Touch Firmware 2.5.2 sideloaded fonts problem

[VirgoGirl]

Hi,

I sideloaded my fonts after updating a week or so ago. However, while they show up on the fonts list, they don't change to those fonts when they are selected. The default Kobo fonts work, the books themselves don't have imbedded fonts, the new ones just don't show up.

I put them into a folder called "fonts" on the reader itself, not in the .kobo folder. Anyone else have any problems with sideloaded fonts?

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by VirgoGirl

Hi,

I sideloaded my fonts after updating a week or so ago. However, while they show up on the fonts list, they don't change to those fonts when they are selected. The default Kobo fonts work, the books themselves don't have imbedded fonts, the new ones just don't show up.

I put them into a folder called "fonts" on the reader itself, not in the .kobo folder. Anyone else have any problems with sideloaded fonts?

Did you remember to do a full shutdown/restart after loading them?

[VirgoGirl]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Did you remember to do a full shutdown/restart after loading them?

Monkeys! Nope, I haven't powered off/powered on, just the "processing files". Arrgh, I hate powering off.

THANK YOU for the help!!!

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Did you remember to do a full shutdown/restart after loading them?

Beat me to it.

Regards,
David

[VirgoGirl]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Beat me to it.

Regards,
David

Did it, which bricked the KT. It hangs when rebooting with the SD card in it, then freezes if I remove the card, reset with paperclip, reboot, then insert sd card. Hey, but the fonts are there. :s

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by VirgoGirl

Did it, which bricked the KT. It hangs when rebooting with the SD card in it, then freezes if I remove the card, reset with paperclip, reboot, then insert sd card. Hey, but the fonts are there. :s

With my Aura HD, I thought it was freezing on a power on with about 1700 books on the uSD card. I noted the same thing you've seen where booting without the uSD card was not sensitive to how many books I had on the internal storage. I finally realized it wasn't freezing when I went to bed one night with the intention of dealing with the issue in the morning. In the morning, I found my Aura HD all booted up and ready to go -- later testing showed it took well over an hour from power on to being ready to go though the test methodology was pretty poor -- took it to work, power off, power on and check back once in a while to see if it had finished booting

When 2.6.1 came out, the boot time with uSD card improved and 2.8.1 cut the time even shorter. Tech support basically says that they are aware of the problem and it is being worked on.

You might want to try updating your Touch to 2.8.1 and see if you see an improvement in the boot time though this will require sideloading the update.

Regards,
David

[VirgoGirl]

I'm not sure if that will work on my Touch, though.

Today I'm trying the sideloaded firmware steps, to 2.4. I'm so frustrated, but I don't knwo if it's a hardware issue or a firmware issue.

Back in August, on firmware 2.1.5, I added some books to the SD card through drag and drop, ejected the reader. It then processed for 45 minutes - never did that before - booted up and all my Kpubs and a few sideloaded epubs were "gone" from the machine. They were still on the physical card/ reader, but they were not displayed in the data base.

Same thing happened last night, using 2.5.2. I had all the books on my reader memory - 1,200 of them - when I added 3 books, the same thing happened. Except only my kpubs were displayed.

I can't tell if it's firmware or hardware issue, and that's frustrating.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by VirgoGirl

I'm not sure if that will work on my Touch, though.

I've updated two older Touches to 2.8.1 and so far no complaints. The first one I was replacing the internal uSD card with a larger one so I have no worries about not being able to restore the Touch if it bricked.

Regards,
David