Instructions for patching firmware 4.33.19759

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by Deobulakenyo

Can this notification (see attached picture) be somehow controlled in a patch whereby one can fix it here in the stat as a shortcut to that; or in the other notification like one for pocket, etc?

Yes, those are the SmartLink patches.

[asettico]

Originally Posted by rtiangha

That is the most geeky way I've seen to manage this. Respect.

I learn all the time from others...

Originally Posted by rtiangha

For those on Windows or who don't have access to the diff/patch command line utilities...

Since we are talking to geeks, you can also use Cygwin and still use those utilities. For the sake of bashers, I attached my script: in case of error, I manually fix the rejected files.

Originally Posted by rtiangha

Many paths up the mountain, lol.

Absolutely true, like the IDIC. (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations)

[DannyY]

After updating Kobo readers for a few years now, I forgot that one crucial step in the instructions to "Install the firmware on your kobo BEFORE proceeding" this time.

It's now stuck on the updating three dots screen.

Is there a way back from this?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DannyY

After updating Kobo readers for a few years now, I forgot that one crucial step in the instructions to "Install the firmware on your kobo BEFORE proceeding" this time.

It's now stuck on the updating three dots screen.

Is there a way back from this?

You are going to have to perform a manual factory reset.

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017765853

[DannyY]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You are going to have to perform a manual factory reset.

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017765853

I see. I'll try that one. That'll teach me, eh.

Thanks for your advice.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DannyY

I see. I'll try that one. That'll teach me, eh.

Thanks for your advice.

If you've been backing up your database with Kobo Utilities, you'll be able to restore it and all of your books.

[DannyY]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If you've been backing up your database with Kobo Utilities, you'll be able to restore it and all of your books.

That worked. Took me a few attempts to get it right and quite a time in Calibre trying to get the list of books that was in the database to match the ones in the selection.

I'm really glad I set up the auto daily Calibre database backups.

Thanks for all your help.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DannyY

That worked. Took me a few attempts to get it right and quite a time in Calibre trying to get the list of books that was in the database to match the ones in the selection.

I'm really glad I set up the auto daily Calibre database backups.

Thanks for all your help.

There's one other thing you can do to help with backups. You can use the Reading List plugin and a custom Y/N column to keep track of which book are on your Reader.

[JSWolf]

The patch Allow rotation on all devices: does not prevent auto rotate. Can a patch be created to stop auto rotate? Thanks.

[jesson345]

The patch:Un-Force user font-family in KePubs,is still invalid？

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jesson345

The patch:Un-Force user font-family in KePubs,is still invalid？

This patch is in the patches for 4.33.19759.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by jesson345

The patch:Un-Force user font-family in KePubs,is still invalid？

Originally Posted by JSWolf

This patch is in the patches for 4.33.19759.

@jesson345,

This patch is still available, unchanged for many years and still works the same as it has always worked.

If you're having difficulty with font-family in kepubs it's much more likely that the problem is caused by the major changes Kobo made to font handling in fw 4.32.xxxxx and onwards. To be sure I'd need to look at the CSS inside one of your problematic books. It's unlikely that Kobo see the current situation as a bug which needs fixing. Kobo's guidelines on fonts specifically state:

Content creators are advised against referencing fonts in the CSS that are not embedded in the ePub.

[413Michele]

With this one, it's two releases that flashing the patch has no effect. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, it's the same three patches I've always used, and they always worked on my Libra 2 until a short time ago

Has anyone had this problem? The other firmware in which it didn't work is 4.33.19611

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by 413Michele

With this one, it's two releases that flashing the patch has no effect. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, it's the same three patches I've always used, and they always worked on my Libra 2 until a short time ago

Has anyone had this problem? The other firmware in which it didn't work is 4.33.19611

Here is my kobopatch.yaml file. You can have a look and see if there's anything you may be doing incorrectly. If after you've seen it, I can send you my KoboRoot.tgz file. It's for the Libra 2.

