Desktop App KoboPatchFan - a GUI application for Kobo patches

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by bluebunny

yeah sorry I have dyslexia. kind of rude to call it out dude.

It's a common error. What happens is depending on where the typo occurs (lime in the topic title) can cause a search to fail because the search could be looking for the word calibre and not find it.

[Apollyon202]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's a common error. What happens is depending on where the typo occurs (lime in the topic title) can cause a search to fail because the search could be looking for the word calibre and not find it.

By the way I've heard the developer of Calibre pronounces it as "caliber" as he is from India which used to be a british colony therefore the English over there is more traditional compared to US English. But I would say the pronouncing should be the same as like "theatre" vs "theater". So Caliber it is... ;p

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Apollyon202

By the way I've heard the developer of Calibre pronounces it as "caliber" as he is from India which used to be a british colony therefore the English over there is more traditional compared to US English. But I would say the pronouncing should be the same as like "theatre" vs "theater". So Caliber it is... ;p

Sadly, the English pronunciation of calibre is kaləbər as is the pronunciation of caliber. Much like centre, theatre, microfibre, fibre, etc.

Also please note that calibre does not have a capital C at the start of it.

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Also please note that calibre does not have a capital C at the start of it.

It's a proper noun, so people are going to write Calibre, whether Kovid wants them to or not.

[Sirtel]

I often use capital C for calibre, although I know it's supposed to to be small. So that other people, who may not know this, would understand I mean the computer program calibre and not something else.

[ah924]

I have a Kobo Libra Color 2 device. I am not programmer nor I know or understand coding at advanced level.

I have the following mods installed on my KLC2 device:

NickelClock
NickelDBus
NickelMenu
KFmon
KOReader


I read about the KoboPatch and I decided to install this.

Upon after referring to the following URLs:

https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch-patches
https://github.com/folkemat/KoboPatchFan
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=356106


I proceeded to download and install the KoboPatchFan desktop application on my windows desktop.

After running the application, the application generated this message:

Found no patch for firmware 4.39.23027


After checking the current firmware/software version installed on my KLC2 device, i found that it has the following version installed:

4.40.23081 (8cd8ab046d, 8/19/24)


So the latest available patch from pgaskin's Github (https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch...leases/tag/v84) is 4.38.21908


Does that mean I cannot install this current latest patch for 4.38.21908 for my KLC2 at the moment ??


Please can someone help to clarify and guide me on exactly what to do to install KoboPatch to my KLC2 device

[hatuluang]

See post #129

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by hatuluang

I take these steps to use KoboPatchFanApp to patch Kobo Clara 2E (firmware 4.38.23038).
You can use the same step for KLC with firmware 4.40.23081

1. Download and unzip kobopatch_4.38.21908.zip from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=356106.

2. Go to the extraction folder of kobopatch_4.38.21908.zip, open the src folder, copy all the 4 files, and paste them into kobopatchfanapp folder on my Document (image 1 -> image 2/red box )

3. Download the latest kobo firmware (4.40.23081) for KLC from https://pgaskin.net/KoboStuff/kobofirmware.html and put kobo-update-4.40.23081.zip on src folder in kobopatchfanapp folder on my document (image 2/blue box)

4. Copy kobopatch.yaml from the extraction folder of kobopatch_4.38.21908.zip and put it on kobopatchfanapp folder on my Document (image 3)

5. Open kobopatch.yaml and replace the following text as displayed in image 4

6.

You started wrong by downloading the wrong the wrong patch file. Go back and read my directions.

[hatuluang]

Originally Posted by ah924

I read about the KoboPatch and I decided to install this.

Upon after referring to the following URLs:

https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch-patches
https://github.com/folkemat/KoboPatchFan
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=356106


I proceeded to download and install the KoboPatchFan desktop application on my windows desktop.

After running the application, the application generated this message:

Found no patch for firmware 4.39.23027


After checking the current firmware/software version installed on my KLC2 device, i found that it has the following version installed:

4.40.23081 (8cd8ab046d, 8/19/24)

Does that mean I cannot install this current latest patch for 4.38.21908 for my KLC2 at the moment ??


Please can someone help to clarify and guide me on exactly what to do to install KoboPatch to my KLC2 device

I take these steps to use KoboPatchFanApp to patch Kobo Clara 2E (firmware 4.38.23038).
You can use the same step for KLC with firmware 4.40.23081

1. Download kobopatch_4.38.21908.zip from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=356106, put it in kobopatchfanapp folder on my Document, replace the name of the zip file to kobopatch_4.40.23081.zip and extract it (image 01). The red boxes are the extracted folder and files from kobopatch_4.40.23081.zip

2. Download the latest kobo firmware (4.40.23081) for KLC from https://pgaskin.net/KoboStuff/kobofirmware.html and put kobo-update-4.40.23081.zip on src folder in kobopatchfanapp folder on my document (image 02)

3. Open kobopatch.yaml and replace the following text as displayed in image 03.
Reccomendation to use notepad++ to open yaml file.

4. There are changes of offset to several patches at kobopatch 4.40.23081.
You can see the change in https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=188.
You may need to replace the offset per patch accordingly.
Some patches are written in libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml and nickel.yaml in the src folder.

5. Change the offset of "allow info panel on random screensaver".
Open Kobopatchfanapp, go to section (2), click/select libnickel, find patch allow info panel on random screensaver, and click edit. Change the offset and save it. (image 04)

6. Continue to change the offset for other patches.

7. When you finish change the offset for all the patches. You can start doing the patch in Section (2) and Generate the patch in Section (3). Just follow the instructions from the kobopatchfanapp. (image 05)