Problems and Fixes in Software 2.6

[stinky ox]

Download got to 19% and then stayed there forever; redoing the connection now just yields "Connecting to server" endlessly. Oh, and now it's timed out with "cannot make a connection".

Bloody hell, can't they sort their bloody server out? Getting anything off them seems to always be a complete nightmare. Goat help us if something isn't sorted before they start offering actual content. Flaky downloads are a relic from the modem age, surely.

[deadite66]

had a bit of a hairy update for a few minutes

upon startup led kept flashing away and this was displayed, pressed reset a few times and all was well again

[scotty1024]

Originally Posted by harryo

I'd love it to be even faster, but I have a feeling they have it at the point where the only thing that's taking the time is actually refreshing the screen.

My experience with the Sony Librie says it can get faster.

I've got an informal performance test I'm calling the "Jack Rabbit Speed Test". The document can be found here: http://www.ejackrabbit.com/p/JackrabbitBoxLunchMenu.pdf

The document took forever to open under 2.5, takes even longer to open now under 2.6 (really shows off the Startrek scanner thingy), but you can flip forwards and backwards inside it quickly now. I suspect XPDF is not heavily optimized for decoding images out of PDF's...

[scotty1024]

Originally Posted by stinky ox

Bloody hell, can't they sort their bloody server out? Getting anything off them seems to always be a complete nightmare.

I grabbed mine this morning (8am PDT) using a fractional DS3 (can turn out 500,000 bytes per second) and had no problems via Wired Connection. The update and grab of the new reference materials worked first time, smooth as silk.

Did you by any chance use wireless?

[rlauzon]

Originally Posted by b_k

One thing that bugs me: I setup a container of 12 HMTL pages, which are not bigger than the screen. But i have to flip pages with the stylus, the flip-bar doesn't work.

Did you set up the <pagelist> stuff in the manifest.xml? ex:

<pagelist type="layout" count="135">
<page number="1" url="0743.html" />
<page number="2" url="0744.html" />
<page number="3" url="0745.html" />
<page number="4" url="0746.html" />
...
<page number="135" url="0874.html" />
</pagelist>

This is what associates an HTML page with the page on the iLiad.

[stinky ox]

Originally Posted by scotty1024

I grabbed mine this morning (8am PDT) using a fractional DS3 (can turn out 500,000 bytes per second) and had no problems via Wired Connection. The update and grab of the new reference materials worked first time, smooth as silk.

Did you by any chance use wireless?

Nah, wired connection and not a bad one either, everything else is nice and speedy.

Stuck at 3% again now :/

[Mr. Goodbar]

You guys are killing me. My iLiad was boxed up yesterday and sent back for a new battery. I guess I'll just have to live vicariously thru all of you for the next week or so and focus on converting content for the iLiad. After playing around with the iLiad for a few days I must say reading on my vga ipaq is just not as pleasurable. I'm hoping for a quick repair and return.

[b_k]

Originally Posted by rlauzon

Did you set up the <pagelist> stuff in the manifest.xml? ex:

<pagelist type="layout" count="135">
<page number="1" url="0743.html" />
<page number="2" url="0744.html" />
<page number="3" url="0745.html" />
<page number="4" url="0746.html" />
...
<page number="135" url="0874.html" />
</pagelist>

This is what associates an HTML page with the page on the iLiad.

this is the manifest.xml in question. The page-indicator works, it shows the right page and i can click on it to flip to another page. However, the pageflip-bar doesn't work.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<package>
  <metadata>
    <dc-metadata>
      <Title>HTML test</Title>
      <Description>some description</Description>
      <Date>2006-02-21T04:02:03</Date>
      <Format>text/x-ereader-document</Format>
      <Language>en/us</Language>
      <Type>newspaper</Type>
    </dc-metadata>
    <y-metadata>
      <FileSize>000</FileSize>
      <ItemSize>000</ItemSize>
      <startpage>fw031.html</startpage>
      <image/>
      <version>000</version>
    </y-metadata>
  </metadata>
  <index>
    <pagelist type="html" count="12">
      <page number="01" url="fw031.html"/>
      <page number="02" url="fw032.html"/>
      <page number="03" url="fw033.html"/>
      <page number="04" url="fw034.html"/>
      <page number="05" url="fw035.html"/>
      <page number="06" url="fw036.html"/>
      <page number="07" url="fw037.html"/>
      <page number="08" url="fw038.html"/>
      <page number="09" url="fw039.html"/>
      <page number="10" url="fw0310.html"/>
      <page number="11" url="fw0311.html"/>
      <page number="12" url="fw0312.html"/>
    </pagelist>
  </index>
<last-location><document>file:///mnt/card/html/fw031.html</document></last-location></package>

[Roceh]

You have to something like the following in each html file to get the back/next bar working:

<html>
<head>
<title>Page 2</title>
<meta type="layout" />
<link rel="prev" href="page0001.html" />
<link rel="next" href="page0003.html" />
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

[b_k]

Originally Posted by Roceh

You have to something like the following in each html file to get the back/next bar working:

<html>
<head>
<title>Page 2</title>
<meta type="layout" />
<link rel="prev" href="page0001.html" />
<link rel="next" href="page0003.html" />
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

*d'oh* shoot me

[Stuart Young]

Installed 2.6 all worked well.. Opened a PDF, pages a lot quicker..
Then it went wrong. It's currently crashed an won't turn off. Even if I use the reset on the back of the device

[jæd]

Got the update ok... I like the much faster pdf page turning speed... But the pdfs got reset back to the begenning, although closing pdfs and then reopening seem fine...

[vvoi666]

got my update with no problems.

everything works fine until i shut the iliad off with an open pdf ... the led won't just go out. when i press the reset button, it shuts down properly.

anyone else having this problem?

[CommanderROR]

yes i'm having the same problem. Sometimes I think they don't do any beta-testing...and the feedback they getfrom us is ignored most of the time. The Sound-bug still seems to be in...I'm so used to the "plock" by now I don't hear it anymore, but I want to get rid of it anyway..

Software 2.6 works a lot better for PDF (but no better or even worse for HTML) but it crashes on exit, is still a bit touch-and-go with my SD-Card...

I'll have to email iRex...the only way to shut the device down right now seems to be reset...can't be good news.

[scotty1024]

No crashes here but I've just left the unit on since it grabbed the 2.6 release documents. Looks like 10 hours is pretty close to what it is delivering.

By the way, did anyone else notice the developer job opening posted on iRex's site? Either they just lost a developer or they are looking to staff up one more developer.