Firmware 3.8.0 released

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Nick_1964

In practice, I always select/highlight some words when I use the feature,that allso activated the dictionary.. ( on the Glo, on my Aura HD it works better,but that is because of the screensize. )

For me, if I have my finger half on the bezel and half on the screen, it works beautifully.

I'm really enamored with the idea.

Also, upon ejecting from calibre, I notice that the light automatically comes back on.

I'm quite happy with the update.

[patrik]

Not sure if I do something wrong here, but when I can change the light with the finger, it's always "easy" (finger to the very left, touching the bezel). But sometimes it never seems to work, however I do it.

Guessing here, but I would estimate it works about 1 out of every 5 times. (I read, close the cover, open, read, etc.)

Strange but no biggie. The old way to change the light always work.

[Risto40]

is this a common issue, that since the firmware 3.5 the Kobo Glo has become VERY slow, or only I have the problem? On the front page, taping on one or another book, to open it, it recognizes my tap after waiting for approx. 1 minute. And when a pdf book is open, then to turn page, I must wait approx 20 sec until page turns.
The fw 3.8 did not fix the issue.

[icallaci]

I took the plunge (so to speak), and upgraded from 3.1.1 to 3.8.0 on my Aura HD to prepare for my new H20. I'm finding 3.8.0 very stable--I've not had a single double page turn in 120+ pages, and I used to get them every 10 pages or so. Response time is fast, the light control swipe is great, and in general I am very happy with this firmware. Nice job.

[Nick_1964]

Originally Posted by patrik

Not sure if I do something wrong here, but when I can change the light with the finger, it's always "easy" (finger to the very left, touching the bezel). But sometimes it never seems to work, however I do it.

Guessing here, but I would estimate it works about 1 out of every 5 times. (I read, close the cover, open, read, etc.)

Strange but no biggie. The old way to change the light always work.

I have the same..and like I said, sometimes I select all the words,it opens the dictionary,or it changes the page when you touch it and shake a bit with your finger.. it is a nice feature but it often takes me more time then just touch the top of the page,and change the light setting the old way,then I am sure I didn't make highlights or open dictionary,or turn several pages back.
In general, I set the light once and don't change at all,but it is a new feature so I play with it, on the Aura HD it works perfect,maybe my fingers are to big for the Glo or I shake a bit to much with my hand,there are so much other things to fix and in stead of doing that,they add something that I am not able to use,just put my hand or finger on the bezel doesn't work so good because of the sleepcover to... and yesterday when I want to go a page back to look into something, I changed the light by accident but there are no settings to enable or disable the feature, and when I tried to put it back at the old setting, I highlighted some words again,ending at,press on top,press the light,use the slider..then I can set it at 9 to.. with the "finger feature" there is no bar showing the value,so often I just have to go to the old feature just to put it back on the right value..this only happens to me when I use the Glo..with the Aura HD I have no troubles but that one is downstairs for the daytime readings.. it's nice but it was not on any point of my top 10..

[arspr]

Originally Posted by Risto40

is this a common issue, that since the firmware 3.5 the Kobo Glo has become VERY slow, or only I have the problem? On the front page, taping on one or another book, to open it, it recognizes my tap after waiting for approx. 1 minute. And when a pdf book is open, then to turn page, I must wait approx 20 sec until page turns.
The fw 3.8 did not fix the issue.

There have been some reports about it (example here). But I cannot replicate that slow behaviour.

[fxp33]

Hi,

About a slow behavior... a complete reconstruction of the database through calibre fixed my problem (I think ticking the "upload cover" might have helped)... but definitely, above 7000 books, the aura HD really is getting slower, no matter what

Regards

François

[Nick_1964]

Originally Posted by fxp33

Hi,

About a slow behavior... a complete reconstruction of the database through calibre fixed my problem (I think ticking the "upload cover" might have helped)... but definitely, above 7000 books, the aura HD really is getting slower, no matter what

Regards

François

Hmm.. have to digg in deeper in Calibre about how to reconstuct the database and if it is needed..and I don't know if and what upload cover does...the Dutch translation isn't to clear about this options.. but on the other hand "if it isn't broken then don't fix it" is more on its place ?
I have more then 7000 books, but I never tried to get them on both readers..I keep them in calibre but once in a while I remove the books I finished from the reader and add new ones on it,keeping the actual amount of books under the 50... I do notice that both Glo and Aura HD sometimes don't react on swiping or tipping and that I must keep my winger on the right side of the screen for a wile to "force" it to go to the next page,then it go's back to smoothly until it happens again,it appears to be random, but that behaviour is there even before 3.3.0 and I can't see what is triggering it..

[randomzombie]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

Is anyone seeing a problem with the light setting in 3.8.0?

I successfully sideloaded the 3.8.0 firmware onto my Aura HD. Haven't had a hiccup yet, except for the feature that lets you change the light intensity by sliding your finger up and down the left of the screen. I keep waking the device up from sleep to find the light has reset to just 2%.

I'm not aware of anything I'm doing to drop it down — I turn pages usually with a tap, not a swipe, and either the light is at its usual intensity when I manually put the device to sleep, or I fall asleep and the device puts itself to bed. Either way, there aren't any movements that, as far as I can tell, could be interpreted as a downward left-side swipe. Besides, each time it awakes at the same setting of 2%. You'd think, if this were happening accidentally, that figure would vary.

