PRS+: Enhanced firmware for Sony Reader, Folders, Games & more

[culverg]

Kartu, PRS+ is amazing, definitely a great enhancement!
Just successfully performed the Sony upgrade to 14080 on my PRS-650, then used your .exe installer for 2.0.12 beta, everything is working great except for Sudoku. When I start it just freezes and is unresponsive to any touch screen input or button except quit.

Anything I can tweak to get this working, or just wait for next release?

Before posting I read throught the PDF help file and searched this forum, didn't see anyone report a similar problem, so forgive me if this has already been addressed. Would be glad to provide any info you need to help resolve.

Thanks again for all the hard work!

[Mark Nord]

culverg

Just checked Sudoku, it's working fine on my PRS-650 with PRS+2.0.12 beta (unmodified)
You just have to start a game!
Menu GAME - RANDOM/NEXT/SELECT will do the trick.
HTH
Mark

[culverg]

Originally Posted by Mark Nord

culverg

Just checked Sudoku, it's working fine on my PRS-650 with PRS+2.0.12 beta (unmodified)
You just have to start a game!
Menu GAME - RANDOM/NEXT/SELECT will do the trick.
HTH
Mark

Well now I feel like an idiot and announced to the world I'm a noob...didn't realize GAME and LEVEL were menu items and don't think i ever touched that exact part of the screen.
Thanks for setting me straight!

[dpierron]

kartu,

Since uninstalling using the new automatic uninstaller (May 30th), I reinstalled the new version (2.0.12beta) and it works flawlessly...

No battery drain, no false button presses, nothing.

I guess it came from some residual code that was left in place until I used your uninstaller, maybe by the russified firmware, or the previous version of PRS+.

Anyway, thanks for your help and your amazing firmware !

Now, go work on these custom dictionaries

[encapuchado]

Hi guys. I'm sorry if this question has been answered before. I browsed this thread and couldn't find a clear answer.

I have a PRS650 with the original firmware. My question is if I can just run the installer (PRSP_650_2.0.12beta_setup.exe) in order to have PRS+ or if I need to do something else first?

Thanks in advance.

[culverg]

Originally Posted by encapuchado

Hi guys. I'm sorry if this question has been answered before. I browsed this thread and couldn't find a clear answer.

I have a PRS650 with the original firmware. My question is if I can just run the installer (PRSP_650_2.0.12beta_setup.exe) in order to have PRS+ or if I need to do something else first?

Thanks in advance.

I was in the same boat as you a few days ago. It depends on which version of the firmware you have. Sony released a firmware update to get you to version 1.0.00.14080. You can check this by going to Settings > About on your PRS-650, near the bottom is the version number. If you have 14080 then yes, kurtu's setup.exe is all you need.

If you're like I was and on an earlier verison, it gets a little more complicated. You can give it a go and download Sony's upgrade to 14080 firmware from the Sony style support website (google for "prs-650 and 14080"), which is what I had to do and had no problems. Apparently Sony's firmware upgrade has crashed a few ereaders, so some folks have figured out how to get PRS+ 2.12 beta without upgrading, check a few pages back in this thread.

Good luck, it's definitely worth the time to upgrade to PRS+!

[encapuchado]

Thanks for the answer culverg. Yes, I have the old version 1.0.00.08100.

I will try to read how I can install PRS+ without installing Sony's new version of firmware.

[Ripplinger]

I have firmware .08100, I didn't want to update after reading about some problems. I had installed PRS+ 2.0.10 and nothing special had to be done at all. If kartu keeps older versions of PRS+ available, you could just install that one. I'm not sure what additional features are in PRS+ 2.0.12 though that you might be missing, or if it was primarily bug fixes. I'm not having any issues or problems at all using the older version.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by encapuchado

Hi guys. I'm sorry if this question has been answered before. I browsed this thread and couldn't find a clear answer.

I have a PRS650 with the original firmware. My question is if I can just run the installer (PRSP_650_2.0.12beta_setup.exe) in order to have PRS+ or if I need to do something else first?

Thanks in advance.

I documented some detailed instructions on doing exactly this a few days ago in this thread. Here's the link.

