Kobo GPL Violation regarding source availability for the Kobo Arc
Quote: Thank you for contacting Tier 2 Kobo Customer Care. We apologize for the delay in our response. I have contacted our development time regarding your questions about GPL codes for the Arc...
View ArticleNew prefix; Firmware bug, issue or request list
Prefix Can a new prefix be added to postings? Prefix: Touch Glo Mini Aura? Now it only possible to select one device. A little "problematic" for soms threads as future firmware features requests and...
View Articlertcwake on Kobo?
after enabling Wifi on/off to save battery, the next step would be to really sleep the processor. linux has rtcwake for this. but when I try it, it does not seem to work Quote: rtcwake -a -s 10...
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Glo Night Mode
Here's a new hack that will hopefully benefit some people (I know I use it!). A little while back I released a very hacky white on black display mode for the Glo. Not long after, yoq put together a...
View ArticleTouch Is it possible to "restore" a Demo Kobo?
I (stupidly :o) bought a demo Kobo Touch from ebay, thinking that I could restore it as I had several demo Kindles. It was only on searching through the site and being unable to find any methods...
View ArticleHack to reopen last book
I would find a way to reopen the last opened book at startup, if I shut down when the book was opened. What I want to do is to write the document path to some file before the device is shut down if the...
View ArticleGlo How to start customizing the GLO?
Hi all, Im Herman from Belgium got my GLO a few days back and as with all devices i like to customize it to the way I want it, not the firm i bought the device from . :-) I read and searched about info...
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(semi)automatic dump of Kobo firmware on a SD card
Hi, waiting for my Aura to come, I put together a simple hack to automatically dump the internal firmware of a Mark 4 Kobo (i.e. Mini, Glo, Aura and recent Touch) on an SD card. This should work on any...
View Articlemodifying reading stats (number of books read and hours read)?
Hi Recently I did a factory reset on my kobo and I lost my reading stats(number of book read and hours read. I was wondering if there was any way to manually modify those numbers in a configuration...
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Getting rid of the Header in 2.5.2 epubs
With the patch 2.5.2 Kobo decided to "kobo-fy" the epub rendering engine, by adding a permanent title-line on top of the screen. I was not really happy with the prospect of not upgrading the Kobo from...
View ArticleJapanese Kobo Dev - kobohack-j
Searching the Web i stumbled over a few development projects for the Kobo Software. Sadly my knowledge of the language is almost non-existant and translation software is rather limited especially when...
View ArticleJapanese Kobo Dev - CFW
Searching the Web I stumbled over a few development projects for the Kobo. Sadly my knowledge of the language is almost non-existent and translation software is rather limited. :P As far as I can...
View Articledisabling flashing LED?
dear all, as part of my alternative setup i want to comment out nickel in rcS. but seems to be responsible for disabling the flashing led after the start process. currently nickel is started and then...
View ArticleHacking SD card file system
After some discussions got started over in the Upgrade thread on changing the SD card to a different format than the default FAT32 I thought I would move the discussion over here. Original request:...
View Articlelinux command to open nickel or Access with a sdcard file argument
Hi guys, The architecture of the kobo software is an enigma to me. But I understand that any command line can be done (for example with the Tweak). Is there a way to "simply" start the viewer (default...
View Article[Bash] 'sleep' x becomes 'leep' x
Hello, I just started to write small scripts for my Kobo Mini. At some points I need the script to pause for a few seconds. So I used the sleep command. Unfortunately the scripts don't work as they...
View ArticleGlo Is there a way to fix Cyrilic Glo Keyboard
Is there a way to fix Cyrilic Glo Keyboard ? I think defauly Kobo glo Font must be changed because it doesnt support cyrilic. How can i change default Kobo glo font to check if I can fix this ?
View Articleprecompiled binaries,
if you need any precompiled binaries you can find them here. http://mes5devel.mandriva.com/~fbui/.../main/release/ they worked well for me. pain is, that you have to extract them and then copy them...
View ArticleGlo Running browser without Wifi connection
Hi, I am using kiwix-serve to have a static copy of Wikipedia (on a SD card) to my Kobo. It works, but, as the dump is served using HTTP, I have to connect to localhost with a web browser to read it....
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