Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-25 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Bot the Trek and Stream2 got a minor bugfix update to fix an issue with Bookshare. Insures us that the STream2 is, well, not dead , then again they never said they were gonna abandon it. As a Trek user myself I"m also aware th

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-25 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Bot the Trek and Stream2 got a minor bugfix update to fix an issue with Bookshare. Insures us that the STream2 is, well, not dead , then again they never said they were gonna abandon it. As a Trek user myself I"m also aware th

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players As for network browsing, there's only so much tentative space the device can handle before it completely flips. Remember that it pre-scans the media on a medium so that browsing and playing it is seemless. My 128gb sd card hadn't even

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players As for network browsing, there's only so much tentative space the device can handle before it completely flips. Remember that it pre-scans the media on a medium so that browsing and playing it is seemless. My 128gb sd card hadn't even

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Keep in mind that a U.S. user is missing out on a large portion of stream features, that is Daisy Online. Direct to player delivery is something the CNIB and other European distribution libraries have, allowing fully dynamic media

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I bet you the BPP has less than a GB of storage. The operating system probably takes up a large chunk of the available space. When you add one Vocalizer voice which is probably 100 to 150 MB plus the human voice clips, there's

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I bet you the BPP has less than a GB of storage. The operating system probably takes up a large chunk of the available space. When you add one Vocalizer voice which is probably 100 to 150 MB plus the human voice clips, there's

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I bet you the BPP has less than a GB of storage. The operating system probably takes up a large chunk of the available space. When you add one Vocalizer voice which is probably 100 to 150 MB plus the human voice clips, there's

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I bet you the BPP has less than a GB of storage. The operating system probably takes up a large chunk of the available space. WHen you add one Vocalizer voice which is probably 100 MB plus voice clips, there's probably not much

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Not necessarily, it only had space for one vocalizer automotive Samantha voice, for some reason Tom is still compact. The Victor Reader Stream2 would be the drive that's 2gb, storing acapela voices and barely enough room for podcasts

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jacerbt via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players The bpp has both samantha and tom on it. The drive in it has to be at least 2 gb because you have either 1 gb or 30 minuts of voice memmoes on inturnal and you also have to think about the software URL: https://forum.audiogames.net

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jacerbt via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players The bpp has both samantha and tom on it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/438178/#p438178 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players It's just the talking book player. Same site that sells those rockboxed Clip Zip players. It won't play protected content from book libraries like nls and rfb and d though, so it's not quite as convenient. Also, processor choice

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Angel via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Lol that stream is so lo powerred, even lower than a 50 dollars android phone, or just an amazon fire, but I believe that thing is t big for most people to travel with.But now really you can get a cheap android phone and use

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Also, Humanware actually fully admitted that their prices were never meant to be reasonable for individual customers, the difference between then and now is that state agencies are either losing funding, or they have funding

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Actually, to be brutally honest, the Victor series has just been energy-efficient no matter the cpu. The dragonboard410C doesn't drain the battery on the Trek. Even with the GPS on, you can still get a good 10 to 12 hours

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players A 580 MHz processor? Woah! How about RAM? 256 or 128 MB? Anything less? Wow! No wonder it gets such great battery life. Now I wonder if the Book Port Plus has similar specs? Maybe a 512 MB hard disk if were lucky? I'm starting

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players @Chris:Finn tells me the Stream2 is using a freescale 580MHz single-core arm11 CPU. The Braillenote Apex used something from the freescale series, I imagine the Stream2's is weaker due to it being an embedded device. Put simply

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players That explains why downloads are so slow. If they're running as background processes and the CPU isn't great to begin with, woah! Now I want to write to Humanware asking about the specs. I suppose the worst that can happen is they tell

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players That explains why downloads are so slow. If they're running as background processes and the CPU isn't great to begin with, woah! Now I want to write to Humanware asking about the specs. I suppose the worst that can happen is they tell

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players That explains why downloads are so slow. If they're running as background processes and the CPU isn't powerful to begin with, woah! Now I want to write to Humanware asking about the specs. I suppose the worst that can happen

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : arqmeister via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players The thing the stream has going for it is the long baterie life, plus a lot of formats are supported. I like my iPad, but i wanted something smaller and spasifically made for reading, that's why i made the purchase. URL: https

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Their own code isn't gpl licensed, so that would explain it. And @Chris: The Stream's processor is tiny, trust me. That's no Pi0 powering that thing. Notice how the STream2 isn't light as a feather without the battery, and the Trek

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Ethin via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I can confirm that the stream is written using C or some other compiled language and is using staticly linked libraries, according to Humanware. (I had sent them an email requesting the source code since the kernel was licensed under

