possible release of new firmware

[jackastor]

Originally Posted by murg

We should start a pool as to when the first 'where's the link to new firmware' request appears...

I've got 8 days before it's released...

Does the winner of the pool get a Brand spanking new Kindle?

regards

Jack

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by jackastor

Does the winner of the pool get a Brand spanking new Kindle?

Perhaps a slightly used Hanvon C18?

Regards,
David

[Leonatus]

Originally Posted by TechniSol

There is something up with 3.2.0 I ran into the other night that is preventing me from opening an epub(side loaded) on my Glo, yet the same epub works fine on my Touch running 3.0.0... The epub, while messy, passes through Sigil with no errors in FlightCrew, but will not open on the Glo past the cover page. Attempting to turn the page invariably closes the epub and displays the thumbnail cover as finished. I've deleted it a number of times, even deleting the entire collection it is assigned to, rebooted between deleting and replacing it, manually set the title as unread and also tried it with the Kobo Plugin for Calibre and even signed out on the Glo and let it rebuild the database.

I had something similar a year ago or so with an ebook that I had purchased at Gutenberg. Of course, I formatted it at my convenience, no problems in Sigil. But then happened more or or less the same that you are reporting. System breakdown at page turn and so on. I even made a factory reset, but no effect. At last, I decided to delete the book entirely, fetch it again at Gutenberg and format it once more. This time it worked, but still having no idea what had been the point.

[TechniSol]

I appreciate the suggestions and offers of help -I may take you up on that eventually David.

Well, I fished out the AAA battery powered booklight and finished the book on the Touch, and have moved on as it's part of a series.(I love my Glo, but the Touch with a good external light does provide greater contrast, shame the light is such a pain and adds weight) If I get bored maybe I'll dig into it just to see why. It bothers me that it passed in Sigil, but still didn't work on the Glo... I really don't want to play html boy and diddle through it to see where the problem exists. OTOH it is split into 4 parts so maybe I'll import them separately into sigil in empty shells and see what happens with the individual parts output as separate books... Could be something stupid like the TOC being screwed in a way that Sigil & FlightCrew & the Calibre Viewer are "smart" enough to ignore as the Calibre Viewer only shows START on the TOC.

Having programmed for 30+ years and tinkered with electronics from the component level up longer it really bugs me when something hiccups and gives the user no reason why. I really hate being treated like a mushroom, and I'm intrigued by why it works on 3.0.0 on the Touch and not on 3.2.0 on the Glo -just not enough to roll the Glo back to 3.0.0 to see.(Only around 350 books, but it still takes two forevers) But I might be tempted to upgrade the Touch N905B... Probably more tempted after I check the rest of the titles in the series to make sure they all work on 3.2.0 ;-)

[davidfor]

After opening it in Sigil and checking, did you save it? Sigil parses and internally rewrites the code when an epub is opened. Something like the problem I mentioned would be fixed by this and not seen when you look at in Sigil. If you didn't save the file, you would still be using the old version. I have had a few problematic epubs that opening in Sigil and saving fixed the problems.

[TechniSol]

Yes, I saved it. Really odd. It was late the other night when I looked at it, but looking again it seems that the epub was pieced together for some reason because part of it has calibre codes and some of it is double spaced between paragraphs. In light of this, it's not fair to be too upset at Kobo, despite the file working in 3.0.0 on the Touch, but it is a little odd...

More when I find time to diddle with it. Maybe this weekend.

Is there any other validation or cleanup tool anyone might recommend I download?

[davidfor]

I just use Sigil. If the source epub is really bad, I might run a conversion in calibre. That can sometime clean it up and make it easier to fix. But, usually I just use Sigil and lots of regex. And I'm using Sigil rather than the calibre editor mainly out of habit. The calibre editor is handy as it doesn't fiddle with the code when it opens.

I do have epubcheck, but I only use it when I am debugging a problem like this. That usually means someone sent me a book that wasn't working and I did the check before fiddling with the file.

[Sharkus]

Originally Posted by jackastor

Well the kobo iPhone app updated last night.
It now allows themes for the background.

So that's the start I wonder where this will end up?

regards

Jack

Yup, I pressed the big green button for the iOS app a few days ago. That reminds me, I need to update the iOS thread in here.

