(I didn't know totally ignorant about the subject.)Īh I've just done some poking around, and I just realized I misunderstood things a bit when I last did some research (way too quickly, apparently) - I saw. > The chip-on-glass has tons of registers to set drive voltages and the like, but the datasheet just gives you values to write to all of them. That's a really great failure mode for debugging/development :) you can just use a single repaint count until you have temperature sensing wired up. > If you don't do it your display will just have less contrast in the code. > It's way simpler than that, you just write the displayed image more times based on temperature. There are some examples elsewhere in this thread that are interesting. What we really need is a liberated hardware e-reader. And even though they are less hostile than Amazon in trying to keep people out, nothing says they will keep on being nice like this. I wrote a tool to sync my Kobo with Wallabag here called Wallabako:īut there's no APK, far from it: the Kobo suite is developped in typical proprietary fashion of keeping the secret sauce to themselves, not a collaborative way. It's true that it's very easy to hack: just drop a `KoboRoot.tgz` tarball in the `.kobo` directory, and you basically overwrite any part of the filesystem, which gives you a lot of freedom. I did my own share of fooling around with the Kobo. Some people have gone through great lengths to try and improve the firmware image, see for example this guy who went as far as writing his own QT plugin for the UI, basically bruteforcing his way through undocumented APIs and missing source code: Most notably, the user interface itself ("Nickel") is completely missing from there: this makes it really hard to develop extensions for it.
Really? AFAIK, only parts of the distro are liberated, here: > they publish their modified Qt sources, so you can even rebuild the UI framework without much effort You should look at the repo to get started.
#INKBOOK CLASSIC 2 PLAY STORE CODE#
There's just three of us for now, and we hang out in #fread.ink on freenode and our code is up on We just got the latest stable kernel booting a few days ago but only barely (not even mmc support yet). This system is still using an ancient kernel (a slight variation on the one used by the stock OS). I believe we've managed to strip out all binary blobs so it's really all open source now. Currently we are furthest along with the Kindle 4th generation non-touch with a slightly modified super minimal Debian booting and basic graphics support (Xorg works but no window manager and no screen auto-update yet.
I've been working on a linux distro for i.MX based e-paper readers (kindle, kobo, etc.) for a while and just had two other hackers join me on the project. If you want a 100% FOSS distro on your device and you're not afraid of soldering, cross-compiling and super-pre-alpha code then read on.
#INKBOOK CLASSIC 2 PLAY STORE SERIAL#
I believe all kindle models are trivially rootable if you are willing to buy a 1.8v usb to serial adapter, open the kindle up and solder on three wires. The best devices are probably up to and including 5th generation kindles since I believe they are the latest to still have working soft-jailbreaks (but that could have changed since last I checked). If you just want to modify the existing OS and write apps for it the look at the kindle hacking community on the mobileread forums.