Does anyone know of this E-Book reader and how to update the firmware on it ?

[Nicolas72]

Well one thing is for sure...you never cease to learn lol.
Concerning the FM not working on my old player, uhm..I just found out that it uses the headphones as an antenna and of course i tried it without it. Now its working...cough cough. In my defense i have to say that it didnt mention that anywhere in the manual or on sites or whatnot.
Anyways I will flash it with the skytex one.
Ok battery time. Before using it for real i drained the battery 3 times at least to get its full charging capacity so right now i am looking at like 6-7 hours reading with medium backlight on. Maybe you should drain it completely as well a few times and then charge it for 5-6 hours at least (so longer even if the blue light stays on indicating its fully charged)
I actually went through all the trouble of installing WindozeXP on my computer (Horror) but still i cant see the other partitions, so i suppose i just RK28 Device Manger it then.
Off topic, my other trophies arrived yesterday from Chinaland..Mp3 player. Neat little thing but i got scammed the other way around. On the product it says 2Gig.. Linux and windows partition manager insists tho that it is 8Gig.(Ofc it isnt)
Did all the known tricks on it as well but no go lol..my luck.
I am not going to worry about it because by just making a 2Gig partition and leaving the other 6Gig as unallocated works just fine.
Another lesson learned. But what can i say, I totally adore those gadgets lol.
Anyways...
I hope your battery life is going to improve a little bit at least.

Regards
Nicolas

[Trinity]

I tried the headphones with radio, but still no luck. Digital radio is not very good here in the uk anyway!
I also put the back light on low, and also have black background and white writing for reading as a black background does not use so much power as would a bright white background does.
I like gadgets too, but no money to spend on them at the mo due to work being quiet. My last gadget i bought before the ereader was a archos 405 a couple of years back which i attached to a helmet cam. I can record 8 hours none stop while i'm out riding on my bike at good quality, but since my bike as been broke the past year, i've turned to reading to pass the time instead, lol
I'll try and run down the battery completely on the ereader and see if the charge last any longer.
I'm not one for mp3 players. I like loud music, so a jvc amp and a couple of big speakers connected to my pc, plus winamp 2 playing my mp3 collection is all i need
Also been playing with 2 damaged micro sd cards that i was given to try fix, but with no luck. I've tried lots of different software to format, tried deleting the partitions etc.. even tried them in my cameras, ereader, archos, nokia phone, but they will not format in either of the devices. Pity as 1 is 16 gig and the other 8 gig. My ebook collection is 10gig (13,000 ebooks) so would have been nice to get the all on my ereader.

[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

[kkrevenge]

Hello, i've bought Mebook 7" ebook reader supermediaplayer... practically the same as your
my firmware is v 1.05 and through this forum I learned of the new firmware v1.1
is difficult to install? in the case of brick?

[Trinity]

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

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

[Trinity]

Originally Posted by kkrevenge

Hello, i've bought Mebook 7" ebook reader supermediaplayer... practically the same as your
my firmware is v 1.05 and through this forum I learned of the new firmware v1.1
is difficult to install? in the case of brick?

Is it the skytex firmware you want to install? If so, then yes its fairly easy. Just make sure you plug the ereader into the power supply when updating just incase it decides to turn itself off half way through updating the firmware. Takes about 2mins to update.

If you have a found a different firmware than skytex or migear's, then, i'd be happy to test it on mine, and i'll let you know if any smoke comes out the thing or not, lol
Got any links to different firmware i can test? :-)

[Trinity]

Sorry, i was wrong, it still plays xvid avi files ok :-) I must have had a dodgy video.

[kkrevenge]

Originally Posted by Trinity

Is it the skytex firmware you want to install? If so, then yes its fairly easy. Just make sure you plug the ereader into the power supply when updating just incase it decides to turn itself off half way through updating the firmware. Takes about 2mins to update.

If you have a found a different firmware than skytex or migear's, then, i'd be happy to test it on mine, and i'll let you know if any smoke comes out the thing or not, lol
Got any links to different firmware i can test?

Thanks, for skytex what the improvements are from it 1.05 to the 1.1?

can you also be installed the migear? what the improvements?

It's possible to have a copy of firmware 1.05?

[Trinity]

Originally Posted by kkrevenge

Thanks, for skytex what the improvements are from it 1.05 to the 1.1?

can you also be installed the migear? what the improvements?

It's possible to have a copy of firmware 1.05?

The version i had when i first bought it was v1.00.
I tried the migear firmware, but certain things from the menu were missing, then i found skytex which had everything like it did before except the text to speech. Skytex as better icons and seems to run a little quicker. No improvement on the radio tho.
The only real difference with skytex firmware is the colours and a few tweaks minus text to speech, other than that, its the same as the original version.
I'm not sure where to find version 1.05.

The Mebook, primer, and migear are all the same hardware i assume, but with different firmware and brandings. I've tried the migear and skytex and all work ok, but skytex is what i prefer rather than the original firmware.

[Trinity]

Heres the Migear firmware. Notice videos, radio and record missing from the menu.












And these snaps are of the skytex firmware