08-11-2013, 07:32 PM | #436 | |
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I used the 04 version of the patcher which comes with the 2.6.1 and 2.8.1 configuration and libnickel files. I had to run the post through a translator since my Russian is very rusty (a couple of years of university Russian for the Sciences decades ago). There is a link in PeterT's sticky at the start of the Developer Corner but last time I looked it had the link to the 03 patcher. The 04 patcher is at http://rghost.net/47967901. When I first installed it, had fun resetting the font size and line spacing sliders. There is an occasional issue with lines moving to the next page but that seems to be an issue anytime the line height is set below 1.2 which might be why Kobo originally set the minimum line height to 1.225. I have also had a couple of syncs that took a lot longer than prior to trying the patch but not sure is that is a patcher issue or not since long sync times have been mentioned for quite a while. For me, the bigger item was disabling the WiFi auto off since it was a pain making sure WiFi was on when I tried a telnet or ftp session. Good luck! Regards, David |
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08-11-2013, 09:51 PM | #437 | |
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Do you notice a difference in battery life with WiFi on all the time? I assume you can still manually toggle off Wifi if you want? One scenario I hope the Kobo will work for me is to have good battery life in case of the rare extended power outage (atlantic hurricane season!). |
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08-12-2013, 12:37 AM | #438 | |
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08-12-2013, 03:43 AM | #439 |
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I applied that MZ_04 patch and for starters only activated the footer part, worked like a charm for me and did what I wanted it to do, to give me two more lines of text.
Edit: After doing that on a few but not all pages I still noticed one missing line, so added "body {orphans: 0; widows: 0;}" to the css in calibre and now Everything looks like I wanted it to on all pages. Odd though, that for that to accomplish I have to patch the Firmware and re-css my ebook, can't imagine non computer afine people doing that, guess they just stay unhappy if they had the same wishes as I did or complain to Kobo support... THX for pushing me in the right direction... Last edited by miyata; 08-12-2013 at 04:41 AM. |
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08-13-2013, 12:17 PM | #442 | |
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As a developer myself, I would definitely give the user options. That doesn't mean you need pointless options for every little thing, but there have been a lot of requests for the things in Metazoa's patch, so to me it seems like a case of not getting the job done. |
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[FeatureSettings] Screenshots=true The screenshots are saved in the root of the main memory. |
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08-18-2013, 09:35 AM | #446 |
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Yesterday updated my Aura to 2.8.1 and now I think it's flickering way more when looking up a word in a dictionary. When holding down a word, it flashes once to show a toolbar at the bottom of the page; then it flashes again to show the definition. When closing the definition, the screen flickers twice in rapid succession.
I don't remember it doing that before or maybe I'm just imagining. Does anyone else have this problem? |
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08-18-2013, 11:26 AM | #448 |
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08-18-2013, 02:02 PM | #449 |
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My Aura has just recently updated to 2.8.1, and I'm noticing a page-turn bug where, sporadically, a tap on the right of the screen makes the screen flash (like the regular sixth-page refresh, but it's not due) and then, in rapid succession it turns three pages. I'm pretty sure I'm not multiple-tapping.
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08-18-2013, 02:28 PM | #450 |
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I've had white (blank screen) flashes occasionally on a page turn after updating to 2.8.1, but previously had never seen them.
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