11-04-2013, 07:59 PM | #1 |
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Removed percent from book progress bar K2 K3 K4 K5 PW1
Tested on a K2, K3, K4, K5 and PW.
This little utility will overwrite the somewhat annoying "Progress Indicator" at the bottom of the page. it's an evolution from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=207020 and https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=139049 until a better solution is found. Hope it helps. |
11-04-2013, 08:00 PM | #2 |
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The UGLY Donkey work:
PHP Code:
Feel free to improve on that. |
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07-29-2014, 03:11 AM | #3 |
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When I activate the script it works as described, but after a while (~10 changed pages) it stops working. Tested on my K4 NT. Any idea what happens here?
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08-21-2014, 03:06 PM | #4 |
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Hi !
Just wanted to say thank you for this extenstion. It really saved me, as I was driving crazy with this useless percentage while reading (my attention kept focusing on it !). THANK YOU ! |
08-31-2014, 06:01 AM | #5 |
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@Arcteek So it doesn't stop working for you after a while?
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09-06-2014, 11:03 AM | #6 |
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I unfortunately have the same problem after all, making the use of my Kindle very annoying, I can't stand this percentage, it feels like I'm in a video game.
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09-06-2014, 12:52 PM | #7 |
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I'm guessing it's because of tail using the -f flag instead of -F, which was probably a conscious decision by twobob, and not a typo (most likely because the busybox version is too old on legacy devices).
There might be hope for the K4, though, see if changing -f to -F in the K4 case helps? |
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(For the K4, K5, PW devices - I can churn out a K3 and maybe K2 version also if wanted). Note 1: When referencing it, it is in */esys/... rather than */extensions/system/... since there was a pathname length problem in editing elf files. Note 2: The Buildroot 2014.08 release will build the elf file editor for your host system now. I convinced the maintainers it was a "good thing" to have on hand for system file editing. I promise to get back to that project as soon as time allows. (And I am trying to find where twobob is buried at and seeing if he can be re-animated.) Last edited by knc1; 09-07-2014 at 11:50 AM. |
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09-07-2014, 07:17 AM | #9 |
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Thanks all of you for your effort. I'll thankfully monitor this thread. :-)
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09-07-2014, 12:36 PM | #10 |
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Hi,
Thank you for your help ! Unfortunately changing the "-f" by "-F" actually made it worse, the script not working at all anymore... And I'm afraid I'm too much of a newbie to understand the Busybox part... |
09-07-2014, 12:58 PM | #11 |
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That confirms my suspicion that it was indeed by design, thanks for checking ;p.
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03-31-2017, 06:35 PM | #12 |
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Ignore solution found. Anyone else searching here what i did
just touch the left corner where it say how much time you have left to read it will change the format and there is one where it doesnt display time Last edited by PECONAUT; 03-31-2017 at 06:46 PM. |
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The feature you describe is not available on the topic devices here. |
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