08-17-2019, 07:58 PM | #106 |
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08-17-2019, 08:20 PM | #107 |
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Thanks to everyone
Many, many thanks to everyone that helped me out. I got everything to work and I'm back in the reading zone.
Much appreciation and awe to the great group of readers and techies in the group. Trice |
09-01-2019, 11:42 PM | #108 |
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Can't believe I've only just found out about Kobo patching after having had one for a couple of years. Back in the Sony PRS days I used to play around a lot with patches.
Anyways, I'm a Windows user but prefer my Unixy environments, including doing as much as possible with Cygwin on Windows. This little patch lets me run kobopatch from Cygwin using kobopatch.sh instead of needlessly needing me to fire up a CMD shell in the right folder . Code:
--- kobopatch.sh.ORIG 2019-07-18 12:16:00.000000000 +1000 +++ kobopatch.sh 2019-09-02 13:35:38.857097400 +1000 @@ -23,4 +23,7 @@ echo "Unsupported architecture" esac ;; -esac + CYGWIN_NT*) + ./bin/koboptch-windows.exe + ;; +esac |
09-03-2019, 10:52 PM | #109 |
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Hi. I have a 3-week-old baby Forma. I have done no hacking/patching to it. If I follow the instructions on this thread to patch, will that get in the way of the other hacks/tweaks available on this DevCorner subforum?
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09-04-2019, 07:42 AM | #110 | |
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And about @snarkophilus's changes, I've committed them here for the next version: https://github.com/geek1011/kobopatc...490f2361bfbc46 . Thanks! |
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09-04-2019, 01:06 PM | #111 | |
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thanks so much for your post, and writing about mods by name. I'm not familiar with any of them (because I'm a noob who's done no modding/patching/hacking on my Forma yet), but I think I'll get to know them as I keep reading up on this subforum. ANother question. If I patch the firmware following the instructions on post#1, can I undo the patch, just in case? And is it easy to undo the patch (again, just in case)? |
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09-04-2019, 01:19 PM | #112 | |
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Alternatively you could do a manual re-install of the correct firmware (over the top of the patched firmware) which also wipes out all patches. |
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09-04-2019, 02:07 PM | #113 | |
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I've done steps 1 and 2. About step 3: Should I extract/unzip "kobo-update-4.15.12920.zip" (the firmware) first? Or do I just move that zip file (unextracted) into the unzipped "/kobopatch_4.15.12920/src/" folder? About step 4: How exactly do I *install* the firmware? Last edited by droopy; 09-04-2019 at 02:12 PM. |
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09-04-2019, 02:11 PM | #114 |
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09-04-2019, 02:22 PM | #115 |
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Ok. I did step 3, as jackie suggested.
Now how exactly do i do step 4 ("Install the firmware")? |
09-04-2019, 02:46 PM | #116 |
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09-04-2019, 03:06 PM | #117 |
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You can also proceed up until step 7 without worry. Perhaps do that so you can ask all questions at once rather than having to ask individually and wait for a reply each time
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09-04-2019, 06:09 PM | #118 | |
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https://cheat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kobo.html I say probably, because I did the Wi-Fi thing instead. NOTE to the nice folks in this thread: The patching system and tweaks here are awesome. But I was as confused as droopy the first time I tried patching. The reason is that there are no instructions for updating the firmware in the first post. Step #4 just says do it. While the procedure is second nature to you, a newbie may not know what to do. It might be a good idea to add the original firmware install instructions or a link to them in the first post. |
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09-04-2019, 06:58 PM | #119 | ||
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Does this mean I can skip from Step 3 directly to Step 5? Question about Step 5: What exactly must I do? I see these 5 files: 1. download_firmware_here.txt 2.libadobe.so.yaml 3. libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml 4. librmsdk.so.1.0.0.yaml 5. nickel.yaml UPDATE: On my Linux computer, I tried to do Step 6. First, I ran Code:
chmod +x kobopatch.sh Code:
./kobopatch.sh Quote:
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09-04-2019, 07:27 PM | #120 |
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Step 4 is about installing fw 4.15.12920 on your Kobo, which you don't need to do because you've said it's already been installed via wi-fi.
However, you do still need to download and place a copy of kobo-update-4.15.12920.zip in the src subdirectory (on your Linux machine) so that kobopatch can extract the files it needs (there are 1-4 of them depending which patches you enable) so it can apply your chosen patches to those files. |
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