N770 no longer recognized

[proxy318]

After poking around the forums a bit, I found out I needed to download the binary to get the latest version installed on Ubuntu. 0.6.39 does detect the 770 properly, so there's one.

[proxy318]

This is the report from a different win 7 machine. Looks like it did detect a mountable drive, so I guess it is something on my computer.

Version: 0.6.39
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a34&rev0000',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a35&rev0000',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a39&rev0000',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a36&rev0000',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a37&rev0000',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a38&rev0000',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid1106&pid3038&rev0061',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid1106&pid3038&rev0061',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid3a3c&rev0000',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid3a3a&rev0000',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid1106&pid3104&rev0063',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c044&rev_2720',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c221&rev_0190',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c221&rev_0190&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c221&rev_0190&mi_01',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c223&rev_0171',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c225&rev_0171',
u'usb\\vid_068e&pid_00f2&rev_0000',
u'usb\\vid_0bda&pid_0151&rev_5195',
u'usb\\vid_13fe&pid_1d00&rev_0100']
Drives detected:
{'J:\\': u'\\\\?\\STORAGE#VOLUME#_??_USBSTOR#DISK&VEN_KINGS TON&PROD_DATATRAVELER_2.0&REV_PMAP#5B7A089903F5&0# {53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}'}
Looking for HANLINV3
Looking for HANLINV5
Looking for BLACKBERRY
Looking for CYBOOK
Looking for ILIAD
Looking for IREXDR1000
Looking for IREXDR800
Looking for JETBOOK
Looking for SHINEBOOK
Looking for POCKETBOOK360
Looking for KINDLE
Looking for KINDLE2
Looking for KINDLE_DX
Looking for NOOK
Looking for PRS505
Looking for PRS700
Looking for PRS500
Looking for ANDROID
Looking for N770
Looking for N810
Looking for COOL_ER
Looking for ESLICK
Looking for NUUT2
Looking for IRIVER_STORY
Looking for GER2
Looking for ITALICA
Looking for ECLICTO
Looking for DBOOK
Looking for INVESBOOK
Looking for BOOX
Looking for BOOQ
Looking for EB600
Looking for README
Looking for N516
Devices possibly connected: None

[proxy318]

RESOLVED - finally figured this out. I was running a custom version of the N770 OS. Reverted to stock, and Calibre now detects my 770 again. It didn't occur to me to check this because the old detection method didn't have a problem with the "hacked" OS. Just FYI in case someone else has this issue.

You also might want to consider updating your detection signatures to allow detection of the OS, or have them detect based purely on the hardware id, if that's possible.

Another idea I had was maybe you could make an option to tell calibre an arbitrary mounted drive is a reading device, and tell it where you want it to sync your books.

Anyway, thanks for your help on this.

[itimpi]

Originally Posted by proxy318

Another idea I had was maybe you could make an option to tell calibre an arbitrary mounted drive is a reading device, and tell it where you want it to sync your books.

I believe that a facility of this type is in the current Calibre beta release, so at some point it should make the main release.

[kovidgoyal]

Detection is based on hardware id, to be precise usb vendor, product and bcd ids. Your custom OS presumably changed those.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by proxy318

The output is wrong. See attached image.

That image shows the disk mounted as a local disc, not a removable disk. Calibre looks only at removable discs. My guess, based on almost no evidence, is that the device is not really a USB disc, and that Nokia has for some reason written its drivers to connect as local.

(Edit: I should have read ahead. Didn't see the last three posts. Sigh.)