Universal Flasher 2.0 with PRS-505 support!

[jakewastaken]

Ah, thanks.

[alexxxm]

I never tried this program, but now after updating the firmware I was a bit interested.
Problem is, with all the discussions about it going around, I'm unable to find a root post where it is simply described (with screenshots it would be a must...) what the patches you're describing are able to do: I heard about clocks, fonts,... I don't know if there's other stuff around or not.

Sorry if I missed it somewhere...


alessandro

[SurgE]

Originally Posted by alexxxm

I never tried this program, but now after updating the firmware I was a bit interested.
Problem is, with all the discussions about it going around, I'm unable to find a root post where it is simply described (with screenshots it would be a must...) what the patches you're describing are able to do: I heard about clocks, fonts,... I don't know if there's other stuff around or not.

Sorry if I missed it somewhere...


alessandro

There ain't really a specific guide for what you're looking for. I guess you gotta read thru the threads we have here to get the hang of it

[djet]

Tried to make custom image for 505.1.1.00.18040. The process terminates at copying files from SD card with:

Begin make_opt -> Tue May 29 21:42:19 UTC 2007
Card root: b: PRS version: 505.1.1.00.18040
Copying helper binaries
/tmp/self_upgrade found! Cleaning ...
/tmp/self_upgrade Created!
13103104
Free space in /tmp: 30744576, used space in /opt: 13103104
Begin copy of /opt
./
./sony/
./sony/ebook/
....{SKIP}....
./sony/ebook/bin/writescreen
/opt copied to /tmp/self_upgrade/new_opt/
Begin copy of new files
init B: non DOS media
Cannot initialize 'B:'

What's wrong?

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by seajewel

That would be a great trick to put my name and contact info in.

I outlined another method to do this:

Modify main.xml

<record><number name="kind" value="-1"/><string name="text" value="Portions of this software are Copyright ©2005 The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org). All rights reserved."/></record>

<record><number name="kind" value="-1"/><string name="text" value="This Ebook Reader Belongs to Jeffery Elkins - If found, please call XXX-XXX-XXXX."/></record>

For a personalized About screen.

[kaas]

Hi everybody,

I have managed to break my power switch/ slide on my 505 (description is in the troubleshooting forum)
i now need to map the standby modus to enter AND have the reader wake up when I press it again (or another button for that matter).
Any idea how I would do that?

Thanks,
kaas

p.s.: does anyone know whether that is possible?

[Peto]

Originally Posted by alexxxm

I never tried this program, but now after updating the firmware I was a bit interested.
Problem is, with all the discussions about it going around, I'm unable to find a root post where it is simply described (with screenshots it would be a must...) what the patches you're describing are able to do: I heard about clocks, fonts,... I don't know if there's other stuff around or not.

Sorry if I missed it somewhere...


alessandro

Try here
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27043

[nemolivier]

Is there any chance that universal flasher 2 let me listen to my ogg/flac vorbis files ?
Since decoders and codecs are open-source… unfortunatly, I’m not able at all to code this myself.
It would be cool too avoid re-ripping my ogg/flac to mp3 files !
I don’t realy nead a full juckbox like the one for iliad (there’s rockbox on my ipod for this )

Indeed, thank’s a lot for the clock !

[stasys]

For those who want to have joystick turning pages - in: files.505.1.1.00.18040\opt\sony\ebook\application\ resources
open with notepad file:
applicationStart.xml
modify there:
<boolean key="kRight" do="doRight" />
to:
<boolean key="kRight" do="doNext" />
save file (be sure that notepad is saving "applicationStart.xml", not "applicationStart.xml.txt".
Create image, flash it, enjoy.

[JSWolf]

If you do change the joypad to use it to turn the pages, you'll lose the ability to have your hstory unless you modify some other keys to do history back/forward. So don't do so unless you also modify two other keys to do the history.

This is important as I have some eBooks I've converted that have footnotes and the only ways to get bck to the page I was on is to go back by page number or use the history and history is a lot easier.

The reason we modified the joystick on the 500 was that there were no page turn buttons on the right side. But witht he 505, we have page turn on both the left and right sides now. So personally, I see no reason to modify the joypad to turn pages.

[porkupan]

Originally Posted by stasys

For those who want to have joystick turning pages - in: files.505.1.1.00.18040\opt\sony\ebook\application\ resources
open with notepad file:
applicationStart.xml
modify there:
<boolean key="kRight" do="doRight" />
to:
<boolean key="kRight" do="doNext" />
save file (be sure that notepad is saving "applicationStart.xml", not "applicationStart.xml.txt".
Create image, flash it, enjoy.

This is exactly the wrong fix. The correct fix for joypad page turning is this:

Add a doRight() override to main.xml (for book reading only):

<kbookPage id="PAGE" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="30" href="x-id://bookData">
   <code>
      <function id="doRight">
         this.bubble("doNext");
      </function>

[porkupan]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

This is important as I have some eBooks I've converted that have footnotes and the only ways to get bck to the page I was on is to go back by page number or use the history and history is a lot easier.

That's why you shouldn't override the Back button, but overriding the Forward button make a lot of sense.

[stasys]

porkupan,
you were right - modifying main.xml is the right way to do things. For those who as dummy as I am - you need to insert:
<function id="doRight">
this.bubble("doNext");
</function>
right below the lines:
<kbookPage id="PAGE" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="30" href="x-id://bookData">
<code>
The good tool to edit .xml files is XML Marker from http://symbolclick.com/download.htm

[stgben]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So personally, I see no reason to modify the joypad to turn pages.

For me it's an issue of comfort. I like to hold the reader in such a way that the joystick is the most comfortable page turning solution. I'm glad I found porkupan's solution because I had hacked up the wrong solution a few days ago and was without an easily accessible history.

[stasys]

Can somebody tell me, please, which lines I shall modify in main.xml in order to get uniform fonts?