I've also noticed that the increase of light when you ramp it up isn't on even increments -- around 28%, it suddenly leaps to a considerably brighter level. I don't remember having seen that happen under previous firmware, and my impression is that it's new behaviour.

But for the light intensity slider, I wish there was a way to turn it off. I'd prefer it, when Kobo implements optional behaviour like this, that there would also be a way to disable it.

It's always been that way for me - I'm still at 3.3.1? Don't remember exactly which. December or January. Also skips 29% altogether. But yeah - I was kinda perturbed by the jump in brightness as there'd been situations where I'd wanted a level in between...

[Nick_1964]

With both Aura HD and Glo I noticed that after sleep, the light is reset to 2%, I did used the patch for the light (Brightness fine control) but it just go back randomly to 2% , I do opt-in for a feature to disable the finger control of the light,or maybe it can patched not to work ?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Nick_1964

With both Aura HD and Glo I noticed that after sleep, the light is reset to 2%, I did used the patch for the light (Brightness fine control) but it just go back randomly to 2% , I do opt-in for a feature to disable the finger control of the light,or maybe it can patched not to work ?

I haven't seen that. The only issue I had with the light under 3.8.0 was that it didn't turn on if the level was set to 1%. I would suggest removing the patch and seeing what happens. If you still see this happening, it is the firmware. If it doesn't, then it is something in the patch.

[Nick_1964]

Originally Posted by davidfor

I haven't seen that. The only issue I had with the light under 3.8.0 was that it didn't turn on if the level was set to 1%. I would suggest removing the patch and seeing what happens. If you still see this happening, it is the firmware. If it doesn't, then it is something in the patch.

It already happened before the patch too,that is why I enable the patch in the hope it would be gone.. it happens more on the Glo with me,I can't confirm my "feeling" but the Aura HD is now on 33 % brightness and it don't drop to 2 %, but in the bedroom I use the Glo, 33% is way to much so I lowered that one to 10,and then it happens frequently that when I turn it on after it went in sleep mode,no matter if I use the power switch or the sleepcover, it is on 2 %.
It always is 2% so my feeling says that when you use the setting like 10% it drops, but if set to higher,it don't.
But I can't say that 10% is the "trigger" maybe it also happens at 15% or at 9 % and I don't use the device every night so maybe it doesn't change when you use the device more frequently.
A lot of "maybe's here" I can't see a pattern or a way to trigger it,but I do can tell that it always drops to 2%, not 1,or 3..

[arspr]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

I've also noticed that the increase of light when you ramp it up isn't on even increments -- around 28%, it suddenly leaps to a considerably brighter level. I don't remember having seen that happen under previous firmware, and my impression is that it's new behaviour.

In my HD there's a clear jump between 30% and 31%, but it's not anything that bothers me. In fact I have it set at 31% continuously and it's a perfect setting no matter how much light there is in the ambience, from direct sunlight to a dim lamp beside my bed. (I never read in a completely dark room).

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by randomzombie

It's always been that way for me - I'm still at 3.3.1? Don't remember exactly which. December or January. Also skips 29% altogether. But yeah - I was kinda perturbed by the jump in brightness as there'd been situations where I'd wanted a level in between...

One day after complaining again about the 29% light level missing, I started from 1% and incremented by 1% each tap. The oddities I noted:

1% ... 27% 28% 28% 30% ... 55% 56% 56% 57% 59% ... 100%

Hmmm... 28 is half of 56.

Regards,
David

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

I've also noticed that the increase of light when you ramp it up isn't on even increments -- around 28%, it suddenly leaps to a considerably brighter level. I don't remember having seen that happen under previous firmware, and my impression is that it's new behaviour.

Originally Posted by randomzombie

It's always been that way for me - I'm still at 3.3.1? Don't remember exactly which. December or January. Also skips 29% altogether. But yeah - I was kinda perturbed by the jump in brightness as there'd been situations where I'd wanted a level in between...

Yes, that was why I asked about it — I'd prefer a setting somewhere in the span of brightness that is jumped. I seemed to be able to get it on the previous firmware — 3.3.0, I think? Also, without the new screen-based slider that is misbehaving (for me), I didn't have to reset the light level once it was set. I just used the horizontal slider activated by tapping the light setting at the top of the screen, and it stayed as was unless I went into that setting again. That doesn't happen now. And speaking of that horizontal slider, it seemed more responsive and even on the previous firmware — now, it seems a bit twitchy and to jump around in chunks.

As I said before, I'd like to turn the vertical light settings slider off completely. I have no need or use for it, and find it quite annoying that it resets my light setting to 2% if I simply tap anywhere on the left side of the screen next to the bevel, or even move my finger within the range of the IR sensors — hence my new need to reset the light setting frequently.

It's not even a matter of tapping in the bottom left corner, at a place that would seem to correspond to 2%, that makes it reset so low. I've tried tapping at a height that would represent somewhere around 30%, but it still resets to 2%. And this is with a single tap, not a swipe.