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Old 07-31-2007, 10:28 AM   #151
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You guys are lucky!

I did a couple of flashes from the SD card (interspersed with a couple of flashes over USB with the original firmware). And all of the sudden I started getting "stat_fs not found", although the files were still there. Flashing the original firmware didn't help, and neither did copying of the universal flasher back and forth to the card. All in all, I made the image that I wanted and flashed it via cable, but totally lost the adventurous spirit

DiabloNL, you experienced the problem. What was it that solved it for you?

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Did you try the "ten times reset" method he described? Far as I could tell that was how he solved this.


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That's a really good idea.
I thought of it while I was at the airport, put my reader in my pocket, and of course forgot to hit the power switch before doing so, so the Reader was on a page flipping spree when I took it back out. I got back to my page using history tho. I was thinking about applying the joystick pageturn mod, but don't want to lose the history function for instances like that.
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Old 07-31-2007, 10:33 AM   #152
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What someone else did was just modify the joystick forward to go forward a page and left the joystick back to go back in history.
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Old 07-31-2007, 11:26 AM   #153
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You guys are lucky!

I did a couple of flashes from the SD card (interspersed with a couple of flashes over USB with the original firmware). And all of the sudden I started getting "stat_fs not found", although the files were still there. Flashing the original firmware didn't help, and neither did copying of the universal flasher back and forth to the card. All in all, I made the image that I wanted and flashed it via cable, but totally lost the adventurous spirit

DiabloNL, you experienced the problem. What was it that solved it for you?

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What solved it was the newer version of the flasher from Igor. The first version worked only on the previous version of the Reader firmware and gave the stat_fs error on the upgraded Reader firmware. Do you have the newest Reader firmware or the old?
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Old 07-31-2007, 12:38 PM   #154
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Any chance of getting the files for that mod on here JSWolf?

I looked at the files myself and the wiki entry on hacking the Reader, but, frankly, couldn't make heads from tails, and don't want to experiment and brick the Reader.

If anyone could post the joystick mode that has: Right - Page Forward and Left - History, I would be very thankful.
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Old 07-31-2007, 09:00 PM   #155
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Since the new firmware is out, can anyone here give any tips for using the universal flasher method to update my reader? (No Windows here.)
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Old 07-31-2007, 09:09 PM   #156
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Since the new firmware is out, can anyone here give any tips for using the universal flasher method to update my reader? (No Windows here.)
I cannot say this will work, but if it does not work, it won't be a problem as it won't work at all.

The exe for the newest firmware is just a ZIP file. Unzip it keeping the directory structure to the root of the SD card. Then inster the SD card into the Reader while the reader is off, turn on the reader and follow the menu.
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Old 07-31-2007, 09:15 PM   #157
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igorsk, are you going to make a version of the universal flasher for the new firmware?

P.S. I just tried the flasher and guess what? it works with the newest firmware! Hot damn!
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OK so I have a question. I updated my Reader with the Universal Flasher to fix the battery bug sometime ago, and to add the clock to the bar at the bottom. I'd like to now flash to the newest firmware released by Sony today. Is there a problem just using Sony's updater, or do I need to do something funky?

Also, will the *unofficial* battery fix be overwritten by Sony's new firmware (hoping so, since I'd prefer an official Sony fix).

Thanks in advance.
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Old 07-31-2007, 11:15 PM   #159
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My main concern now with the flasher, is I think that the flasher might overwrite the battery fix in the Sony Update
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Old 07-31-2007, 11:21 PM   #160
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My main concern now with the flasher, is I think that the flasher might overwrite the battery fix in the Sony Update
I'll tell you what happens once my battery meter shows less then all full and I give the reader a charge.
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My main concern now with the flasher, is I think that the flasher might overwrite the battery fix in the Sony Update
Doesn't using the official Sony update overwrite everything in the Universal Flasher?
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Old 07-31-2007, 11:29 PM   #162
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Doesn't using the official Sony update overwrite everything in the Universal Flasher?
Everything you've updated with your Sony yes. But I was able to use it to put it all back.
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Old 08-01-2007, 03:53 AM   #163
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What solved it was the newer version of the flasher from Igor. The first version worked only on the previous version of the Reader firmware and gave the stat_fs error on the upgraded Reader firmware. Do you have the newest Reader firmware or the old?
When I tried it I had the firmware numbers.numbers.01300 and it worked a couple of times, so I suppose that means I was using the right version of flasher. I also did the "10 times reset", the reader is still not in the mood for flashing via sd card. Maybe it's the sd card that's faulty...

But it doesn't really bother me that I can only flash via cable, I have all that I wanted on it and am happy with that...
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When I tried it I had the firmware numbers.numbers.01300 and it worked a couple of times, so I suppose that means I was using the right version of flasher. I also did the "10 times reset", the reader is still not in the mood for flashing via sd card. Maybe it's the sd card that's faulty...

But it doesn't really bother me that I can only flash via cable, I have all that I wanted on it and am happy with that...
Could indeed be the SD card. I don't know if you have too many books on the internal memory if it could give that error. Maybe Igor knows.
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Old 08-01-2007, 11:21 AM   #165
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I have one doubt about this flasher. I want to flash the last sony firmware to get the battery fix, but I also want the clock (really neat). I know the flasher works with the last firmware, but, I don't know if the flasher acts as an incremental update on top of what it reads from the unit, or if the zip already contains the full image to be flashed (and thus will overwrite the last update until the flasher itself is updated).

Can someone clarify? Thanks...

BTW it would be great if the flasher incorporated the "left-history / right-turnpage" mod...

Thanks to everyone involved with these mods, in any case!
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