Instructions for patching firmware 4.19.14123

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Would there be someway to kill nickel and restart it so the new font weight value can be read without having to reboot?

Yes, but you might as well reboot. It takes the same amount of time for nickel to restart. Unless you'd rather I introduce a segfault for the close button of the advanced font settings ?

[JSWolf]

I was thinking that the reason the bug in Advanced Font Controls with ePub wasn't found is that the fonts already loaded have been adjusted already.

[peejayw]

When I run the kobopatch.bat file, a command prompt window opens briefly and closes, too fast to see what it says.
There is no Koboroot.tgz in the Out folder but there is a log.txt file written there.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

[codychan]

Originally Posted by peejayw

When I run the kobopatch.bat file, a command prompt window opens briefly and closes, too fast to see what it says.
There is no Koboroot.tgz in the Out folder but there is a log.txt file written there.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

Read the log.txt
1. Enabled two or more items which are conflicted with each other at the same time
2. Indent issue, notice the numbers of spaces at the beginning of the lines
3. typo?

[peejayw]

Originally Posted by codychan

Read the log.txt
1. Enabled two or more items which are conflicted with each other at the same time

Found it, thanks.

[Jonitxo]

Hello. This patches works on Kobo libra H20?
Thanx for you support

[forster01]

it's working if you download libra software.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Jonitxo

Hello. This patches works on Kobo libra H20?
Thanx for you support

Yes, these patches will work on a Kobo Libra H2O.

[Jonitxo]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Yes, these patches will work on a Kobo Libra H2O.

Thanx for your answer!!

[Hendo]

Hi,

Just found out about the existence of this forum and the kobo patch files. Absolutely amazed at the hard work you all put in to make these patches possible.

I've had my H20 for a few years, very happy with it. I usually dont have wifi on so almost never update firmware. Yesterday I updated to the latest and really didn't like the new header/footer style with the title included (also didn't like the wasted space)

Very happy to find these patches and I have managed to figure out how to enable the bits that I want and all is perfect so far thank you

I have one question regarding the ability to remove capitals on "xx OF xxx" that you can display for book progress.
I have that working fine but I would also like the ability to add additional text to the string ie. "Page xx of xxx" When I try to add the "Page" text then the patch .bat bombs out, I assume it is looking for the string length.

Is there any way that I can do that?

Thanks for the fantastic work and any help you can give

[Hendo]

Update: for clarification, this is when trying to use the below patch:

Custom header/footer page number text:
- Enabled: no
- PatchGroup: Header/footer page number text
- Description: Changes the page number text format in the reading header & footer
- FindReplaceString: {Find: "%1 OF %2", Replace: "%1 / %2"}

I would like to have [Replace: "Page %1 of %2"]


I also have a question for jackie_w, when using part #2 of your scrubber text properties patch for the Page X of Y label. I cannot get it to capitalize the word 'page'. I can lowercase it all, uppcase it all but that's all. I have seen your screenshot displaying the text how I would like it. (#2 in this post) https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...74&postcount=3 But have no iodea how you managed it. Maybe the latest firmware defaults to all caps?

Any help on how to achieve this greatly appreciated

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Hendo

I also have a question for jackie_w, when using part #2 of your scrubber text properties patch for the Page X of Y label. I cannot get it to capitalize the word 'page'. I can lowercase it all, uppcase it all but that's all. I have seen your screenshot displaying the text how I would like it. (#2 in this post) https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...74&postcount=3 But have no iodea how you managed it. Maybe the latest firmware defaults to all caps?

Patch Custom page navigation scrubber in nickel.yaml has a section 2b. which is commented out by default.

        # 2b. Customise other font properties of 'Page x of y' label (all models)
        #     e.g. text-transform (uppercase or none)
        #          font-family, font-weight, font-style, etc.
        # Un-comment next 2 lines and change Replace CSS as desired
        #- Find:    "#page {\n  padding-left: 0px;\n}"
        #  Replace: "#page {padding-left: 0px; font-family:Georgia; text-transform:none;}"

Un-comment the last 2 lines and use the 2nd to change styling as required, specifically the text-transform style.

It works in tandem with patch Custom navigation menu page number text in libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml which can be used to adjust the 'Page x of y' text in the scrubber only.

Originally Posted by Hendo

Update: for clarification, this is when trying to use the below patch:

I would like to have [Replace: "Page %1 of %2"]

You probably need geek1011 to explain this better than I can but there are limitations on freedom to patch libnickel.so.1.0.0 because there are always code length considerations. Usually you can make patched text strings shorter (and add padding) but you can't make them longer than the original.

Patches in nickel.yaml have more freedom to expand/contract the original.

[Semwize]

Originally Posted by Hendo

Page %1 of %2

Extract KoboRoot.tgz from the archive and place it in the .kobo folder. After rebooting the device, change the language to de (Deutsch).



unpack.zip

[Hendo]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Patch Custom page navigation scrubber in nickel.yaml has a section 2b. which is commented out by default.

Un-comment the last 2 lines and use the 2nd to change styling as required, specifically the text-transform style.

It works in tandem with patch Custom navigation menu page number text in libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml which can be used to adjust the 'Page x of y' text in the scrubber only.

I already managed to get the patch to work and can fiddle around with the last two lines. I didn't realise about it working alongside the other patch which defines the text (I was wondering how it was set). I'll give it a try tomorrow.

Thanks for the help

[Hendo]

All working, Semwize recommended "text-transform:none" which did the trick

Now I just need to make the normal footer go back to the old 'Page x of y' and the OCD will be fully satisfied