Patching firmware 4.0.7523

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

If you're talking about the `Disable reading footer` and `Custom reading footer style`patches they've already been done.

Or are you talking about something else entirely?

It may not help with the H2O, though, as that may be a completely different firmware version number when it arrives.

I'm talking the patch that allows the footer to moved and the space at the top of the footer to be changed. That patch has not yet been implemented.

As for the H2O's next firmware, I think it will be similar to this one so having the patches for this version will help with the next general release.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I'm talking the patch that allows the footer to moved and the space at the top of the footer to be changed. That patch has not yet been implemented.

I'm still non-the-wiser which patch you're referring to. What is it's official patch_name?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

I'm still non-the-wiser which patch you're referring to. What is it's official patch_name?

patch_name = `Custom reading footer style`

That's the one that's missing.

[jackie_w]

Well at the risk of repeating myself verbatim and as per my previous link - it has already been done in 4.0.7523.

It's moved from libnickel.so.1.0.0.patch to nickel.patch.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Well at the risk of repeating myself verbatim and as per my previous link - it has already been done in 4.0.7523.

It's moved from libnickel.so.1.0.0.patch to nickel.patch.

My fault. I didn't read nickel.patch.

Thanks for that.

[GeoffR]

I've created an "Instructions for patching firmware 4.0.7523" thread.

There are no new patches since the last update to my post #7 in this thread, but I think there are enough working and tested to be useful for now.

If a moderator could unsticky this thread and sticky the one above that would be good.

[anacreon]

Thank you for your work on patches. I have some problems with this one:

* remove PDF map didn't work but preserve pan does, which is a big improvement - I'm reading PDFs just now; I still see the arrows right or left, but that is not really a problem. One improvement I would really like is smaller steps for the zoom arrow, but I have no idea whether that would be easy to implement or not.
* the default search in library didn't work (from the Home page)
* most important for my problem eyes: the advanced font control didn't work
* the kepub full justification worked - I hadn't chosen it before, and I like it very much EDIT: apparently not in 5 other books I opened to see
* I don't know how to check that the custom font size or the 24 line spacing works size work
* the force user line spacing in the kepub I have with this problem doesn't work
* I don't see the difference in the unforce user font family (2nd variant) but I could have looked at a wrong book or a wrong place in this book. I'll try the 3rd variant anyway.

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by anacreon

Thank you for your work on patches. I have some problems with this one:

* remove PDF map didn't work but preserve pan does, which is a big improvement - I'm reading PDFs just now; I still see the arrows right or left, but that is not really a problem. One improvement I would really like is smaller steps for the zoom arrow, but I have no idea whether that would be easy to implement or not.
* the default search in library didn't work (from the Home page)
* most important for my problem eyes: the advanced font control didn't work
* the kepub full justification worked - I hadn't chosen it before, and I like it very much EDIT: apparently not in 5 other books I opened to see
* I don't know how to check that the custom font size or the 24 line spacing works size work
* the force user line spacing in the kepub I have with this problem doesn't work
* I don't see the difference in the unforce user font family (2nd variant) but I could have looked at a wrong book or a wrong place in this book. I'll try the 3rd variant anyway.

Well that is discouraging, others have reported that most of theose patches worked.

Note that `kePub full justification default` only sets the default, the publisher can still override it in the book's stylesheet.

`Un-Force user font-family in KePubs` will depend a lot on how the publisher has set the font-family in the book's stylesheet, it is really only consistent if you are edit the book's stylesheet before sideloading.

Edit: To see if `My 24 line spacing values` is active, select the minimum line spacing: with most fonts it will result in lines so close together that they are just starting to overlap.

[aceflor]

Originally Posted by anacreon

Thank you for your work on patches. I have some problems with this one:

* remove PDF map didn't work but preserve pan does, which is a big improvement - I'm reading PDFs just now; I still see the arrows right or left, but that is not really a problem. One improvement I would really like is smaller steps for the zoom arrow, but I have no idea whether that would be easy to implement or not.
* the default search in library didn't work (from the Home page)
* most important for my problem eyes: the advanced font control didn't work
* the kepub full justification worked - I hadn't chosen it before, and I like it very much EDIT: apparently not in 5 other books I opened to see
* I don't know how to check that the custom font size or the 24 line spacing works size work
* the force user line spacing in the kepub I have with this problem doesn't work
* I don't see the difference in the unforce user font family (2nd variant) but I could have looked at a wrong book or a wrong place in this book. I'll try the 3rd variant anyway.

Weird... The default search in library does work on mine, as well as the advanced font control.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by aceflor

Weird... The default search in library does work on mine, as well as the advanced font control.

Yep, same here.

