What about samsung e60

[Miles Prower]

I tried the corean firmware too, but still did not graps what the News section was for.

What's preventing me from using it is that it does not support accented characters at all.*Meaning that each time a book would use a é / à /*ç /*… / etc. nothing would be displayed at all (ie.*« Télévision » would become « Tlvision »).*It's quite impossible to read french books then.

[goth1k]

I guess this is aimed at you Miles, but is the CFW as far as us end users can go with the E60 atm? Because I have tried to keep up with goings on over at xooit and hardware.fr, but those guys might as well be talking some other language (apart from French or English) because they are talking about installing binaries ( I know these are programs/apps) onto the reader and all sorts, but I can't make head or tail of it.

I've managed to get into the root of the reader btw using Telnet, but I can't do anything with it, is that just for the professionals or is there more we can do?

I would appreciate it if you could explain any more development we can look forward to regarding this secretive reader?

Sorry for the essay and thanks for the CFW, top job.

Regards

[Miles Prower]

Well, most of the firmware is actually contained in a closed-source binary blob (MainApp).*It's quite hard and close to impossible to work on it, and Samsung won't help - it contains all the DRM-related stuff and that's not something everyone should be able to edit.

So basically there's a basic distro running on it and supporting stuff such as displaying PNG, managing Wifi, or listening to music.*Everything else is inside this single MainApp blob, meaning there's no way to edit the interface, the music front-end, the fonts used in the eBooks section, or the Library management (ie.*ability to create subfolders). Even the display itself and the touch screen are totally handled by this MainApp.

I can't really do much more than what actually made it into Foxfirmware.*I'm not a developer, my knowledge of programming languages is pretty limited as well as my ability to create alternatives to what Samsung published.

Telnet will allow you to remotely connect to the E60 and run your own scripts in the Linux environment, using Bash.*It's then up to you.*You can browse around the filesystem, copy files, edit them providing they are not in the read-only fs, or even run stuff such as "mplayer [url]" to listen to online music if your device's wifi is enabled.

The guys over at hardware.fr (and http://code.google.com/p/e60-open/ ) are trying to completely remove MainApp and rebuild a whole custom system. This will take time, but allow for far greater customization.*Right now, the hard part is creating a driver to handle the e-ink screen correctly. But afterwards, maybe we could get something like OpenInkpot running on the device.

[Bazzer]

Final way of getting everthing functioning apart from dictonary.
Sync E60 and Backup all books using Calibre.
Format thru computer main and Micro SD memory 32bit/2048. So they are now clean. Copy or create Firmware_Update Dir on main memory then put your Firmware you want to use in Directory. (Example E60FR-CP.bin)
Unplug from computer depower and repower while holding up volume as well (As shown in early forum postings) let it come up with firmware loaded and take battery out and repower. Then go into E60 menu with pen:-
1) Settings/Support/Reset/Delete All Data.(Will reset to Korean or French)
2) Then do Reset to Default Settings.
3) All Language set to your language. (French English etc.)
4) Set Start up mode to Home. From default of Last Mode. (This stops unit locking up when Dictonary is gone into. You can just hold power down when lockup. It will not keep cycling in lockup mode.
5) Then sync with Calibra and reload Books onto E60. This gets a clean install and all covers showing without opening each book.
The newspaper section on Korean Firmware seems to be for newspapers and it deletes them when next days newspaper loaded.
I have tried to put calibra newspaper in Scrap file but no joy yet.

[sck]

Hi folks, I just got my hands on a used E65 (basically an E60 with a keyboard) copied some pdfs on the memory card (no DRM, they're university lectures) but they don't show up in the Books menu, also copied some pdf books with calibre (again, no DRM) and they don't show up either, does anyone have a clue?

[dogsballs]

i think you have to create a books folder on your memory card

[Luxmark]

Hi,
thanks a lot for all your work to develop a custom firmware better than the original.
I have a E-60 with 1003 italian Firmware, I tried to install your custom firmware because I'm interesting to web navigation but when I choose firmware directory the device tell me that not exist a new firmware to load.
Why?
I have to change file name? Or I have to change sign?

Thank you and excuse my poor english...I'm italian...

Bye

MrK

[Bazzer]

I found renaming firmware to SNE-60.bin and putting in firmware update folder.Then depowering and repower holding up volume and it will load new firmware. (Read earler forum pages)
Also loading onto micro SD card is a a black art. Sometimes the reader syncs sometimes it does not. I found you need to load books directly into books folder not into sub folder example:-

Right way:-

Micro SD Card/Books/EBOOK.

Wrong way:-
Micro SD Card/Books/News/EBOOK.

I found it will sync better.

Have phoned Samsung UK and got through OK. They are going to put UK firmware on Web page so it can be reloaded. We will see.

[Bazzer]

Just loaded moded E60FR-CP.bin everything ok but when loading Web page thru book store. After loading password etc. Get page "Internal Server Error" The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your reqrest. Please contact the server administrator,postmaster@ereader.aymerick.fr.

