Firmware uploaded here
Hey Trinity,
You can find the firmware here in the download section. Its the current v1.0.5 one that i have without radio support. I suppose i could upload the other one as well if you really need it but the radio is actually more than just useless in my opinion. Nice sales gimmick but thats about it.
As far as the modding is concerned.
It all depends on what you want to mod. If it is just the icons (UI) then there are already some tools out there to help you with it. Since the Rockchip RC27xx is a proprietary system, they all have pros and cons. Images are best modded with the RK27UIEditor even tho it has some problems with the big bmp`s such as startup and shutdown images. (Reason is that those are most likely RLE encoded to save on space and none of the tools seem to be able to handle that kind of encoding.)
Regular icons are easily replaced, you just have to be careful with transparency.
Another problem is that the stringid has to match the images in case you want to add and not just replace some images. Right now i am writing my own code to easily add images and stringid`s but its a slow process because datasheets and info on structure are hard to come by.
Really coding new features into the firmware is hard because it seems to be based on a ARM CPU and compiling it to actually running it are two different things.
Ok there are RockChipEmulators out there (google it..RockChipEmu i think) but i still have to get one working for me.
With the ebook from Gemei (Gm2000) it is a lot easier since its based on the Ingenic Chipset and they work closer with the open source community than rockchip does.
Most of the programs you will find are reverse engineered and hence aimed at a specific firm/hardware so i would not trust them to be useful for that exact ebook reader that we have.
To add more features to PDF for instance is `double trouble` because both are proprietary formats.
The PDF and Rockchip heh so its even harder. So if i were you i wouldnt worry about it really.
Just convert the PDF into mobi or epub. (Use Calibre for that ..works like a charm)
Maybe tomorrow i can upload the tools that i have collected. Some are in native chinese so its like click and try most of the time lol.
Also it seems like the modding community is doing either 10000 million different things at once or none at all. Lots of the tools come without source code so you have to invent the wheel 10 times over and frankly it gets a bit tedious after the 5th time.
Anyways as soon as i have more success or come across something that is helpful i will let yall know here.
Regards
Nicolas
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