Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

[AndCycle]

Originally Posted by firehawk12

I ordered a cheap sleep cover on ebay, so I hope that works. But that notepad is amazing, haha.

no, unfortunately it won't works that way,

like the power button issue,
all powerbotton/smartcover event will be accumulated,
once you go back to Nickle,
it will start to catch up those event and probably cause system hang that require you press the reset button

I just switch from kindle pw to aura hd today,
and find out this is really frustrated.

[Markismus]

Originally Posted by AndCycle

like the power button issue, all powerbotton/smartcover event will be accumulated, once you go back to Nickle, it will start to catch up those event..

Nice that you take an interest in this problem!

However, this doesn't correspond to my experience at all. No accumulation of events happen. The closed sleepcover keeps the standby message on screen. Analogous to a perpetuating power button pull.

Both the power button and the sleep cover trigger the shell script kobo_suspend.sh. It can't succesfully put the device to sleep in the lines

#go to sleep
sync
echo 1 > /sys/power/state-extended
echo mem > /sys/power/state

It generates a error message like sh: write error: Device or resource busy at the last line.


If you telnet into your device and enter the command at the shell prompt you can generate the message yourself. I would be very interested in a way to solve this. So your input is valued!

[Ken Maltby]

This may not help, but my zero message timing and 2 for preload timing is still giving me a frozen screen "suspend" with the touchscreen not functioning. (Don't know if the cpu is paused or not, I expect not.) This is as of 2014.04-23, at least. On my AuraHD FW 3.2.0.
Edit: Still working in 2014.04-41.

Luck;
Ken

[AndCycle]

Originally Posted by Markismus

long msg

have complete different reaction here, if I manually execute those line in telnet,
my device freeze, complete no response, have to use the reset button to wake it up,

I put a simple echo to tmp test if kobo_suspend.sh got execute,
and no, it doesn't, looks like all my poweroff/sleep event have been taken by nickel,

I am using Aura HD, software ver 3.3.0,
just got it 8hrs ago, freshed with fmon and roreader nightly build :x

[ipse]

Originally Posted by AndCycle

no, unfortunately it won't works that way,

like the power button issue,
all powerbotton/smartcover event will be accumulated,
once you go back to Nickle,
it will start to catch up those event and probably cause system hang that require you press the reset button

I just switch from kindle pw to aura hd today,
and find out this is really frustrated.

I confirm the same behavior on Aura (non-HD) running 3.3.0.
So far the only solution is to exit cleanly and close the cover only when in Nickel.
CoolReader has pretty much the same problem, I read in the e-book (russian) forum that it works in 3.2.0? May be the bad Google translation

[Markismus]

Originally Posted by AndCycle

have complete different reaction here, if I manually execute those line in telnet,
my device freeze, complete no response, have to use the reset button to wake it up,

I put a simple echo to tmp test if kobo_suspend.sh got execute,
and no, it doesn't, looks like all my poweroff/sleep event have been taken by nickel,

I am using Aura HD, software ver 3.3.0,
just got it 8hrs ago, freshed with fmon and roreader nightly build :x

The freeze would suggest that Ken Maltby's approach would also work for your Aura HD. (Search the thread for the code in which he enters the timings.)
However, you suggest that the script is not called..this would indeed be a _new issue_. Could you check an open an issue at koreader github?

Originally Posted by ipse

I confirm the same behavior on Aura (non-HD) running 3.3.0.
So far the only solution is to exit cleanly and close the cover only when in Nickel.
CoolReader has pretty much the same problem, I read in the e-book (russian) forum that it works in 3.2.0? May be the bad Google translation

The behaviour I described is indeed for 3.2.0.

Just for the sake of clarity. Normal behavior would be that when you pull the power switch, you get a message saying Standby!, which disappears as soon as you touch the screen. If you are experiencing new behavior, please create an issue on github.