It should be noted that just because the iOS app rolls out a release, it does not mean a release of any of our other software is imminent. Different teams have different release cycles. In addition, a certain feature appearing on a specific platform does not always indicate that functionality will make it to other platforms. The Home / Library themes and reading themes in the new iOS app might not make too much sense on an eInk screen.

[paxmark1]

Originally Posted by TechniSol

Bwah, ha, ha! Right on schedule, I'd say. Personally, I'd wait longer if they'd actually take their time and fix annoying little issues once and for all.

There is something up with 3.2.0 I ran into the other night that is preventing me from opening an epub(side loaded) on my Glo, yet the same epub works fine on my Touch running 3.0.0... The epub, while messy, passes through Sigil with no errors in FlightCrew, but will not open on the Glo past the cover page. Attempting to turn the page invariably closes the epub and displays the thumbnail cover as finished. I've deleted it a number of times, even deleting the entire collection it is assigned to, rebooted between deleting and replacing it, manually set the title as unread and also tried it with the Kobo Plugin for Calibre and even signed out on the Glo and let it rebuild the database.

I'm clueless, but annoyed.

It just started for me. Quite the bother.

I did minor touch ups of purchased (no DRM) .epubs with Sigil on the Glo and also some FadedPage .epubs that I removed pg numbers with regex.

Offending section for one books is

<body>
  <p><a id="tp"></a></p><?dp n="1" folio="" ?>
  <?dp n="2" folio="" ?>
  <?dp n="3" folio="" ?>
  <?dp n="4" folio="" ?>

  <div class="centerAligned"><img alt="001" class="imgepub" src="../Images/jeff_9780861719709_oeb_001_r1.jpg" /></div><?dp n="5" folio="" ?>
  </body>

I do question the <?dp It is not the cover and has no semantics added onto. It is the third .html in /text

Offending section where it opens/stalls for second .epub is quite simple

[code
<style type="text/css">
@page {padding: 0pt; margin:0pt}
body { text-align: center; padding:0pt; margin: 0pt; }
div { margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; }
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div><img alt="cover" src="../Images/cover.jpg" style="height: 100%" /></div>
[/code]

It is the first .html in text and has cover under semantics.

Other rough edges, two computers have Calibre 1.22 from Debian backports while seperate Windows 7 partition has Calibre 1.31. The 1.22 complains that the filesystem is not totally work

I did a search for <br> and did not find any. Anybody else had any luck? Affected .epubs will open to the same initial page and freeze and go to Finished. Setting to unread, and syncing does not work.

The affected .epubs do not have <br> as Davidfor mentioned that above as one snag that will make this happen.

When syncing with Kobo, it will sometimes hang at 35 or 50% Resyncing does not cure, but it will not hang after a second sync.

Options, wait for updates and see if that fixes? Factory reset? Sigh.

[paola]

the desktop app updated to 3.7.0 - and the first report of FW 3.3.0 installing on a Glo is here for those who do not look at the Developers' corner forum.

[Rev. Bob]

Originally Posted by TechniSol

Is there any other validation or cleanup tool anyone might recommend I download?

Aside from EpubCheck, which you can use online at IDPF if you don't want to install it?

[jackastor]

Originally Posted by paola

the desktop app updated to 3.7.0 - and the first report of FW 3.3.0 installing on a Glo is here for those who do not look at the Developers' corner forum.

Thanks for the updates! Its nice to know my friend was very bang on!

regards

Jack

[jackastor]

For those that doubted it, the newest firmware was released within in the time frame my Friend reported it would be. Or very close to it any way.

Regards

Jack

[murg]

Originally Posted by paola

the desktop app updated to 3.7.0 - and the first report of FW 3.3.0 installing on a Glo is here for those who do not look at the Developers' corner forum.

Kobo's website is still delivering Desktop 3.6.0. And my desktop didn't update.

Hmmm...

[jackastor]

Originally Posted by murg

Kobo's website is still delivering Desktop 3.6.0. And my desktop didn't update.

Hmmm...

I did notice that well I manually downloaded it but before I could open it and check to see if the install was the newest desktop there was a pop up that told me there was an important update to the desktop ......

So I did the update.


regards

Jack