Firmware 4.23.15548

[stiivo]

Im not sure if this is the right thread or if its known, but after installing this update + patches, I realised that if I go into KOReader and exit to default Nickel menu the usb connection is not triggered when connecting the usb cable. Rebooting the device sorts this out. Im not sure if this was the same before with the previous build.

[93terp]

Originally Posted by DrChiper

The plot thickens: so there must be "something" which determines when to display this entry. It is not related to:

• language
• config file
• affiliation
• version
• dev-mode

and to further thicken the plot - my devices were updated via a combination of OTA and manual updates....

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by stiivo

Im not sure if this is the right thread or if its known, but after installing this update + patches, I realised that if I go into KOReader and exit to default Nickel menu the usb connection is not triggered when connecting the usb cable. Rebooting the device sorts this out. Im not sure if this was the same before with the previous build.

I think this was fixed by NiLuJe in koreader recently.

[stiivo]

Originally Posted by geek1011

I think this was fixed by NiLuJe in koreader recently.

thats strange as i reinstalled OCP-Plato-0.9.2_KOReader-v2020.08.zip and still got the same issue :/

[NiLuJe]

@stiivo: It's fixed in current nightlies. It'll hit a stable hotfix (2020.08.1) Soon(TM).

[stiivo]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@stiivo: It's fixed in current nightlies. It'll hit a stable hotfix (2020.08.1) Soon(TM).

Awesome thanks for the update and apologies for pointing this out, im a quality assurance engineer by profession so sometimes its hard to switch that off lol

[NiLuJe]

All hail good QA people! .

[MustardOrMayo]

Originally Posted by koboy

the short lived Firmware 4.23.15505 and now (hot off the press) Firmware 4.23.15548 both have the scrollbar, the scrollbar appears wider with this release which is good, but neither Firmware as far as i can tell will let me type in a page number and go directly to that page. i have 950 pages of books and before Firmware's 4.23.15505/4.23.15548 i could go to any of those pages easily. where now i have no way of knowing which page in my book list i'm on.

if Kobo have dropped the type in the page number you want to go to i can't understand why they'd do that.

best wishes koboy

Yeah, I miss that too! I'd like to see a way to tap the scroll head to get that "Go to page" prompt! As I previously mentioned:

Originally Posted by MustardOrMayo

However, I do still miss the "Go to page" prompt, which was useful for navigating through my wish-list.

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

All hail good QA people! .

Yeah!

[NiLuJe]

On the subject of obscure minor fixes no-one in their right mind should ever notice: the DHCP client now only explicitly handles the Wi-Fi interface.

That was driving me a little bit nuts when USBNet was enabled, because it meant dhcpcd was spamming the syslog to its little heart's content when trying to handle an interface that's generally set-up statically, so, thanks .

[mirage]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@stiivo: It's fixed in current nightlies. It'll hit a stable hotfix (2020.08.1) Soon(TM).

Many thanks from me, too, for the quick fix on this and the WiFi issue.

[MustardOrMayo]

I got screenshots! Again!

I'll only be showing differences between this and firmware 4.23.15505. As such, click here to see the rest of the changes in this release.

This firmware release is a bugfix release, and I've only noticed the following:

1. Kobo forgot to include release notes in this release. Well, now they did!
   • However, only 3 out of my 4 Kobo e-readers show the release notes for this release:
     • Clara HD (OTA updated)
     • Glo HD (sideloaded update file)
     • Aura (second) (sideloaded update file)
   • The only one that seems to be displaying release notes for 4.22 instead of 4.23 is my first Aura (EDIT 2: sideloaded update file too), which is on the regular "kobo" affiliate like my Glo HD and Clara HD are, while my second Aura is on the Indigo Books affiliate ("KoboIndigo"), which I'm certain doesn't include a custom update channel.
2. Scrollbars have been tweaked.
   • They now have arrow buttons!
   • However, I still miss the "Go to page" prompt, and wish Kobo would bring that back and make it accessible by tapping on the scroll head without holding down and/or dragging.

I've decided to only show the revised scrollbar.

Don't mind the time displayed, as I'm very much a "night" person! However, if you're wondering why the clock is in 24-hour time in my screenshots, I followed someone else's suggestion on another thread that showed how to switch the date formats from US to UK so that I can get 24-hour time and day before month in dates. I still wish this was an officially supported feature, or at least accessible from the "Beta Features" menu.

[ZodWallop]

The arrows are a little change, but a nice one. I like the direction the firmware is going. I have noticed the changes have made me use more patches (I'm up to seven now), but once patched, I like the firmware updates.

Now if they would put the same level of care into kepub rendering, I'd be a happy customer.

[the.Mtn.Man]

Originally Posted by DNSB

OTOH, I do miss typing in a random number to pick a random read.

Personally, I'd love an "open random book" feature.

[the.Mtn.Man]

Originally Posted by brudigia

I definitely appreciate the arrows to scroll one page at a time. They are manageable on my KA1, but they are still small, so I wonder how manageable they are on smaller screens.

Perfectly usable on 6" screen.

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man

Personally, I'd love an "open random book" feature.

Or open random book in this category , series, author, articles, etc.