Onyx Boox Kon-Tiki 2 (Nova3 platform) - apps

[Renate]

Do you want to replace it or eliminate it?
If you eliminate it there will be no short/long stuff.

You can replace it by 1) asking Onyx nicely for their secret signing credentials, 2) resigning your entire system.

You can remove it by the previous methods or 3) silly zip corruptions, 4) modifying framework.jar

[mergen3107]

I just wanted to get those numpad keys back.

Can you please send instructions about framework.jar you did before for buttons in another thread?

Meanwhile I’ll ask Onyx support.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by mergen3107

Meanwhile I’ll ask Onyx support.

I was just kidding about #1.

Post your framework.jar and I'll fix it.

[mergen3107]

I asked them to remove those hijacks or at least make them user configurable.

Thank you! I’ll send you the jar a little later.

[mergen3107]

@Renate
Did you receive my PM with the jar file?

[Renate]

Originally Posted by mergen3107

@Renate
Did you receive my PM with the jar file?

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[mergen3107]

@Renate

Thank you so much!!! The Onyx hijack is no longer present. Keyboard works as generic as possible. F1-F12 keys as well as numpad 1-4 keys are back!!

Now, do you have an idea how to invoke those commands manually?

For example,

    {
      "keySet": [
        "KEYCODE_F4"
      ],
      "shortPressAction": "fullRefreshScreen",
      "longPressAction": "",
      "repeat": false
    },

How to manually refresh the screen from the command line? I might rebind some of those actions to other keys

[mergen3107]

To recap, before we found those actions:

# Call Home:
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -c android.intent.category.HOME
am start -n org.ds.simple.ink.launcher/.LauncherMainActivity

# close the notifications:
am broadcast -a android.intent.action.CLOSE_SYSTEM_DIALOGS

# show contrast dialog:
am broadcast -a com.onyx.action.show.contrast.dialog

# show brightness dialog:
# (for Button Mapper: Advanced - Broadcast intent - Action, input only the action itself)
am broadcast -a action.show.brightness.dialog

# manual brightness control (change system settings, n = 0-255)
settings put system screen_warm_brightness n
settings put system screen_cold_brightness n

# ("toggle" brightness, n = 1/0)
settings put system warm_brightness_state_key n
settings put system cold_brightness_state_key n

[mergen3107]

I found this post, but there is no refresh:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...95&postcount=2

[mergen3107]

I found the answer! Thanks again Renate! https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...0&postcount=16

[Renate]

Well, those are Intents.
I haven't investigated if any keys do that without the mapping inside keypad.json (and friends).

framework.jar is the Achilles heel of Android. It's unsigned and you can modify it any way you like.
Unfortunately the old apktool 2.6.2 coudln't take apart Humpty-Dumpty and put him back together again.
That's why I implemented my kpatch which does non-invasive microsurgery on H-D.
The new apktool 2.7.0 appears to have fixed some things, but I haven't yet confirmed error-free processing yet.
When/if I do that it will be possible to do larger modifications to key handling.

[mergen3107]

Thank you for the details! I might experiment with the apktool (and edl as a backup) if you show me an example of the mod.

For yhe keys, I am going to use my dear Button Mapper to map keyboard keys to firing up intents. I already do so the Back button long press to fire up the brightness dialog.

It works even over the PIN code screen, contrary to firing up an app like GentleGlow.

[mergen3107]

So my use case for that is editing tables and composing pieces of literature on the Onyx Boox in iA Writer. So it resembles a typewriter a lot, with the “screen refresh” reminding me of the “caret return” in the typewriter

[Renate]

Originally Posted by mergen3107

... reminding me of the “caret return” in the typewriter

Or do you mean "carrot return"?

[mergen3107]

Oh, yes, sorry - carriage return it is