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Touch Hd3 library not recognizing 1 of 4 books in a series

January 19, 2020, 1:50 pm
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I am going nuts here :)

I use Calibri to maintain ebooks, and I have a 'Series' which has 4 books in it. All is setup fine in Calibri: they have their own title, and they have their 'Series'-name set, and the number is 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The bizarre thing is; only 1 3 and 4 show their Series name in the Pocketbook library app: number 2 does not show anything that indicates it belongs to a series.

Any idea anyone? :bulb2:
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pb firmware 6.0

January 24, 2020, 1:14 am
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I have heard rumours about an ongoing beta test of firmware version 6. Is there someone maybe who is participating in this test, and can shortly summarize what to expect from this new version? Thanks!
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Random logo feature

January 26, 2020, 6:44 am
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I see that under "Power-off logo" (in Settings→Personalize) there is a feature called "random logo". The Pocketbook manual for TL3 says to place any image in the folder system/logos. I tried placing some covers in jpeg and bmp in that folder and in the subfolder called offlogo, to no effect. Has anyone gotten this feature to work?
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Fastest pocketbook

February 8, 2020, 8:25 am
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Hi. I'd like have your opinion: which's the fastest pocketbook device?
(I'm talking about the page turn, touch responsiveness, manage big file)

Thanks
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Inverted color mode for PB 632 (aka PB Touch HD3). Is there a way do it?

February 8, 2020, 11:11 am
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I love to read on a black background. So I wonder what code line can be edited to set screen color black and font color white across the system on Touch HD3? Thank you people!

Отправлено с моего BQ-7098G через Tapatalk
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Can you create separate files with Scribble?

February 9, 2020, 11:38 am
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Hello, I'm looking to buy an e-ereader which I could also use to take notes. The scribble app on PocketBooks (particularly the InkPad 3) has caught my eye, but I'm not entirely sure how it works. Can I go to a folder, open let's say Document1, edit and close it and then create a new Document2 that would be independent on the first one? Or if this isn't possible, could you recommend an e-reader that does this? (I have been looking into Onyx Poke Pro and the Android apps).
Thank you for any response.
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Booting Pocketbook in qemu

February 10, 2020, 9:03 am
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Hey folks,

I've been hacking my Touch Lux 4 lately - mainly trying to boot full system image in qemu.

Here's what I am doing:
  1. I made full image of the internal SD card
  2. Figured out that partition #7 is the root partition (with /sbin/init)

Now I am running:
Code:
qemu-system-arm -M vexpress-a9 -kernel vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-vexpress -initrd initrd.img-3.2.0-4-vexpress -sd ../full_disk.raw -append "ext2=1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p7"
Note, that I am not immediately certain that vexpress-a9 is the right machine type, but this page suggests this is a good option for Allwiner A10 (sun5i) CPU in my Pocketbook.

I figured that I have to pass ext2=1 to kernel command line because otherwise it fails to mount the partition (idk why ext2 is not enabled by default in initrd).

So right now the process goes all the way to running init which fails:
Code:
/init: line 327: can't open /root/dev/console: no such file
and panic ensues.

Any thoughts how can I make progress there?
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Save to Pocketbook vs Pocket

February 12, 2020, 11:32 am
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If anyone out there has experience saving web articles to their ereader with both Save to Pocketbook and the Pocket app (on Kobo or Android ereaders), I'd love to learn how they compare. I've searched the web and found no such comparison. Thanks!
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614W status frozen

February 16, 2020, 2:05 pm
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Hi!
A few months back my ebook just froze in one status - I can turn it off an on perfectly, if I turn it on I can navigate, do anything, then if I turn it off and on again, it returns to the state it froze in a few months ago. I can't add or delete books, because they disappear/reappear when restarted. I can't add new bookmarks or notes. My last book and last visited page disappears too.

I've tried reformatting and deleting everything multiple times but no luck. The software should be up to date. A friend got the same model around the same time as me (nearly exactly 4 years before it froze) and he has the same problem. Any ideas?
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Testing pocketbook apps

February 17, 2020, 3:34 am
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Hey folks,

How do you test/debug your Pocketbook apps? The most straight forward way is, obviously, just cross-compile ARM code, install app on the device and run it - but edit/refresh cycle is long, debugging is cumbersome and %reasons% -- especially when building UI.

