Go into the dictionary screen, e.g., if you have a book open, tap the book icon on the bottom menu, and select Definition.Copy the dicthtml.zip file to the ".kobo\dict" folder on the reader.
This backs up your existing English dictionary (which I assume you already have installed). On the Kobo go to the ".kobo\dict" folder, and rename "dicthtml.zip" to "".Why do this? Well, the dictionaries provided by Kobo are a bit limited, and it is fun anyway to see what can be done. Let me know if this works for you, and which model you dumped with this.ĭue to the great work of other forum members it is now possible to create your own dictionaries for the Kobo Glo and Touch, for firmware 2.1.4 or later. kobo folder, disconnect and wait a couple of minutes until the script is copied back. To restore the original upgrade-wifi.sh, extract the KoboRoot.tgz from OriginalScript zip to the.
Inside it you should find a dump.img file: this is your dump.Ĭopy it on your PC and you should be able to open it (under Windows) with DiskInternal’s Linux Reader, which gives you access to all the partitions: rootfs, recoveryfs and FAT. Connect it again to the PC and you should find that the KoboDump folder has been renamed to KoboDumpDone. If everything goes as expected, you should wait for a long time while the script dumps the firmware: on a Glo I waited more than 25 minutes for a 2GB dump.Īfter a (possibly quite) long time, your Kobo will restart.
Now eject your Kobo and disconnect it from the PC: you should see the usual upgrade screens. kobo within the internal memory (be careful that KoboRoot.tgz and upgrade should be right within. Then extract the contents of DumpScript zip and copy KoboRoot.tgz and upgrade folder in folder.
In order to dump the firmware, insert an SD with at least 2GB free (I suggest using a larger card…) in your Kobo, connect it to the PC and create an empty folder named KoboDump on the root of the SD. kobo, and I modified it to dump the internal card to folder KoboDump in the SD. The trick uses a modified upgrade-wifi.sh script in /etc/init.d this script is started during a firmware upgrade when there is a upgrade folder in. You should also start with a fully charged Kobo. You will need a SD card with enough free space to hold the whole firmware (i.e, 2/4GB for Glo, 4 for Aura, and so on). This should work on any recent version of the firmware.Īs usual I assume no responsibility for any damage on your device, I have tested it on a Glo and it works for me… Mini, Glo, Aura and recent Touch) on an SD card. 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. I designed them before the Glo even existed. Oh yeah, and about the settings, I have no idea how well they fit on the larger screens. Maybe it's possible to start an external application and display just a white (or black) screen so it can use the display (but keep nickel running) until some signal is received that the application terminated.Īlso, the Qt based applications should be able to integrate directly with nickel just as the settings do. I'm especially thinking about some way to better integrate the weather display, chess, etc. There's more to come as I find some more time to work on it. Oh, and the filename changed to kobotweaks.ini to avoid a name clash. Note that you have to escape the " like this: \”. This means that the syntax slightly changed: I took the great idea of custom commands from the other plugin, but implemented it using QtScript, since that's already included with Qt. This is probably not very visible to you but means that it's fun again to work on it. Also, the menu customization is yet to come. Due to the new homescreen behavior you might have to reboot for now to see some changes. I actually had this sitting around for more than half a year, but now it's actually in there. It actually already worked automatically and is already loaded on boot, but Kobo improved the home screen so you need to open something and go back to the homescreen before anything there is changed.
It should work with SD cards and in the future also load automatically.
It's still a bit rough, but I think it's already useful and I'd rather release this now than letting it rot away on my harddrive again. Many thanks to ikarus9999 for the updates for firmware 2.x, they were really helpful. Since I recently updated my Touch to 2.4.0 and missed my beloved adblocker, I fixed up Kobo Tweaks and got it running again.