New Kobo Firmware "April 2019" v4.13.12638

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by davidfor

I don't know what you are trying to achieve here. The metadata update has absolutely nothing to do with the annotations. And if you are adding a new book, this doesn't affect a new book being sent to the device. It only updates the metadata the next time you connect the device.

I'll fix it for the next release. In the meantime, you can uncheck the options inside the group to get the same affect.

As stated above, I am not seeing any change in behaviour for books in the main memory.

I'd thought I'd read somewhere the the "metadata setting" wasn't quite compatible with this FW, so I thought I'd try turning it off to see did that help, though I couldn't imagine why it would!

You are right, it's not the same bug, because the % progress isn't 0 and it was affecting SD card books. The % progress is though low, near end of chapter might be only 10%.

I've started annotating again, with the book in main memory (Annotations folder absolutely replaced by empty file). The Chapters do progress, but I think one annotation maybe had previous chapter and % progress seems low and looks like it's for entire book? It does nn% INTO CHAPTER

C1: 3%
C2: 6%
C2: 8%
C2: 8%
C2: 8%
C2: 10%
Last Added C3: 11%  (A test as C3 had no notes)
C4: 12%
C5: 15%  (near end of chapter)
I closed book (went to Home) after going to this annotation and opened a different one.
Book Progress = 15%
Reopened Book, paged to C6:, created a test note on 1st 5 words:
C6: 15%
Now jumped to end after close & reopen. Added notes from end, working backwards, section after last chapter, all mysteriously missing from TOC, no doubt something stupid I've done. Here the headings are all Level 2 after a Level 1 heading of introduction (other titles & blurbs per page, except some are missing page breaks, likely my source is wrong):
2nd note a few pages later in c6 is correctly C6,
C6: 15%
But next entry (the one done after exiting book and re-entering) is the first note after reopening and using Slider to  get almost to the end of the book
C6: 99% (so this is BOOK progress)
The next notes/annotations  are all C36 and added in reverse order after the one listed as C6: 99%.  It's not C36, but that's my TOC error, the last section is all in C36.
Last entry before going to C6  is C36: 96%
The next six are all C36: 97%
The last is C36: 98%, which was the second note made, going backwards from the end.

So obviously I looked hastily at the original annotations done when the book was on the SD card.

My Conclusions
1) Does the same in main memory or SD card
2) The "Chapter Progress" is actually % location in entire Book, if you've no chapters, and not all books have chapters, it won't matter. Not a huge problem, except they still call it Chapter. I wonder is it affected by Chapter/Book reading setting?
3) If you at least go to a different book and go back the FIRST annotation uses the last chapter you closed/opened at, though progress is correct book progress. Then it recovers and enters the correct Chapter (though book progress).

Very odd. Certainly a new bug, though it has some similarity to the old one.

[Zorka]

FInally got the time to install this on one of my mini's. No problems found at the moment. All working fine

[Ladyrixx]

Originally Posted by rashkae

It was not mentioned in the release notes, but this firmware has resolved the issue with the forma staying stuck in the wrong/upside down orientation on wake up.

Oh thank [goodness (-ed)]! I was getting annoyed by that!

[Leeward]

Originally Posted by mbovenka

It may be using the wrong country settings to determine the legal 2.4GHz channels. My AP uses channel 13, which is legal here in the Nerherlands, but not in the US. I have a TP-Link router/AP/repeater/bridge/WiFi client that can't see it after a factory reset until I manually tell it to use the 'Netherlands' country setting.

Very confusing if you don't twig to it

Thanks for the heads up !
I'll test it when I get a chance.

Strange that the client would care when searching for an AP.
You would think the client would simply search all possible channels and let the AP worry about which channels are allowed.

It's not like people don't use the Kobo for travelling.

I did notice that when rolled back to the older firmware, other WiFi hotspots in range show up, in addition to my own.

[PhyrePhox]

Originally Posted by davidfor

turn off the metadata update option in the driver.

I cannot get this to "stick". I tried both Main and Extended drivers, and every time I restart Calibre, the "Update metadata on the device" option is checked again.