The approach which was suggested in the original SDK (pocketbook-free.sourceforge.net) was to use libinkview compiled for Windows, either by using Cygwin or compile on Linux using winegcc. On Linux I got as far as compiling the app, starting it with wine, and it crashes with access violation at some point; on Windows it even starts the app window and still crashes with access violation -- all of this before reaching my code (reasons for that is kinda hard to debug without having full source code).

Question is: how y'all do it? Ideally running app natively on your PC (Linux or Windows) would be ideal, but failing that, anything that allows to relatively easily run and debug app might help.

Thoughts?
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Stuck notification alert on Touch HD 3

February 25, 2020, 6:35 am
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Hi all,

I have no idea why, but I have a 'stuck' notification in the top menu bar of my Touch HD 3. The top-down menu does not show any alerts, but the icon (envelope with '1') is shown next to the wifi and led icons...

How to get rid of this icon? :blink:
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Pocketbook Lux 4 Library Issue

February 29, 2020, 10:05 am
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Hi, I have an issue with how the author's name is shown in Pocketbook's library>Authors - for epubs only the author's last name is shown (so, for example, "Austen" and not "Austen, Jane", whereas for pdfs, both FN and LN are shown, but for some reason, pdfs are sorted by FN (even though they appear as LN, FN in Pocketbook'a library>Authors).
My issue is mainly epubs, since I don't have many pdfs anyway.

I use Calibre to edit metadata, I do not copy files from Calibre Library, instead I export a book from Calibre in a folder to copy to the SD card. All the metadata except for LN, FN is successfully shown - I can see genres and book infos (not for pdfs, only for epubs - but like I said, I don't care about pdfs as much), which is why I don't understand why FN is the problem. I like using Author view more than Folder view, so I would really like to fix this.

Does anyone have an idea as to why this happens, why does Pockebook's library only show LN? Thanks!
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Pocketbook HD3

March 4, 2020, 1:06 am
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Hello,
I´d like to ask for help with metadata. I am using Calibre for Pocketbook HD3 and everyhting went good, but now my ebook won´t react to metadata (name, series, cover) - nothing won´t show in ebook but in calibre changes work just fine - Any advice ? Thank you
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TL4 menu button doesn't open menu

March 9, 2020, 3:05 am
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Touch Lux 4

Hello guys, I'm so glad I've found this forum.

I've had problems with corrupt storage and stuff, but that's not what I'm here for, just saying if this had anything to do with that.

This damn right context menu button kind of lost its function. I mean only the single click action, which should open any relevant context menu (in library, in a book), is gone. It still can light up the screen when held pushed, also double click action works fine. I've picked through binding settings and there's simply no way to bind the menu function to single click of the button, thus I assume it's kind of its default function and cannot be specifically bound.

Any ideas what could be wrong and if it can be solved? Gotta say I'm not much into resetting or re-installing software because I'm not gonna have access to my computer for a few days.

Thanks!
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Font size changes suddenly on PocketBook Touch HD3

March 10, 2020, 4:09 am
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I have for three weeks now used my new PocketBook Touch HD3 and I love it!

BUT!

When reading .epub with default font it suddenly changes to a smaller or bigger font size on the screen (no changes in the settings, still same font size there). It is very random, I can read for an hour and then it suddenly changes without me touching anything. Texts within <i> keep the size though!

I am in contact with PocketBook and I hope they will be able to help me.
So far I have made:
1, a factory reset (I had loads of other strange things happening with the e-reader before doing this).
2, formatted internal memory.
3, reinstalled the software.

No change. Other formats works (.mobi, .rtf, .pb2) and if I change the font type it also keeps the size. But doing those changes means that there are other issues with the layout of text. So I really want this to work as it is supposed to.

Anyone else with these kind of problems?
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HD3 dev

March 13, 2020, 5:42 am
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Hi, searched around fairly comprehensively and could not find the info I was looking for. Apologies if my searching was subpar. Have gone through the thread "PB6xx/7xx/8xx: root + sshd..." associated source code and walked the dependency tree on GitHub.