[serdar0020]

nightly built 2014.04-67 doesn't seem to work, Kobo doesn't open

and 2014.04-62 has some trouble with the progress bar when reading non-reflowed pdf's: sometimes it doesn't show the pages (eg. 43/385) but just the time (09:43)

[Markismus]

Originally Posted by serdar0020

nightly built 2014.04-67 doesn't seem to work, Kobo doesn't open

Probably you'll have to reinstall Kobolaucher/fmon. If you upgrade your firmware for your Kobo---usually automatically by syncing--- some files get overwritten.

Originally Posted by serdar0020

2014.04-62 has some trouble with the progress bar when reading non-reflowed pdf's: sometimes it doesn't show the pages (eg. 43/385) but just the time (09:43)

It think the function is one tap for time, another for progress and another one for mini bar off. A long one pops up the Goto window. See the Tips and Tricks on the github wiki.


@chrox Couldn't you edit the 2nd post in this thread to link to all your new work in the koreader wiki? Apparently, people can't find it.

[serdar0020]

thanks, Markismus, tapping on the bottom right corner did the trick (still half cut-off progress bar in portrait mode though)

I'll try out fmon now (having so far only used pbchess as launcher)

edit: deleted the old koreader and fmon and vlasoft/pbchess folders, re-installed just fmon and koreader (without pbchess/coolreader) - works smoothly with built 2014.04-62, built 67 still doesn't open

[Markismus]

Originally Posted by serdar0020

..still half cut-off progress bar in portrait mode though..

The github issue is here.

Originally Posted by serdar0020

built 67 still doesn't open

I wonder whether this is the due to houqp latest work.

Thanks for testing. Houqp asked for your response here. Could you include the crash.log file? If it is generated, then you can find it in the .kobo/koreader directory.

[yayo]

Originally Posted by serdar0020

nightly built 2014.04-67 doesn't seem to work, Kobo doesn't open

20140516 and 20140517 working here, 20140518 and 20140519 won't open Koreader. I have pbchess and Koreader installed, per Ken Maltby's tutorial.

[Ken Maltby]

OK, I'll check it out with tshering's Start Menu as well.
With v2014.05-71: (20140519)

Start Menu: Koreader doesn't start just a screen refresh of the start menu.
going to Sergey's launcher works fine.
Going to Nickel and selecting Koreader icon just gives me the fullsized image, the same for the Launcher icon.

fmon might be messed up but it might have been for some time as I don't normally use it anymore. Correction; fmon must still be working but the koreader.png and launcher.png need to be reinstalled.

I'll try v2014.05-62 (nightly 20140516) next:

Seems to be working, with the Kobo Start Menu.

Guess I need to put a warning on the install guide.

Luck;
Ken

Fixed in v2014.05-75 (nightly 20140520).

[realbezo]

I installed koreader on my kobo mini and ran a couple of times but after a while it disappeared.
I checked my kobo's root folder, the png for running koreader was missing, i copied it again to my root folder, but it is not shown in my library.

Have someone ever had same problem?
Do i have to reinstall koreader?

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by realbezo

I installed koreader on my kobo mini and ran a couple of times but after a while it disappeared.
I checked my kobo's root folder, the png for running koreader was missing, i copied it again to my root folder, but it is not shown in my library.

Have someone ever had same problem?
Do i have to reinstall koreader?

The .png must get processed by the Kobo software and added to the library as an image file. You may just have to power off and restart, for the Kobo software to see the file you added as something new that it needs to add to the database. After the Kobo software has added the .png file, you should be able to select the KOreader icon and one of two things will happen; 1) Koreader will start or 2) you will see the full page image displayed. If the full page image is what you get, then you will need to copy over the KoboRoot.tgz file from the koreader download, into the .kobo directory. It will remake the connection in fmon to launch koreader when the icon is selected. No need to reinstall the rest of koreader.

Luck;
Ken

[Markismus]

In the next nightly build multi-language support is added for Kobo!

The actual translation of koreader in languages other than english is done at Transifex.

Today I added Dutch language support for koreader. However, not all messages for all languages have been translated and reviewed yet.

Anyone who is interested can head over to Transifex and help. You can review the translations already done, fill in the untranslated gaps and request other languages for koreader. (I did this for Dutch today and it took me 3 moments during the evening to translate the 200 or so strings. That's also the reason for the need for reviews of course! )