Instructions for patching firmware 4.2.8110

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by drjd

BTW, how can I increase the page count in this patch? I don't mind the long list of menus however.

You can change the 12 in the last line of the patch (below) to 64 and it should result in a multi-page menu with options from 1 to 64: I think I chose 12 because that was the highest number that would still result in a one-page menu on all devices.

<Patch>
patch_name = `Custom page refresh options (1,2,3,...,12)`
patch_enable = `no`
# patch_group = `Page refresh alternatives`
#
## Allows the page refresh to be set in the range 1-12 pages,
## instead of just 1-6 pages. This patch doesn't affect the Aura.
#
# Replacement: Maximum value.
replace_int = 6ACF40, 6, 12
</Patch>

[drjd]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

You can change the 12 in the last line of the patch (below) to 64 and it should result in a multi-page menu with options from 1 to 64: I think I chose 12 because that was the highest number that would still result in a one-page menu on all devices.

<Patch>
patch_name = `Custom page refresh options (1,2,3,...,12)`
patch_enable = `no`
# patch_group = `Page refresh alternatives`
#
## Allows the page refresh to be set in the range 1-12 pages,
## instead of just 1-6 pages. This patch doesn't affect the Aura.
#
# Replacement: Maximum value.
replace_int = 6ACF40, 6, 12
</Patch>

Thanks GeoffR, I'll give it a try today.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

You can change the 12 in the last line of the patch (below) to 64 and it should result in a multi-page menu with options from 1 to 64: I think I chose 12 because that was the highest number that would still result in a one-page menu on all devices.

<Patch>
patch_name = `Custom page refresh options (1,2,3,...,12)`
patch_enable = `no`
# patch_group = `Page refresh alternatives`
#
## Allows the page refresh to be set in the range 1-12 pages,
## instead of just 1-6 pages. This patch doesn't affect the Aura.
#
# Replacement: Maximum value.
replace_int = 6ACF40, 6, 12
</Patch>

Can't the 6 be changed another value and the 12 also changed to a higher value?

[oren64]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Can't the 6 be changed another value and the 12 also changed to a higher value?

The patch replace the int number 6 (in the file libnickel.so.1.0.0) to 12, to get page refresh range
1-12 pages.
You can change the number 12 to other numbers, for example 20, to get refresh 1-20 pages.

In the older version patch you could change the first, successive and end numbers, for example first:3 successive:3 end:15 (3, 6, 9, 12, 15).

[hangel87]

Hi to all, I've just a question, if I made a factory reset, all patches are gone?

Thanks

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by hangel87

Hi to all, I've just a question, if I made a factory reset, all patches are gone?

Correct.

[hangel87]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Correct.

Thanks a lot!

[Dan Stefanescu]

For GeoffR
I have an ebook reader Kobo Aura edition 2 with FW 4.2.8110.
Alberto Pettarin (the authorul of the Penelope programme) created for me a romanian language dictionary. In this dictionary the Romanian diacritics ă,â, î show but ş and ţ do not.
Exactly the same thing happens when I open an e-book: only part of the fonts show all diacritics correctly (3 fonts out of 11 are OK: Amasis, Caecilia and Malabar).
Unfortunately Kobo does not allow the use of this fonts in dictionaries.
I would like to kindly ask you if a patch for changing the default font in the custom dictionary exists or could be created in order for all the diacritics to show.
I am also interested in a custom keyboard patches witch would include the romanian diacritics ă (not ã), â, î, ş, ţ for word search.
Thanks you a lot in advance.

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by Dan Stefanescu

Alberto Pettarin (the authorul of the Penelope programme) created for me a romanian language dictionary. In this dictionary the Romanian diacritics ă,â, î show but ş and ţ do not.
Exactly the same thing happens when I open an e-book: only part of the fonts show all diacritics correctly (3 fonts out of 11 are OK: Amasis, Caecilia and Malabar).
Unfortunately Kobo does not allow the use of this fonts in dictionaries.
I would like to kindly ask you if a patch for changing the default font in the custom dictionary exists or could be created in order for all the diacritics to show.

I don't know how to do that sorry. I know others have come across similar problems, I but I don't know if they managed to solve it or not.

I am also interested in a custom keyboard patches witch would include the romanian diacritics ă (not ã), â, î, ş, ţ for word search.