[rtiangha]

Originally Posted by anacreon

Thank you for your work on patches. I have some problems with this one:

* remove PDF map didn't work but preserve pan does, which is a big improvement - I'm reading PDFs just now; I still see the arrows right or left, but that is not really a problem. One improvement I would really like is smaller steps for the zoom arrow, but I have no idea whether that would be easy to implement or not.
* the default search in library didn't work (from the Home page)
* most important for my problem eyes: the advanced font control didn't work
* the kepub full justification worked - I hadn't chosen it before, and I like it very much EDIT: apparently not in 5 other books I opened to see
* I don't know how to check that the custom font size or the 24 line spacing works size work
* the force user line spacing in the kepub I have with this problem doesn't work
* I don't see the difference in the unforce user font family (2nd variant) but I could have looked at a wrong book or a wrong place in this book. I'll try the 3rd variant anyway.

Most, if not all, of those work for me as well. Question: Are you sure you actually enabled the patches before applying them? By default, all of them are set to 'no.'

[anacreon]

Originally Posted by rtiangha

Most, if not all, of those work for me as well. Question: Are you sure you actually enabled the patches before applying them? By default, all of them are set to 'no.'

I tried to be very careful, and I already use some of those patches on both the H2O and the Glo HD (the 3.15.0 F/w version).

A "rechecking" right now:
adobe
<Patch>
patch_name = `Remove PDF map widget shown during panning`
patch_enable = `yes`
replace_bytes = 0295EE, 00 F5 94 75, 12 E0 00 BF
</Patch>

<Patch>
patch_name = `Preserve PDF pan position across page turns`
patch_enable = `no`
replace_bytes = 02077E, 04 46, 98 BD
</Patch>

Very very strange because in fact the pan position works, but I still see the map widget. I did say in my previous mail that I had set the pan to yes, but I looked at my checklist and that is what I chose (next time I"ll write yes because I like it).

nickel
patch_name = `My 24 line spacing values`
patch_enable = `yes`
It definitely doesn't work with any of the books I tried, in fact is seems worse.

patch_name = `Custom left & right margins`
patch_enable = `yes`
I haven't tested that

patch_name = `Custom font sizes`
patch_enable = `yes`
Not sure. I tried to compare with the Glo HD which has it, but the numbers are different.

patch_name = `Search in Library by default`
patch_enable = `yes`
Doesn't work for the One.

patch_name = `Freedom to advanced fonts control`
patch_enable = `yes`
The most important for me. Doesn't work for the One.

patch_name = `Force user line spacing in KePubs`
patch_enable = `yes`
Doesn't work on the one kepub where I had this problem recently.

patch_name = `Un-Force user font-family in KePubs`
patch_enable = `yes`
# Alternatve 1:
#replace_string
...
# Alternatve 2:
replace_string
Not sure. I'll have to try on various kepubs, next time I'll try alternative 3.

patch_name = `KePub full justification default`
patch_enable = `yes`
First try here, did seem to work on a couple of kepubs, but didn't on many more.

I had a lot of problems with the One yesterday, so even though I now systematically check that the database is ok, perhaps there is something wrong with it.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=409

EDIT: Forgot to say I didn't touch the nickel patch, and modified the following in the librmsdk patch:
<Patch>
patch_name = `Fix page breaks bug`
patch_enable = `yes`
replace_bytes = 2C08E4, E6 D0, E6 E7
</Patch>

<Patch>
patch_name = `Default ePub monospace font (Courier)`
patch_enable = `yes`

I also said yes for the monospace font.

I think I'll try this evening to modify just the PDFs with both yes to see how it goes and leave the rest with GeoffR's defaults.

[anacreon]

So, with both yes it works for PDFs: the pan is preserved and the map is removed.

Perhaps everybody else chose both yes, and the problem was having one yes and one no. It was indeed strange that the result for me was the opposite of my initial choices. Did somebody go the map/yes and pan/no route and it worked? Or the opposite and it worked too?

Now I'll try just the advanced font control freedom.

[anacreon]

Originally Posted by anacreon

So, with both yes it works for PDFs: the pan is preserved and the map is removed.

Perhaps everybody else chose both yes, and the problem was having one yes and one no. It was indeed strange that the result for me was the opposite of my initial choices. Did somebody go the map/yes and pan/no route and it worked? Or the opposite and it worked too?

Now I'll try just the advanced font control freedom.

It worked! Oh frabjous day! Have I a sensitive One, a fragile little thing who can't take in more than one patch at a time?

[anacreon]

Dear GeoffR,
Are your patches to remove fonts (those that interest me are KoboNickel, OpenDyslexic, TsukuMin and UDKakugo) F/w and/or device sensitive?
I don't dare use them on my One (4.0.7523).