## Works with kobopatch v0.15.0 and later.
## You can update kobopatch by downloading the latest release from https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch/releases. 
version: 4.33.19759
in: src/kobo-update-4.33.19759.zip
out: out/KoboRoot.tgz
log: out/log.txt

patchFormat: kobopatch

patches:
  src/nickel.yaml: usr/local/Kobo/nickel
  src/nickel_custom.yaml: usr/local/Kobo/nickel
  src/libadobe.so.yaml: usr/local/Kobo/libadobe.so
  src/libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml: usr/local/Kobo/libnickel.so.1.0.0
  src/librmsdk.so.1.0.0.yaml: usr/local/Kobo/librmsdk.so.1.0.0

## You can put lines in the following section to override the enabled state of patches.
## The indentation matters! Each override should be indented by 4 spaces. Add to the 
## section below. This section can be copy and pasted into newer patch versions to
## keep your selections.
##
## Example of how it should look:
## overrides:
##   src/nickel.yaml:
##     Custom synopsis/details line spacing: yes
##     Whatever the yaml is called: no
##   src/libadobe.so.yaml:
##     You get the idea: yes
overrides: 
   src/libadobe.so.yaml:
     Remove PDF map widget shown during panning: no
   src/libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml:
     My 10 line spacing values: no
## Customized
     My 24 line spacing values: yes
     Custom left & right margins: yes
     Custom font sizes: yes
     ePub fixed top/bottom margins: no
     ePub disable built-in body padding-bottom: yes
     Custom kepub default margins: yes
     Block WiFi firmware upgrade: no
     Custom Sleep/Power-off timeouts: yes
     Set KePub hyphenation: yes
     Force user line spacing in KePubs: no
     Force user line spacing in ePubs (part 1 of 2): no
     Un-force font-family override p tags (std epubs): no
     Force user font-family in ePubs (Part 1 of 2): no
     ePub constant font sharpness: yes
     Un-Force user text-align in div,p tags in KePubs: no
     Un-Force user font-family in KePubs: yes
     Un-force link decoration in KePubs: no
## Customized
     Dictionary text font-family/font-size/line-height: yes
     Custom navigation menu page number text: yes
     KePub stylesheet additions - text justify: no
## Customized
     KePub stylesheet additions - word-spacing: yes
     Shorten dictionary entry not found message: yes
     Change Wikipedia search language: no
     Cyrillic Keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2): no
     Greek Keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2): no
     Bulgarian Phonetic Keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2/Forma/Libra): no
     Don't grab exclusive access to event0: no
     Both page turn buttons go next: no
     Both page turn sides go next: no
     Increase page navigation history: yes
     Replace adobe page numbers toggle with invert screen: yes
     Always show confirmation dialog before upgrading: no
     Allow USB storage even when device locked: no
     Hide browser from beta features: no
     Remove beta features not supported text: no
     Disable all tutorial dialogs: no
     Remove recommendations (row1col2) from home screen: yes
     Rename new home screen footer: no
     Remove line from bottom tab bar: no
     Change Browse Kobo home screen link target - Activity: no
     Set visible SmartLink: no
     Only show Pocket SmartLink: no
     Only show stats SmartLink: no
     Never show Kobo Plus, wishlist, and points SmartLinks: no
     Allow showing info panel on random screensaver: no
     Remove title from reading header/footer: no
     Larger Sleep/Power-off timeouts: no
     Allow rotation on all devices: yes
     Don't uppercase header/footer text: no
     Custom header/footer page number text: no
     Don't uppercase header/footer text and change page number text: yes
     Swap reading header/footer: no
     Customize ComfortLight settings: no
     FeatureSettings - BookSpecificStats: yes
     FeatureSettings - ShowFacebookShare: yes
     FeatureSettings - FullScreenBrowser: no
     FeatureSettings - MyWords: no
     FeatureSettings - ExportHighlights: no
     DeveloperSettings - AutoUsbGadget: no
     PowerSettings - UnlockEnabled: no
     Unify font sizes: yes
   src/librmsdk.so.1.0.0.yaml:
     Disable orphans/widows avoidance: yes
     Default ePub serif font (Amasis): no
     Default ePub sans-serif font (Gill Sans): no
     Default ePub symbol font (Symbol): no
     Force user line spacing in ePubs (Part 2 of 2): no
     Force user font-family in ePubs (Part 2 of 2): no
     Ignore ePub book Adobe XPGT stylesheet (page-template.xpgt): no
     Ignore ePub book CSS and Adobe XPGT stylesheets: no
     Ignore ePub TOC navpoints: no
     Default ePub monospace font: no
   src/nickel.yaml:
     Reduce top/bottom page spacer: yes
## Customized
     Custom synopsis details line spacing: yes
     Custom synopsis font size: yes
     Increase home screen cover size: no
     Dictionary pop-up - increase available text area: yes
     Increase Book Details synopsis area: yes
     Increase library cover size: yes
     Custom collection/author header title font: no
## Customized
     Reduce new header/footer height: yes
## Customized
     Custom header/footer captions: yes
## Customized
     Custom page navigation scrubber: yes
     Customise Header back button: no
     Series list increase cover thumbnails: yes
     Increase headlines font: no
     New home screen subtitle custom font: yes
     Remove footer (row3) and increase cover size on new home screen: yes
     Remove footer (row3) on new home screen: no
     Show all games: yes
     Remove forgot pin button from lock screen: no
     Increase size of kepub chapter progress chart: yes
     Change TOC level indentation: no
   src/nickel_custom.yaml:
     jackie_w Screensaver full: yes
     beta Increase width available for book Title in Booklists - Storm only: yes

