Firmware 3.0.0 0cbc3626b3

[_pietro]

this firmware is definitely lagging on the touch... trying to do a reset and reinstall

[PurpleStar]

Other than the ugly box being removed from the cover screen, I'm not liking the sound of this new firmware at all. 3 taps to get to the table of contents? 2 is bad enough already. Ridiculous.

[lohtse]

Originally Posted by _pietro

this firmware is definitely lagging on the touch... trying to do a reset and reinstall

odd as seems to fly on my touch!!!!

[jackastor]

Originally Posted by lohtse

odd as seems to fly on my touch!!!!

Actually on the two Touches in my home both work very fast. And its a nice sleep appearance. I would like however to have the option to dismiss the sync tile. Helps to prevent issues with users unfamiliar with technology or rather Technologically challenged.


regards

Jack

[FaceDeer]

Originally Posted by jackastor

I would like however to have the option to dismiss the sync tile. Helps to prevent issues with users unfamiliar with technology or rather Technologically challenged.

I ran into that same issue. Do you use Calibre? The KoboUtilities plugin for Calibre includes options to force-dismiss any tile from the home screen, including the sync tile. Unfortunately "install Calibre and then the KoboUtilities plugin and then go to that plugin's settings and check the "sync" box" is perhaps not the ideal solution for the technologically challenged, but it worked for me and freed up some space for another book tile so I'm good with that.

[93terp]

Even though they removed the reading stats option from within the book (sideloaded kepubs), I went ahead & upgraded from 2.8.1. Wow! It's very snappy!

However, I've noticed that they seem to have removed the ability double tap in the middle of the page to refresh the display.

[jackastor]

Originally Posted by FaceDeer

I ran into that same issue. Do you use Calibre? The KoboUtilities plugin for Calibre includes options to force-dismiss any tile from the home screen, including the sync tile. Unfortunately "install Calibre and then the KoboUtilities plugin and then go to that plugin's settings and check the "sync" box" is perhaps not the ideal solution for the technologically challenged, but it worked for me and freed up some space for another book tile so I'm good with that.

I was aware that calibres plugins allow dismissial but it should be a feature not a hack to do it. Though thank you for thevsuggestion:-)


Regards

Jack

[_pietro]

Originally Posted by _pietro

this firmware is definitely lagging on the touch... trying to do a reset and reinstall

after reset and reinstall it's no more lagging, something goes wrong with the sd card or calibre... it is still a bit slowly respect to 2.10.0 when clicking options in the bottom bar, not so important btw

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by PurpleStar

Other than the ugly box being removed from the cover screen, I'm not liking the sound of this new firmware at all. 3 taps to get to the table of contents? 2 is bad enough already. Ridiculous.

The number of taps to display the TOC hasn't changed. The older firmware had:

1. Tap to bring up the menu bars
2. Tap the book icon to display the menu
3. Tap "Table of contents"

Now it is:

1. Tap to bring up the menu bars
2. Tap the double headed arrow to display the navigation bar
3. Tap "Table of contents"

I count three taps for both.

[YarnerT]

Hi everyone, I have a Kobo touch. I heard somewhere that sudoku is no longer in the extras menu with the new firmware. Is this true?

[davidfor]

It is still there. But, the settings menu item that has it has been renamed to "Beta features".

[Alphabase]

I updated my aura hd to 3.0. Overall quite happy but it seems that the modification I installed previously that let's you read with white on black by holding the light switch for two seconds no longer works. Has anyone else noticed this?

[lohtse]

odd behavior and possible bug...


Have had a couple of random reboots when placing my touch into sleep mode..

Thought at first was a one off but has now happened 5 times since applying fw3.... and whats more annoying is it deletes the koboreader.cfg file and replaces it with a default one resulting in everything be factory default settings... Now I do have a back up of the file which I tried copying over but thought it does successfully after rebooting it restores default settings!!!!! tried a dozen or more times... Only way to resort settings was to open backup file and file on touch and copy alll info from backup and past over all on touch....... Most annoying.....if it keeps happening will have to go back to 2.10.0

[lohtse]

Originally Posted by FaceDeer

I ran into that same issue. Do you use Calibre? The KoboUtilities plugin for Calibre includes options to force-dismiss any tile from the home screen, including the sync tile. Unfortunately "install Calibre and then the KoboUtilities plugin and then go to that plugin's settings and check the "sync" box" is perhaps not the ideal solution for the technologically challenged, but it worked for me and freed up some space for another book tile so I'm good with that.

nicer trick .... works till you sync(I snyc pocket articles) then is back and cannot be removed till you use calibre to force dismiss....

[anacreon]

I just sideloaded the whole of 3.0.0 to the Glo (which I use for such tests), and kept the Aura HD on 2.10.0

The bug of having to tap twice top centre to have the text when first opening a book is still there, but the lengthy turning off into sleep mode unless to a blank page seems corrected.

Dictionaries work differently.
Before, when selecting for instance a word in a German book, its definition (in German) popped up in a small window, and if I wanted a full page, I had to click on the dictionary icon bottom left, then choose dictionary.
If I preferred a translation, I had to
1. select the dictionary icon
2. select translation dictionary
3. grumble when Kobo told me there was no German - French to be had and click top right to get the drop down list
4. select the German - English dictionary
5. et voilà, translation
Now, clicking on the dictionary icon gets the full page definition, and one click on the drop down list gets me the dictionary I'm looking for.
So in both cases one less click, plus one less grumble for translations.

To be continued with parameters menus