaling to map[string]yaml.Node
        --> could not parse patch file: yaml: unmarshal errors:
  line 1467: mapping key "Disable forwards/backwards swipes" already defined at line 1455

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Liesse

So I've happily run to this thread as I've seen that some absolute geniuses have got the marvellous both page buttons go next working. Thank you so much for the effort involved in that.

Firmware downloaded and applied to my Libra colour... but Kobo.bat doesn’t seem to be doing anything when I double click it. It quits before I can see what It is doing but I have this in the log file created in the OUT folder:

Could anyone be kind enough to tell me what daft thing I am doing preventing my generating a patch please?

KoboPatch::ApplyPatches
    KoboPatch::openIn
        Opening firmware zip 'src/kobo-update-4.45.23697.zip'
        Looking for KoboRoot.tgz in zip
        --> found KoboRoot.tgz
        -->    opening KoboRoot.tgz
        Opening gzip reader
        Creating tar reader
    patching entry name:'./usr/local/Kobo/libnickel.so.1.0.0' size:24249260 mode:'509' typeflag:'48' with files: src/libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml, src/cloud_sync.yaml
        reading entry contents
        loading patch file 'src/libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml' (detected format kobopatch)
          | parsing patch file: unmarshaling to map[string]yaml.Node
        --> could not parse patch file: yaml: unmarshal errors:
  line 1467: mapping key "Disable forwards/backwards swipes" already defined at line 1455

Did you grab the patches for firmware 4.38.23697 and change the firmware number to 4.45.23697? if you did, that's why it's not working. The new patches most likely won't work on 4.45.23697. There are these patches for the new firmware which I'll be adding in soon.

[Liesse]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Did you grab the patches for firmware 4.38.23697 and change the firmware number to 4.45.23697? if you did, that's why it's not working. The new patches most likely won't work on 4.45.23697. There are these patches for the new firmware which I'll be adding in soon.

Ah. Yes. Probably. The two firmware threads has obviously confused me and I ws excited to have the feature working.

So both page buttons go next isn't ready for the latest firmware just yet?

I am now single button forwards only. How pedestrian. Still, is my own fault.

[JSWolf]

I've updated the patches to fix an error. Should be good to go now with the new patches.