[Bazzer]

Web working again after 5 days not working?. Not done anything just started working. Anyway trying to download ebook from this website but will not bring up save to device? Anyone got ideas about this.

[KZemunski]

I just bought the E60 in Carrefour (France) for 99E. How do I get it for 49E?
Was it just something Samsung came up with in January here in France?
Any hints appreciated, as I just found this out by reading this thread...

[Barpat]

There was an ODR by samsung.

http://www.samsung.com/fr/promos/?pi...promo_20091104

Here, it is closed

Also for someone in france wo wants Micro Sd, there is this ODR offer by sandisk and orange.

http://img806.imageshack.us/i/scanimage02.jpg/

http://img823.imageshack.us/i/scanimage01.jpg/

[lerovitch]

Hi,

I've got the Korean version of the E65 Samsung's eReader.

I would like to install an updated firmware with support for stress characters (for the spanish language).

I've already downloaded it from opensource.samsung.com, but when trying to install it on the device it says "No File found"

I think it's a thing of the magic number to be written at the beginning of the file.

Does anybody know the correct magic number for the SNE-E65.bin of the korean version? I've seen above the one for the SNE-E60.bin but it might not be the same

[Barpat]

you have this, in france somone have formated an E60 to reinstall the systeme. It is quite risky.

Comment j'ai sauvé mon E60 grâce à majax 2001

Si vous avez suivi mes déboires avec ma liseuse sachez que j'ai pu la débricker très facilement (après bien des échanges avec certains d'entre vous que je remercie chaleureusement) .
Tout d'abord je tiens à préciser que je suis sous Linux et plus particulièrement sous (x)ubuntu (pour ceux qui sont sous d'autres distros, "sudo" c'est se mettre en root sans passer par "su" )
Voici donc le message de majax 2011 qui fût le sésame pour moi :

finalement, après mûre réflexion, (la nuit porte conseil) je ne suis pas sûr que le formatage soit une bonne idée. En revanche, ayant utilisé la commande dd pour sauvegarder, puis restaurer après formatage, une partition Windows, je pense que c'est la meilleure solution. La sauvegarde d'un disque de 4,4 Go avait demandé 5 min sous Suse 9.0 et sa restauration 17min 50s.

Sauvegarde : il faut presque 2 Go pour stocker le fichier.
- branche un E60 sain sur le PC en mode USB et attends qu'il soit monté ;
- mount (pour repérer l'adresse : je la note sdb, b est à remplacer éventuellement par la bonne lettre)
- cd (ou autre répertoire d'une partition avec au moins 2 Go disponibles)
- sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=home.bin (home.bin est le nom du fichier destination)
J'ai effectué cette commande : au bout de moins de 5 min, l'opération est terminée : la commande affiche le nombre d'enregistrements lus et le nombre d'enregistrements écrits et on a un fichier home.bin de 1876426752 octets, copie conforme, octet par octet de la totalité la partition. Je garde précieusement ce fichier au cas où. . .

Restauration :
- débranche le bon E60 et branche ton E60 ;
- mount (il vaut mieux revérifier. . .)
- sudo umount /dev/sdb (je ne suis pas sûr que cela soit nécessaire)
- sudo dd if=home.bin of=/dev/sdb
Là, je n'ai pas testé, mais c'est sans doute plus long.

Cette dernière commande est très dangereuse, il faut vraiment être sûr qu'on ne s'est pas trompé dans l'argument de of= (OutputFile), car les octets sont recopiés sur le périphérique désigné en écrasant (restaurant

) tout, FAT, répertoires et fichiers.

majax 2001 le 19/02/2011 à 12h13 (page 71)

Il se trouve que j'ai pu acheter le dernier E60 qu restait au carouf local pour 49€ et j'ai appliqué presque à la lettre la recette . N'ayant pas de partition FAT, j'ai partionner une clé USB de 2Giga en FAT32 et j'y ai collé le fichier "home.bin" depuis le E60 neuf .
Ensuite : -cd /dev/sdc (ma clé usb était montée en sdc et leE60 en sdb , je m'en suis assuré en allant dans gparted)
-sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=home.bin

Edit :

cd /media/[nom de la clé] (disk-1 chez moi)
sudo dd if=home.bin of=/dev/sdb (sdb ou sdc ou sdd ou ... à voir avec gparted)

Je suis en train d'uploader sur 9giga ce fichier "home.bin" contactez moi par MP si vous le voulez, sinon pour ceux qui ont un compte megaupload premium il est dispo ici : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GROA02RL

Afin d'éviter tous déboires n'utilisez pas Calibre pour transférer vos ebooks (préférez votre navigateur de fichier) et ne tentez pas de vider la poubelle .

voili voilou

[Petrossi]

Originally Posted by Luxmark

I have a E-60 with 1003 italian Firmware,
....
I have to change file name? Or I have to change sign?

E60IT-SC.bin