I have a PRS-950, bought on ebay a couple of years ago from a USA seller, that has the Cyrillic alphabet added so it can handle Epub files in Russan. Based on the information readout I believe that this was a jailbreak done by the original Russian importer. I suspect that it is a rarity in the USA. Still also handles western alphabet Epubs too.
Another has the Sony original PRS-950 illuminated cover, the only one I have ever seen. The not illuminated cover is much commoner.
I just received a virtually unused PRS-T2 from a Canadian ebay seller, complete with case, wand, USB cable and al original documentation. Only missing item was the original box. Cost was $56.57 including tax and shipping from Canada. Unlike many Sony readers it has not had the folders file structure erased and included original book and photo files.
Also recently received aa PRS-T3 with lighted cover. Reader was in new shape visually but the cover is in very poor condition. fortunately I had a replacement NOS T3 lighted cover for it. Seller had totally deleted the reader file structure so I need to restore it.
I started using my back up T1 a few days ago. It was fine when I shelved it, but I've noticed now that whenever I highlight a word, the internet link buttons pop-up, but the dictionary doesn't come up and things freeze.
I can usually recover from it, but the dictionary just doesn't open.
Has anyone that has had this fixed it with a factory reset or something?
I know my main reader has been rock solid, but that has only been since I rolled back the firmware and flash directly to the most recent version. (100% bug free for 2-3 years now.)
The dictionary thing I've just never seen before. I can roll the firmware back, but it's a bit of a chore.
Hi,
I m new one here, I try to make running my old reader.
I will be very greatfull if anybody could place original software for PRS 300.
thanks in advance
Hello, I want to read a kindle book on my Sony ereader, OR on my iPhone XR.
However, I do not know how to convert kindle to epub. I have a MAC.
On the iPhone, I downloaded the kindle app. With this app, I can read kindle books. However, I cannot have this app (for reasons too difficult to explain. It has to do with the fact that, with this app, I can buy all kinds of books on amazon. To be short, I need an app that does not allow me to buy new books. So I would be very happy with a 'read only' app. Does that exist? An app for iPhone that allows me to read a kindle ebook that I have bought via the MAC? Or else, is it possible somehow to convert the kindle ebook to epub, and then put it in my Sony ereader?
Thank you for helping me out.
Hi, revived my PRS300 recently after my nook Glowlight+ bit the dust. The fonts (all epub files) seem pretty thin and low-contrast. I know it's an older e-ink display technology, but is there any way to make the letters thicker with better contrast?
I have PRS-Plus installed, poked around the menus a bit, didn't find anything helpful. Suggestions? Thx!
Recently, I found that there is an area of the digital paper that cannot be marked or written. Please take a look at the attached screen capture then you will understand. Does anyone know why or have this issue too? I've tried resetting but to no avail. Any help is appreciated.
I have a PRS-T1 which is bricked with READER on the screen.
Tried some recovery methods descrided on the forum with SD card but nothing works. Also no USB connectivity to PC.
SD led keeps blinking orange.
power led steady red, the led behind the power led blinking orange.
After close to 10 years, my PRS-T1 finally had its internal eMMC flash fail. Not sure if it weared out, or if I messed up something as I was just doing some hacking when it happened. Anyway, the end result is that it just kept blinking yellow light, wouldn't go into recovery and wouldn't boot.
I opened it up and probed until I found serial port (UART) testpoints on the backside of the PCB. They are the three corner points in a group of 3x4 testpoints, shown in image below:
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Connecting them to USB-serial converter (3.3V voltage), I got access to boot messages. This is where I found about the flash issue:
Code:
mmcblk2: retrying using single block read(cmderr=0,dataerr=-110,stoperr=0)
mmcblk2: error -110 transferring data, sector 52832, nr 84, card status 0x80900
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk2, sector 52832
It was on the recovery filesystem area, so I did get it working by just forcing uboot to do a normal boot. But I fear that the internal flash may soon stop working completely if it already has a bad sector.
So I copied everything to a SD card and modified initramfs to mount mmcblk0 instead of mmcblk2. At the same time I added adb support.
This is how to rebuild the initrd (on PC Linux):
Code:
find | cpio -H newc -R 0:0 -o > ../initrd_new.cpio
gzip -c < initrd_new.cpio > initrd_new.gz
mkimage -A ARM -O Linux -T ramdisk -a 0x70308000 -C none -n 'Normal Rootfs' -d initrd_new.gz initrd_new
sudo dd if=initrd_new of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1 seek=5242880
Then it is just a matter of pointing uboot to boot kernel from mmc0 instead of mmc2. There are three ways to do it:
Write eMMC from Linux recovery environment
Write eMMC from uboot command prompt
Write NAND chip from uboot command prompt
Writing to eMMC is easiest, but if your eMMC was totally broken (not just bad sectors), you'd have to modify the uboot image in NAND so that it would load its configuration from mmc0 instead of mmc2.