## TRANSLATIONS ##
# Optional, use only if lrelease is not in PATH and if translations are needed
# lrelease: /path/to/lrelease

# Uncomment the following to add translations (replace lc with the language code)
# translations:
#   src/whatever.ts: usr/local/Kobo/translations/trans_lc.qm

## ADDITIONAL FILES ##
# Uncomment the following to add additional files to the tgz (like init scripts or hyphen dicts)
# The files will be root-owned, and world readable, writable, and executable (0777)
# files:
#   src/whatever.txt: usr/local/Kobo/whatever.txt
#   src/whateverToPutInMultiplePlaces.txt:
#     - usr/local/Kobo/location1.txt
#     - usr/local/Kobo/location2.txt
files:
  C:\Download\Kobo\Hyphenation/hyphenDicts/hyph_en.dic: usr/local/Kobo/hyphenDicts/hyph_en.dic

[413Michele]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Here is my kobopatch.yaml file. You can have a look and see if there's anything you may be doing incorrectly.

As far as I can tell, it's similar to mine, except for the increased complexity. This is my one:

## Works with kobopatch v0.15.0 and later.
## You can update kobopatch by downloading the latest release from https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch/releases. 
version: 4.33.19759
in: src/kobo-update-4.33.19759.zip
out: out/KoboRoot.tgz
log: out/log.txt

patchFormat: kobopatch

patches:
  src/nickel.yaml: usr/local/Kobo/nickel
  src/libadobe.so.yaml: usr/local/Kobo/libadobe.so
  src/libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml: usr/local/Kobo/libnickel.so.1.0.0
  src/librmsdk.so.1.0.0.yaml: usr/local/Kobo/librmsdk.so.1.0.0

## You can put lines in the following section to override the enabled state of patches.
## The indentation matters! Each override should be indented by 4 spaces. Add to the 
## section below. This section can be copy and pasted into newer patch versions to
## keep your selections.
##
## Example of how it should look:
## overrides:
##   src/nickel.yaml:
##     Custom synopsis/details line spacing: yes
##     Whatever the yaml is called: no
##   src/libadobe.so.yaml:
##     You get the idea: yes
overrides:
  src/nickel.yaml:
    Show all games: yes
  src/libadobe.so.yaml:
  src/libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml:
    Un-Force user text-align in div,p tags in KePubs: yes
    Un-Force user font-family in KePubs: yes
  src/librmsdk.so.1.0.0.yaml:
## TRANSLATIONS ##
# Optional, use only if lrelease is not in PATH and if translations are needed
# lrelease: /path/to/lrelease

# Uncomment the following to add translations (replace lc with the language code)
# translations:
#   src/whatever.ts: usr/local/Kobo/translations/trans_lc.qm

## ADDITIONAL FILES ##
# Uncomment the following to add additional files to the tgz (like init scripts or hyphen dicts)
# The files will be root-owned, and world readable, writable, and executable (0777)
# files:
#   src/whatever.txt: usr/local/Kobo/whatever.txt
#   src/whateverToPutInMultiplePlaces.txt:
#     - usr/local/Kobo/location1.txt
#     - usr/local/Kobo/location2.txt

And the thing is, both the terminal output and the log file seem to say that the process went well, and the patches were applied. Only, after copying the file and rebooting, nothing changes.

If after you've seen it, I can send you my KoboRoot.tgz file. It's for the Libra 2.

Yeah that would be helpful, thank you. This way I can confirm whether I've made a mistake or this is a bug