Instructions for patching firmware 4.11.11980

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by davidfor

You might also want them to go into the Logging Category settings and change the the logged categories. I don't know which will be used for the buttons, but, turning off the frontlight, sync, packetdump and wifi options will reduce the size of the log a lot.

They can also go back into the developers options and do a "Save log" after the test. That will create a timestamped file that will stop at that point.

The input category is used for the buttons.

[NiLuJe]

@geek1011: A KOReader log snippet might be of interest here, if only as a x-ref

EDIT: (Next -> Prev).

[forster01]

Great job mate!!! Thanks.
And please add my vote for reducing top margin in epubs.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@geek1011: A KOReader log snippet might be of interest here, if only as a x-ref

EDIT: (Next -> Prev).

That's perfect. So it seems like the keycodes are just the usual keys. Thanks!

Originally Posted by forster01

Great job mate!!! Thanks.
And please add my vote for reducing top margin in epubs.

No problem! As for the top margins, don't get too excited, as it's one of the trickiest things to debug so far. I'll probably end up figuring it out, but unless some kind of brainwave comes over me, it will probably be a while.

[forster01]

Thanks again

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by geek1011

I've released patches v26 with a new "Change pop-up footnote font-family" patch by me

This patch was made at the request of jackie_w:


You're welcome! The reason why it didn't work for you is that even though the RegularTouchLabel is used in the ConfirmationDialog, the ConfirmationDialog>#text styling overrides it.

Now, I have 2 more requests to do (I've done 3!): the page turn buttons (waiting for RobertJSawyer to send me logs), and the large top/bottom margins when headers/footers are disabled.

You weren't supposed to do them all in one night! What will you do tomorrow? You must really be in the Zone.

Thank you for this. It's late here, so I'll give the footnotes a thorough workout tomorrow when my brain's working better.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by rogerinnyc

1. On the Forma, I'd love to have the option to have the physical page buttons ALWAYS trigger page forward -- i.e., toggle up OR toggle down. My grip shifts, so sometimes one toggle direction is more natural for me than the other, but I always want to be going forward. If I need to go backwards (rarely) I can just swipe.

Can you try this in libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml and tell me if it works?

Both page turn buttons go next:
  - Enabled: yes
  - Description: |
      Might make both page turn buttons on the Forma go next. Still testing.
  # In ReadingView::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent*):
  # nop the possible branch to prev page, falling through to the next page no matter what.
  - ReplaceBytes: {Offset: 0x9E378A, FindH: 2E B1, ReplaceH: 00 46}

EDIT: jackie_w has tested it, and it does work. I'm releasing this now in v27.

[rogerinnyc]

You are on fire! I just got home from work and was about to try to figure out how to get you your requested logs when I saw you had already moved on! Amazing. I'm running out for the evening, so I won't get to try this until tomorrow some time, but I most definitely will (if someone doesn't beat me to it first). Thanks so much.

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by rogerinnyc

You are on fire! I just got home from work and was about to try to figure out how to get you your requested logs when I saw you had already moved on! Amazing. I'm running out for the evening, so I won't get to try this until tomorrow some time, but I most definitely will (if someone doesn't beat me to it first). Thanks so much.

jackie_w just beat you to it . It works perfectly. I'm releasing it now in v27.

[geek1011]

I've released patches v27 with a new "Both page turn buttons go next" patch by me

This patch makes both physical page turn buttons go next in the reader on the Kobo Forma. This patch was made at the request of rogerinnyc.

If anyone has any other requests (other than the reader top margins one), feel free to ask.

[mountian]

# Missing since 4.5.9587
# Custom page refresh options

...It is possible to combine the patches before and add this opptions again? Thanks!

[pickyaxe]

geek1011: can you please make this patch (Pocket article delete default to "Pocket Account")? Thanks so much for your continued work.

[codychan]

Look at the remarkable work geek1011 has done, I feel so happy for him and excited, I wonder how can I learn to hack kobo device and make patch like geek1011 does, is there any reference or guide?

[codychan]

About the following patch

- libnickel: Set swipe to unlock (by geek1011)

I already posted a comment on this commit page of github(https://github.com/geek1011/kobopatc...3c4f02c8f87863 ), I'll paste it here.

"Set slide to unlock" patch is a little confusing, by default, the firmware of Kobo Forma enables the feature, and you have to swipe to unlock the screen.

So the "Set slide to unlock" patch, I though, "Enabled: yes" means do not change it and you have to swipe to unlock, since I don't want this feature, so I set it "Enabled: no", after installing patches, I found this feature is still there, so I changed it back to "Enabled: yes" and reinstalled the patches, then, it was gone.

So I believe this patch need a little or extra comment.

[Martina Schein]

@geek1011, thanks a lot for the patches and your phantastic work.

It works very fine on my Kobo Aura H2O, 2nd Edition, Version 1.