Next model kobo? Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2

[Silverty]

Originally Posted by pocketsizevera

buggers! I was going to try hacking it this weekend if i get some free time. I guess you just saved me the trouble =P

Ooh yes. Please try.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Silverty

Ooh yes. Please try.

It would be pointless. The new home screen works differently to the tiled home screen. For the tiled home screen, the tiles displayed came from a table in the database. Adding or removing an entry to that table caused the tile to be displayed or removed. The new home screen doesn't use this table or any other that we can manipulate.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by davidfor

It would be pointless. The new home screen works differently to the tiled home screen. For the tiled home screen, the tiles displayed came from a table in the database. Adding or removing an entry to that table caused the tile to be displayed or removed. The new home screen doesn't use this table or any other that we can manipulate.

How does it decide the right side of the middle row? Do you know? Because I'm stuck with the las author with more than three books and at least one unread, no way to put a collection there, in any way.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

How does it decide the right side of the middle row? Do you know? Because I'm stuck with the las author with more than three books and at least one unread, no way to put a collection there, in any way.

That seems to be how the author is chosen, but, I haven't worked out when a collection appears. The strange thing is that I'm sure that every collection that has been displayed for me has been a series collection. I don't have that many other collections, so it might just be a coincidence.

[Terisa de morgan]

There is a table, AbTest, with some entries with validity date. In the Aura, with long validity dates, the collection do not appear, the author is at the second row. If I remove the entries in that table, the collection appear in the second row and the author appears in the first row when there are less than two books that I'm currently reading. So, I'm a happy camper now.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by davidfor

That seems to be how the author is chosen, but, I haven't worked out when a collection appears. The strange thing is that I'm sure that every collection that has been displayed for me has been a series collection. I don't have that many other collections, so it might just be a coincidence.

It's a coincidence, another collection is appearing for me (the last one I've opened with non read books).

[anacreon]

I've always had the last collection opened. But then all my collections have more than 3 books, and unread books.

[matrixsoul]

Anyone has the same green tint problem as with the Aura One ?

[moofychops]

Originally Posted by matrixsoul

Anyone has the same green tint problem as with the Aura One ?

None here now had H2O for 2 weeks and all the day/night light, same as the Aura is what I would call perfect. I really like the orange night reading glow in which the orange light is paler ( ? wrong word here perhaps) than what I would guess orange to be, but is a nice gentle light to read by.

[snoeki]

Originally Posted by Wicked John

Hello everyone!

I’m looking for ebook reader, I recently sold my Kobo aura and now I’m thinking of buying H2O2 or One, @snoeki I would like to ask you how many hours can u pull through with one full charge and if it is discharging while on sleep, I almost never powered off my Aura also some times I would do “marathon” reading all night and some more, I would rly hate it if it needs charging after 15-20 hours of reading with low light on.

I have to charge the ereader now, I have used it for 35 hours with light on 30% and no orange light used and wifi enabled. I did have to do some resets and I had to change accounts three times due to a problem with my kobo account (I couldn't download rented books anymore due to a third company, but all is solved now).

So I think it's safe to say you can read about 40 hours without wifi on this device at least. At least because I also uploaded hundreds of documents on it about four times, so I think this will have drained the battery also a bit more than you would normally have when you only read.

40+ hours is a good number, but not 2 months like kobo is telling everyone. Perhaps if you read one hour a day instead of 2 hours.

[robko]

Originally Posted by snoeki

40+ hours is a good number, but not 2 months like kobo is telling everyone. Perhaps if you read one hour a day instead of 2 hours.

I don't think that Kobo actually claims 2 months on the H2O2 (for the H2O2: "Last for weeks" with a disclaimer that it can vary with individual use). And while the 2 months is marketing BS, they do say that claim is based on reading a 1/2 hour a day with wifi off etc, so it's probably a valid claim presented in a very misleading way.

[snoeki]

I was just charging my ereader and thought: wait, I made a mistake. For me my ereader is empty when it hits the 25% energy left battery icon, but perhaps for most people this means: I can still read a lot.

So my calculations:

If you have a fully charged H2O with books on it and all books are indexed and if you have the light on 30% and if you have wifi enabled, you will get at least 50 hours reading without any problems. Perhaps a lot more, but it's difficult to test and I can't use my reading statistics to calculate because we have multiple kobo's overhere and we all use one account on all devices. So when my wife reads and I read the same day, the statistics get messed up.

[Wicked John]

Originally Posted by snoeki

If you have a fully charged H2O with books on it and all books are indexed and if you have the light on 30% and if you have wifi enabled, you will get at least 50 hours reading without any problems. Perhaps a lot more, but it's difficult to test and I can't use my reading statistics to calculate because we have multiple kobo's overhere and we all use one account on all devices. So when my wife reads and I read the same day, the statistics get messed up.

Thank you very much for the feedback, 40 hours are acceptable for me, the bottom line but acceptable, I am waiting for the device to be available in my country, they still sell the old H20, the One is expensive and the cpu sucks (for the 250€ with shipping that they ask) I don’t want to invest at a single core cpu and 1200mah battery, so I’m going with the middle ground 175€ so as to save a bit of money, if they release any decent device in the future I will sell again and buy the new One.

[moofychops]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myfBKswf6f0
Will it sell more H2Os

[PeterT]

Thats a rather old video... October, 2014