[surquizu]

Originally Posted by Mark Nord

2nd try
Found this code
and copied it to
core_ui_menu.js

This way "pictures" and "audio" are populated.
HTH
Mark

Mark, I copy this code into core_ui_menu.js and do not work on my 505. What am I doing wrong?

				// Create prs+ containers ("Multimedia", "Games & Utils" etc)
				for (i = 0, n = customContainers.length; i < n; i++) {
					container = customContainers[i];
					nodeMap[container.name] = Core.ui.createContainerNode({
						title: coreL(container.title),
						kind: container.kind,
						icon: container.icon
					});
					if (container.name==="multimedia") {audioAndPicturesNode = nodeMap[container.name];}
					
				}
				
				
	// update from ContainerNode doesn't work for whatever reason, probably it is accessing the wrong "nodes"
	audioAndPicturesNode.update = function (model) {
	var i;
	for ( i = 0, n = this.nodes.length; i < n; i++) {
			if (this.nodes[i].update) {
				this.nodes[i].update.call(this.nodes[i], model);
			}
		}
	};

[encapuchado]

I just installed PRS+ version 2.0.10 on my 650 with original firmware. The installation went smoothly and now I'm playing sudoku . This kartu guy is a genius.

Thanks to all who answered my doubts.

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by surquizu

Mark, I copy this code into core_ui_menu.js and do not work on my 505. What am I doing wrong?

I missed to copy at least one line in the code-snippet:
I added audioAndPicturesNode to the var statement.

But please be aware, that this code modification breaks PRS+ on PRS-x50!
Will see if I can find a way around, or if kartu (who is silent for more then a week now, hope he is well) will point the correct solution.

Regards
Mark

[VICTORSJG]

Mark, where did you copy "audioAndPicturesNode to the var statement" into core_ui_menu.js?

thanks

[Mark Nord]

Here for the impatient PRS-505 owners (Victorsjq, Surquizu ) the promised copy of my Beta-Folder.

Copy the folder Beta to the root of your SD-Card and restart / connect-unconnect form USB.

If Beta is loaded correctly, you will get a German - UI!

Modifications to kartus 2.0.12 beta are

• core_ui_menu.js to reanable Picture and Audio-Nodes
  (attention this will break PRS+ on all readers except 300/505!!)
• addons (latest code taken from apps repository)

Code supports all new icons (including BOMB), but to show them kBookIcon.png had to be flashed!

Not included in this extended Beta is

• hold-events for joystick
• standby-image

as this, too, would need some flashing of firmware files.
(Maybe I will come up with a custom installer next weekend)

Regards
Mark

[anabolina]

I tried going back a few pages to find the answer to see if anyone else is having problems flashing PRS+. I picked up my 950 yesterday afternoon and decided to experiment a bit with the intent of changing the fonts on the 950 at some point. Here's what I did with my Windows 7 64 bit:

1. Tried to install PRS+, but my firmware needed to be updated by Sony first.
2. Installed Sony updated firmware.
3. Ran PRS+ installer a second time and let it connected to the system while I did something else. I came back and it was done so I disconnected it and per the instructions, I turned it off and turned it back on again, or at least I think I did. Although I have slept since then lol.
4. Hooked up the reader and noticed there was now a PRSPlus folder in the database folder with only a epub folder inside it.
5. Moved over some music and books to the reader. Read up on changing fonts and decided to wait until the weekend.
6. Noticed that the firmware looked no different then the Sony version(no folder, different setting options, etc) and tried restarting reader again in case I didn't do it last night.
7. Reader get's stuck in a loop with Opening Book?!? I let it go for 20 minutes before giving up and trying to reset it.
8. Pressed reset, tried the power slider, tried connecting it to the computer. Ended up long-pressing reset and the holding the power slider, but that didn't work, but after doing so, I hooked it up to the computer and then it connected and I was able to uninstall the PRS+ and no longer have any problems restarting the 950.

So does anyone see where I missed something or failed to do something. I noticed that at one point, the instructions from the PRS+ website say to make sure your reader is not connected to a computer when restarting and I made sure it wasn't and that had no effect.

ETA: I almost forgot to mention that I did try uninstalling and reinstalling PRS+ and the same inability to start thing happened.