[NiLuJe]

@PhyrePhox: This will be fixed in the upcoming Calibre release.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by PhyrePhox

I cannot get this to "stick". I tried both Main and Extended drivers, and every time I restart Calibre, the "Update metadata on the device" option is checked again.

As @NiLuJe said, there is a bug which will be fixed in the next calibre release. The overall "Update metadata on the device" option isn't saved properly and is always on. But, turning off the "Update metadata on Book Details page" can be turned off. That was actually the option I was thinking of as you can then have the series info update happen.

[gabryele]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Can anyone else confirm this problem I'm seeing in 4.13.12638 ...

I'm no longer seeing hyphenation in any of my kepubs.

I have the same problem.
And I use Calibre + plugin kobotouchextended (no patch in the kobo)
hyphenation is missing (present with previous firmware version)
setting to off or justify is equal

bug of this firmware?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by gabryele

I have the same problem.
And I use Calibre + plugin kobotouchextended (no patch in the kobo)
hyphenation is missing (present with previous firmware version)
setting to off or justify is equal

bug of this firmware?

It is due to a change in the firmware and a change needed in calibre. See my post for details.

[gabryele]

Originally Posted by davidfor

It is due to a change in the firmware and a change needed in calibre. See [thread=3828650]my post[/post] for details.

thread 3828650?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?t=3828650



I see only this:

As @NiLuJe said, there is a bug which will be fixed in the next calibre release. The overall "Update metadata on the device" option isn't saved properly and is always on. But, turning off the "Update metadata on Book Details page" can be turned off. That was actually the option I was thinking of as you can then have the series info update happen.

but If need a calibre update, we must retransfer all the books in the kobo?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by gabryele

thread 3828650?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?t=3828650



I see only this:

As @NiLuJe said, there is a bug which will be fixed in the next calibre release. The overall "Update metadata on the device" option isn't saved properly and is always on. But, turning off the "Update metadata on Book Details page" can be turned off. That was actually the option I was thinking of as you can then have the series info update happen.

but If need a calibre update, we must retransfer all the books in the kobo?

Sorry, I messed up the link. I have fixed it now. And no, there will be no need to retransfer the books. The bug is when the driver updates the database. Just connect again after the update to calibre happens, and it will update the metadata.

[gabryele]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Sorry, I messed up the link. I have fixed it now. And no, there will be no need to retransfer the books. The bug is when the driver updates the database. Just connect again after the update to calibre happens, and it will update the metadata.

wait... i'm confused...
I didn't use calibre in this firmware upgrade step.
I noticed the difference with the book that was already uploaded on my Kobo.
Is it still a driver problem?
and when the new version of Calibre will be ready, exactly what command should be used?


and... another question:

In the meantime, if you are affected by it, turn off the metadata update option in the driver.

where is this option?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by gabryele

wait... i'm confused...
I didn't use calibre in this firmware upgrade step.
I noticed the difference with the book that was already uploaded on my Kobo.
Is it still a driver problem?
and when the new version of Calibre will be ready, exactly what command should be used?

There is a change in how the firmware sets and interprets the language code that is stored in the database. The KoboTouch driver has an option to update the metadata in the database. One of the things it does is to set the language code. It does this based on the rules I worked out when I added this option. The driver can update the database on each connection to the device.

The change in the driver is to set the language code based on the current rules. Just connecting the device with the appropriate options set will be enough to fix this with the updated calibre.

and... another question:


where is this option?

It is on the third tab of the configuration of the KoboTouch driver, or KoboTouchExtended driver if you use that.

[gabryele]

yes I found this:



thanks

Just connecting the device with the appropriate options set will be enough to fix this with the updated calibre.

when there will be the update, can you let us know the appropriate options to tick?
thanks in advance

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by gabryele

yes I found this:


thanks



when there will be the update, can you let us know the appropriate options to tick?
thanks in advance

If that is a screenshot from your calibre installation, you are not affected by this problem. That is a very old version of calibre from before I added the full metadata updating function. It doesn't set the language.

But, that is actually a screenshot of the KoboTouch driver rather than the KoboTouchExtended driver which you said you are using. That has an option to set the language separately. This option is on the "Extended" tab of the options. That might be what is triggering the problem on the device.