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Originally Posted by Nicolas72
Well i tinkered around a bit more with my reader (the fact that i couldnt get the firmware out of it was just simply bothering me like crazy)
With WinXp on my system i am able to see 2 drives as soon as i connect the player to the computer but only one is accessible. So far so good. One is the actual player memory and the other one is the `hidden` partition. But apparently i cant read it with any of those programs we talked about earlier.
The RK27usb.inf is installed (even tried RK28usb.inf but same result)
Even tried those TAG things again but no go, unless i am totally incompetent (wouldnt surprise me)
When it says turn player off completely i assume they just want me to hold the off button on it till it says goodbye and so on. The manual on those things arent very clear on that.
It is just weird that its so easy to flash the drive but not get the old firmware out of it first.
That skytex program is nice and well documented but why the heck cant they just make a backup first lol. This is beyond me lolol.
Anyways...
I am really satisfied with the reader though. Calibre recognized it as a K6/K7 and managing my books with it is easy as pie.
The only problem is with very large PDF or ePubs. Very large meaning over 10Mb.
They open but it takes forever to advance a page or zoom, rotate.
I might just order another one to really dissect it and solve that darn firmware backup problem.
Right now i am just waiting for my Tablet PC with Android 2.2 lets see how screwed up that thing is lolol.
I really do miss WiFi and maybe a touchscreen on it.
How is your battery life doing now ?
Regards
Nicolas
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No mate, not tried how long the battery lasts. I drained the batt, but never fully charged it as i was using it, but it does seem a little better. I'm happy with it so far.
I have noticed that there is a couple of things missing from this skytex firmware. It used to play most video formats including divx and xvid .avi files, and also had text to speech, but since updating to skytex firmware, it will not play xvid videos, but plays divx files fine, and text to speech is also missing, not that it was much use anyway. I've had a look around but can't find the text to speech settings in this firmware, so i assume its not there.
At the end of the day, i bought it for ebooks, and it works great with epub and mobi format/ebooks, so i'm still happy