Looking for some info about PB HD3 wrt development:
  • what's CPU and architecture , ARM-7 ?
  • is there a particular version of Linux that it runs ? I've seen mention of busybox being installed on top of it which is cool, but would love to get more *nix services like crontab (esp if it could wake up the device).
  • what/why are the compiler flags what they are? Reverse engineering what I see in various repos is not leading to much understanding on my part.
  • most SDKs that I see reference to contain compiled binaries for the compilers themselves, do we know what was used to bootstrap those?
  • are there resources I am missing that could help me understand such things?
  • Am I correct in that QT is the UI framework that these devices use?
  • have I chosen the wrong device?

I'm interested in developing some applications for the device, ideally by cross compiling in a language that is a little nicer (personal opinion) to use like Rust or Go.

If I'm successful, would be happy to put together a how-to guide on GitHub.

> About me

I'm a professional software developer of over 15 years and I consider myself pretty good. At this point my experience is much higher in the stack: C#, Java, Groovy, Python, Ruby, Javascript, GoLang, Rust, Bash. CS degree was heavy on C/C++ but it was a lifetime ago. I have only dabbled in embedded development with things like Particle IoT and rPI.
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InkPad3 won't open this epub file

March 26, 2020, 4:14 am
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Hi!
I'm playing with formatting a book in public domain in Sigil. I made an epub3 file and tested it Calibre reader and a few other reader apps and it works fine. It also works OK on my phone in PocketBook Android app, however it won't open on my InkPad3.

I've opened epub3 books on InkPad3 before — I know the device doesn't support epub3, so you loose some formatting, but I'm really curious what's going on in this specific case (see attachment).

Any ideas?

Code:
epubcheck "Fran S. Finžgar - Pod svobodnim soncem.epub"
Validating using EPUB version 3.2 rules.
No errors or warnings detected.
Messages: 0 fatals / 0 errors / 0 warnings / 0 infos

EPUBCheck completed

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Where does "genre" metadata come from

March 27, 2020, 7:44 am
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Hi all,

I asked this question on the Calibre sub-forum and the creator of Calibre told me I needed to ask the Pocketbook team :)

I like my library sorted a certain way and have remove all the metadata that is not "author, "title", and "series". I removed ALL the tags from ALL the books, several times! And yet when I look at my library on the Inkpad and sort by genre, I get a million different genres and sub-genres... which drives me crazy.

Anybody here can tell me where that metadata is drawn from? I'd like to get rid of this mess!

Hope everyone is staying safe !

Kami

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615, 615 Plus and Basic Lux

March 30, 2020, 6:10 pm
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I found an inexpensive 615 on eBay (it's supposed to arrive on Friday) and I'm having trouble finding information about it. But I think I've figured it out... the 615 is the same as the 615 Plus, except the Plus has an E-Carta screen instead of Pearl. The 615 Plus is the same as the Basic Lux (original one) except the Lux has WiFi, which (apparently) neither of the 615s have? If I'm wrong, thanks for any correctiions. I was looking forward to testing a PocketBook, but part of the testing was going to be downloading books directly from Overdrive. :) Ah well, at the very least I'll see if I like the PocketBook firmware and that might lead to upgrading to a PocketBook with WiFi.

Just out of curiosity, is the 615 mostly meant for the Russian market? Every review I found on the 615 and 615 Plus on YouTube was in Russian. Apparently, according to one English review I found (written by a Russian), PocketBook has a 70% market share in Russia?

Again, thanks for any information. The 615 was sold "for parts" because the "digitizer didn't work." I was looking at how I might be able to fix it, then realized... "hey, that "digitizer" isn't supposed to work." I don't feel too sorry for the seller because he's one of those dealers that gets devices left on airplanes and sold in cheap lots to resellers like him.
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Changed fonts (size/layout) after switching on- Touch Lux 4

April 10, 2020, 8:28 am
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Hi,

I got a new Touch Lux 4. I uploaded two epub books and I am now facing the problem that the font size and the layout change automatically after switching on the device. Checking the font size, it keeps being the same (see attachment), sometimes they get bigger, sometimes smaller. In about 20% of the cases, they keep being the same. Any idea on how to solve this issue?

Cheers
Sandia
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