That should be easy to do, if you can decide which keys on the ÉÀÇ keypad you want to replace.

Edit: I should ask: do those characters get displayed properly in the book title and author name in the device's library listing? If not, then they probably won't get displayed on the patched keyboard either, but it is fixable if you install the right font. I found when testing with Arabic books that some fonts don't work properly in the device UI even though they worked in the book, while other fonts worked in both the UI and in the book. I think it is a problem with the font itself: many fonts contain errors in their metadata, especially the PANOSE data which the firmware relies on, but they can usually be fixed by editing the font with fontforge. (Even some of the built-in fonts supplied with the firmware contain errors, but they are encrypted and so can't be fixed, so you need to sideload a replacement.)

[Dan Stefanescu]

For GeoffR
Characters ă (not ã), â, î, ş, ţ are displayed properly in the book title and author name in the device's library listing.
I want to replace the first 5 keys in first row on the ÉÀÇ keypad.
Where should this patch be placed: in libadobe.so.patch, libnickel.so.1.0.0.patch, librmsdk.so.1.0.0.patch or nickel.patch ?

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by Dan Stefanescu

For GeoffR
Characters ă (not ã), â, î, ş, ţ are displayed properly in the book title and author name in the device's library listing.
I want to replace the first 5 keys in first row on the ÉÀÇ keypad.
Where should this patch be placed: in libadobe.so.patch, libnickel.so.1.0.0.patch, librmsdk.so.1.0.0.patch or nickel.patch ?

I'm not sure what the Aura 2nd edition keyboard layout looks like, so I don't know which keys are the first five on the first row, but you should be able to use the `Keyboard template` patch in post #2 to change the keys you want, and just delete (or comment out) the other replace_string lines for keys that you don't want to change.

e.g. to change the š key to ş, change the following line in the patch:

replace_string = 0000, `š`, `2`

to

replace_string = 0000, `š`, `ş`

If the keyboard layout for the Aura 2nd edition is not the same as for the Aura One then the keys will be in different positions, but if you go by the symbol on the key and ignore the comments about position in the patch then it should work out.

[Dan Stefanescu]

Your procedure works very well.
Thank you very very very much GeoffR.

[Maida]

Originally Posted by Dan Stefanescu

For GeoffR
I have an ebook reader Kobo Aura edition 2 with FW 4.2.8110.
Alberto Pettarin (the authorul of the Penelope programme) created for me a romanian language dictionary. In this dictionary the Romanian diacritics ă,â, î show but ş and ţ do not.
Exactly the same thing happens when I open an e-book: only part of the fonts show all diacritics correctly (3 fonts out of 11 are OK: Amasis, Caecilia and Malabar).
Unfortunately Kobo does not allow the use of this fonts in dictionaries.
I would like to kindly ask you if a patch for changing the default font in the custom dictionary exists or could be created in order for all the diacritics to show.
I am also interested in a custom keyboard patches witch would include the romanian diacritics ă (not ã), â, î, ş, ţ for word search.
Thanks you a lot in advance.

Hi,
I'm having a Kobo H2O and used penelope to convert the Romanian dictionary DEX and it works fine with me, showing all diacritics. I also uploaded into the dictionary folder the Romanian morphology files, I don' know if that helps, but I almost always get the proper hits.

[Dan Stefanescu]

Originally Posted by Maida

Hi,
I'm having a Kobo H2O and used penelope to convert the Romanian dictionary DEX and it works fine with me, showing all diacritics. I also uploaded into the dictionary folder the Romanian morphology files, I don' know if that helps, but I almost always get the proper hits.

Buna ziua Maida,
Presupun ca din moment ce folosesti DEX-ul romanesc pot sa-ti scriu in limba romana. M-ar interesa foarte mult fisierele despre care vorbesti. As ramane recunoscator daca mi le-ai putea trimite pe adresa profdanstef@gmail.com
Multumesc anticipat!

[LittleBiG]

Unfortunately on my Kobo Aura Edition 2 the last line on the first page is cut half in the dictionary popup. I tried the corrected patch (because I noticed others had the same problem), but it also didn't work for me. Under 3.19.5761 on my old Kobo Aura I had to make the dictionary window frame 10 pixel bigger (the height) and it solved the problem. Now I don't understand the new patch to modify it. Could anybody help? Thanks in advance.