Poke 3 questions

[just_jeepin]

Originally Posted by mergen3107

Neo Reader doesn’t work outside Onyx firmware.

Thanks, I was hoping to try it, oh well.

Sent from my SM-N970U using Tapatalk

[Renate]

The Poke3 just got the 3.2.3 update.
http://firmware-us.boox.com/6855b438...1cb/update.upx
It weighs in at 1,494,770,603 bytes. Sigh.
I guess that I'd also complain if they were incremental. Sigh.

[kaznelson]

2022-06-23_12-07_3.2.3_f748951
2022-06-24 11:18:50

V3.2.3 Official Version
************************************
System and Applications
1. Optimize the display effect of the third-party apps in the Speed/A2 modes (such as the lines in the WPS table);
2. Optimize the page-turning effect of the Kind app (Filter page-turning animation);
3. Optimize some functions of the input method such as automatic addition of spaces, Case Lock, new symbols, etc;
4. Fix the problem that the pop-up window of moving files cannot turn pages;
5. Optimize some interface.

NeoReader
1. Optimize the picture display effect (It can be enabled in Menu-Contrast-Picture Smoothing);
2. Optimize the display effect of Dark Color Enhancement on black text;
3. Fix the overlapping problems of some PDF text;
4. Fix the problem that some documents cannot be opened;
5. Fix the refresh problem of link redirects on the color models;
6. Turn off the indicator for looking up words across pages (you can enable it in the Global Settings);
7. Optimize some interfaces.

[kaznelson]

2022-09-01_18-42_3.2.4_071fa5f
2022-09-02 10:20:47

V3.2.4 official version
(upgrade in batches, if it is not detected, it can be tested again the next day)
****************************************

Fix the abnormal problem of document highlighting;
Fix some known issues.

[Renate]

So with 1.5 GB updates every 3 months we need to download 6 GB/year?

ONYX/Poke3/Poke3:10/2022-09-01_18-42_3.2.4_071fa5f/7033:user/dev-keys
http://firmware-us.boox.com/2ad03992...0b3/update.upx

[Geremia]

Originally Posted by just_jeepin

Is there somewhere that I can download the Neo Reader apk to try it on my tablet?

I think it's an Onyx-branded version of AlReader.

[kaznelson]

2022-11-25_04-32_3.3.1_4c98746d8
V3.3.1
***********************************
Library / NeoReader
1. Reading data, including progress, annotation, highlight, can be synced across devices via Onyx Cloud;
2. Optimize the page loading speed of some large documents.

System / App
1. Add RSS subscription to Push Read;
2. Update App Optimization, EINK panel adjusts the optimization settings of the current APP;
3. System fonts can be changed;
4. Optimize ONYX keyboard style;
5. Add system gesture - bottom virtual navigation bar;
6. Add the function of app optimization - force to follow the system direction (rotation).

[Renate]

Mmm, the old gestures conflict a bit with the navbar.
I haven't looked, but I don't see yet how to disable the navbar.
I don't need no stinkin' navbar.

Oh, also, if you are using an older app (API 23, Marshmallow or earlier) you get strange black bars on the side as your app gets only part of the screen.

Maybe your app is trying to be too egalitarian. You just have to change the target SDK.

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" android:targetSdkVersion="25"/>

But note that this also causes problems with FileUriExposedException

Also, this does not work (even after reboot) as Onyx has screwed everything up:

$ settings put secure navigation_mode 2

Semi unrelated: Want some fun?

# pm enable com.android.systemui/com.android.systemui.tuner.TunerActivity
# am start -n com.android.systemui/com.android.systemui.tuner.TunerActivity

The Navigation preferences for other Onyx is here:
https://help.boox.com/hc/en-us/artic...on-Preferences
All I had to do was temporarily (since I normally have all the KCB stuff disabled):

# pm enable com.onyx
# am start -a com.onyx.action.SETTING
<then go to Gestures and hit NavBar, then hit Gestures>
# pm disable com.onyx

The settings are stored in /data/data/com.onyx/files/mmkv/KCB
Android has SQLite databases (*.db) and XML files for storing configurations and stuff.
So Onyx decided to use MMKV just to be different/annoying.
The actual implementation of gestures/navbar is in SystemUI.apk

And it seems to override apps that naturally want to be in landscape mode. Sigh.

[kaznelson]

Renate
Tell please, is it possible to rollback the firmware from 3.3.1 to 3.2.4 without disassembling the device?

[Renate]

Originally Posted by kaznelson

Is it possible to rollback the firmware from 3.3.1 to 3.2.4 without disassembling the device?

Yes, you probably can. You need to decrypt the 3.3.1 update then modify the script to not care about version. The first line can be removed:

(!less_than_int(1638337177, getprop("ro.build.date.utc"))) || abort("E3003: Can't install this package (Wed Dec  1 13:39:37 CST 2021) over newer build (" + getprop("ro.build.date") + ").");

I would really advise againt this. You don't want to get left behind. Whatever you're objecting to can probably be fixed so that you can keep up with updates.

[kaznelson]

OK, I fixed \update\META-INF\com\google\android\updater-script, and packaged it in update.zip
How can I start the firmware installation now? Via fastboot?

[Renate]

I'm not sure if the stock recovery has an update from zip option. Does it?
I usually use my custom recovery (because I can).

[kaznelson]

To my shame, I don't know how to quickly get into Poke 3 recovery. I usually get there after trying to downgrade the firmware from an upx file...

[Renate]

$ adb reboot recovery

[kaznelson]

...oops, adb reboot recovery

----------
Reboot system now
Reboot to bootloader
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
Mount /system
View recovery logs
Power off
----------

That's it, there's nothing else...


Part 1:

D:\Phone\ADB>fastboot update update.zip
--------------------------------------------
Bootloader Version...:
Baseband Version.....:
Serial Number........: XXXXXXXX
--------------------------------------------
archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'
fastboot: error: could not read android-info.txt

Part 2:

D:\Phone\ADB>fastboot update update.zip
--------------------------------------------
Bootloader Version...:
Baseband Version.....:
Serial Number........: XXXXXXXX
--------------------------------------------
extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM...
Checking 'product'                                 FAILED

Device product is 'sdm660'.
Update requires 'Poke3'.

fastboot: error: requirements not met!

Part 3:

D:\Phone\ADB>fastboot update update.zip
--------------------------------------------
Bootloader Version...:
Baseband Version.....:
Serial Number........: XXXXXXXX
--------------------------------------------
extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM...
Checking 'product'                                 OKAY [  0.000s]
extracting boot.img (12 MB) to disk... took 0.047s
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
Sending 'boot' (12637 KB)                          OKAY [  0.313s]
Writing 'boot'                                     OKAY [  0.141s]
archive does not contain 'init_boot.img'
archive does not contain 'dtbo.img'
archive does not contain 'dt.img'
archive does not contain 'pvmfw.img'
archive does not contain 'recovery.img'
archive does not contain 'vbmeta.img'
archive does not contain 'vbmeta_system.img'
archive does not contain 'vbmeta_vendor.img'
archive does not contain 'vendor_boot.img'
archive does not contain 'vendor_kernel_boot.img'
archive does not contain 'super_empty.img'
archive does not contain 'odm.img'
archive does not contain 'odm_dlkm.img'
archive does not contain 'product.img'
archive does not contain 'system.img'
fastboot: error: could not load 'system.img': No such file or directory

Need to think about unpacking system.new.dat.br and vendor.new.dat.br ...