To get recovery environment to boot, put rupor-rescue on the SD card partition 4 and then use this Python script to temporarily point uboot to load the rescue partition from SD card:
Code:
import serial, time, sys
s = serial.Serial("/dev/ttyUSB0", 115200, timeout = 0.1)
def slowsend(x):
for b in x:
s.write(b)
time.sleep(0.001)
while True:
d = s.read(32)
sys.stdout.write(d)
s.write(' ' * 32) # "Any key" for uboot
if 'Hit' in d:
slowsend("\r\nprintenv\r\n")
time.sleep(1.5)
# To boot recovery from SD card
slowsend("setenv bootargs 'root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootfstype=ext4 rw "
+ "rootwait init=/linuxrc console=ttymxc4,115200 bootdev=2 rawtable=0xF40000'\r\n")
# To boot normal system from SD card
# slowsend("setenv bootargs 'console=ttymxc4,115200 init=/init bootdev=0 rawtable=0xF40000'\r\n")
time.sleep(1.0)
slowsend("boot\r\n")
break
while True:
d = s.read(64)
sys.stdout.write(d)
You can also just copy-paste the commands to serial terminal, but that is a bit annoying as the watchdog will reboot the device if it is stuck in uboot for more than 10 seconds or so.
In the recovery shell you can run this to copy the uboot configuration from SD card to eMMC:
Hi,
I have a sony PRS 650. I recently purchased a book from Kobo, downloaded it as usual and loaded it into calibre with all my other books. When I sent it to my sony and tried reading it, everytime I tried, it rebooted the sony. No problem reading it in the calibre reader.
In the past I have had the occasional problem with my reader with epubs where the blocks of .xhtml text are too large for it to handle. You get it seizing up when reading after a few pages. The solution for that has been to convert the epub file to epub and modify the output so that the blocks of .xhtml text are split so that none are larger than 60kb.
While not exactly the same symptoms I tried that, despite the fact that none of the files in the original epub exceeded the 60kb limit. The only difference it made was that when I selected the book I could see the cover. If I tried moving to the next page then the book went blank and rebooted again.
I have now tried the converted book in a borrowed Nook Glowlight with no problems.
Can anyone suggest another approach or some way of identifying precisely what the problem is?
just started reusing my PRS 650 after 10 years !! The firmware is 1.0.00.08100. i looked at Sony website but last update seems to be for using Kobo. No problems with machine,apart from when on medium font size it can lose some lines when going to next page and i have to change back to small font setting temporarily to read the missing bits.Everything else is fine as i get used it. i am on Windows 10.So all i need to resolve is the font size problem.
Hello again - the site has just informed that last time I have been here was eight years ago :)
At the time I was using PRS-500, which died long time ago, so when I saw a PRS-600 at a local flea market for peanuts, I picked it up out of sentiment, even though I had not much hope to get it running.
Here is what the problem with it seems to be: when I bought it, the battery was empty for months I guess. The screen looked OK - it displayed a page from some book (no low battery warning though, which my PRS-500 displayed died with when out of juice). However, when I have charged it, it seems that only one corner of the screen refreshes and even then only with some weird lines - only the battery indicator seems to display OK.
My question is: is it likely for the screen to be damaged, even though the last display was OK? Or maybe is it some early e-ink weirdness that can be somehow rectified?
Could someone provide the individual partition dumps of p1,p2,p3,p4,p5,p6,p7,p8,p9,p10 from a rooted PRS-T1 on 1.0.05? Preferable NL/EU version, but willing to try US.
I'm trying for days now to root this machine, bought it used last week with 1.0.07, but all my attempts result in WIFI not working, it will after reflashing the indiviual partitions of 1.0.07, but I want just basic android apps (calendar) where rooted 1.0.05 is required.
I have a T1 and a T3 but have never used the library functions. In fact I have never turned on WiFi. I sideloaded all my books and even sideloaded upgrades.
Could anyone give me some instructions about how to download books to the Reader? I have looked at the Wiki and the sticky about Digital Editions and I can't tell if I can download books directly to the Reader. The T3 wasn't sold in the US so maybe I have to use the T1.
I am trying to get this set up for my grand-daughter. Any help would be appreciated.
Yesterday I went to sideload a book with Calibre. Connecting the USB cable, it wasn't visible (the cable to the reader or the reader to my PC)... the battery charge symbol didn't even come on.
I tried a second cable and just plugging in to a wall charger. Also no luck.
Anyone see this before? I'm pretty sure I'm screwed, but I figured I'd ask before I do a factory reset to clear any data before it dies for good.
I just picked up a T2 reader and went to Sony's page to check out downloads and there are no firmwares.
Did the T2 only have the factory firmware and that's all?
Edit: Yes. Their page is confusing. The updated firmware is 2.4.01.10241. It LOOKS like the download links are for Win/Mac software, but that is the installers for the firmware... except the page doesn't say the links are firmware until you click through.