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sam_Tupy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players OK so keep in mind with your idea of modding the stream. I haven't messed with it much so who knows maybe it's actually possible, but I'm guessing most of the stream's firmware is compiled to native machine code from C or some other

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players If the Stream can support audio from video files, it should work. The U2 only had I believe a 1 GHz CPU and 256 MB of RAM. I'm not sure if it could display the video data, but it managed to play audio just fine from what I've heard

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : ernie via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players why not youtube though? yes no video, but audio still works, and the hims note takers used to have youtube, granted, they are way more powerful, well, maybe not, but they had youtube. and the hims blaze had skype. hmm, tt for the vr

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : arqmeister via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I'll probably keep my stream offline most of the time, and just transfer books the USB route. I went ahead and purchased one of those ultimate tech mods SD cards, so i'll have a fail safe. I intend on imaging the original card

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Why couldn't the Stream handle most of the features above? Yes, YouTube is most likely out of the question, but everything else shouldn't require a ton of processing power.If the Trek has those specifications, the Stream must

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-29 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players @Chris: Humanware is not abandoning the Stream. However, do realize that the Trek will undoubtedly be getting more advanced features than the STream2 in the long run. I'm told in a few months we'll have iBeacon support, FM radio

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-29 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players How did you execute batch scripts on the unit? If you can get the hardware info, that would be interesting. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/437321/#p437321 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-29 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sam_Tupy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Awww they are worried about people hacking the bookport plus? Ehh hem, you mean, like running batch scripts on it and dumping the entire filesystem? yes, I did that. Yes it is running windows SE core 5.0 if I remember correctly. I

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-29 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Oh wow, I didn't think this thing would come back. Well, here goes...If you're going to be modifying the Stream software, I'd suggest either not tampering with the original card or making sure you've made a good working backup. I'm

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-29 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Oh wow, I didn't think this thing would come back. Well, here goes...If you're going to be modifying the Stream software, I'd suggest either not tampering with the original card or making sure you've made a good working backup. I'm

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-29 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Oh wow, I didn't think this thing would come back. Well, here goes...If you're going to be modifying the Stream software, I'd suggest either not tampering with the original card or making sure you've made a good working backup. I'm

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-29 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Thatguy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players You know, I'd kinda like to know that too. Because right now, mine won't boot lol. I've recently seen ads for ultimate tech mods online, but I don't really want to pay upwards of 30 dollars to get my stream fixed if I don't have

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2019-05-28 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : arqmeister via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Hey guys just bringing this back to prepare for any bricking situations i might have with my new generation victor stream. So i know the thing runs off that micro SD car under the baterie, but what happens if it won't boot

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-03-29 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players That reminds me of the braille-n-speak. The 5 batteries of that thing were soldered together. I"m thinking that may be the same case with the Braillenote's batteries, they're probably just soldered if they look like one whole. An

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-03-29 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : braille0109 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players since the apex in question, I had to be careful with, as that wasn't mine. basically, under the battery, below the tiny tape, is the RAM. if the unit doesn't boot up, that's what they replace. when you remove the 6 screws out

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-03-29 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : braille0109 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players since the apex in question, I had to be careful with, as that wasn't mine. basically, under the battery, below the tiny tape, is the RAM. if the unit doesn't boot up, that's what they replace. when you remove the 6 screws out

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-03-28 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Nicads to be exact. not sure how common Batteries Plus's were at the time of the MPower's release, they probably had to be somewhat lesser known than they are now to justify HUmanware telling you to send it back to them

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-03-28 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I'd like to know the specifications of the MPower and Apex. I heard the MPower uses Double A batteries. Is this true? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357207#p357207 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-03-28 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : braille0109 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players speaking of humanware, having completely dismantled an MPOWER before, and having partially dismantled an apex, with the standard as you can ever get cross shaped screw driver, I totally understand you above. humanware's devices

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-03-27 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I actually wonder what board it is. Feels pi-ish to me, but not the pi3. By the way, the Trek is using a Qualcom Snapdragon chipset. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357164#p357164 -- Audiogames-reflector

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-03-27 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : big d via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I got it. For anyone who may be having problems figuring this out, yes, there is a sticker on the sticker. There are, in fact, two stickers. One closer to the numbers on the keypad, and the other closer to the sleep and rewind/play

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-03-17 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Samy, since it's been a while, check your pm's. You've got one. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355845#p355845 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-02-03 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Here are the steps to clone the internal MicroSD card to a new, bigger MicroSD card for Victor Reader Stream (New Generation).1. Connect the internal MicroSD card to a Linux box, and create a disk image of the internal MicroSD

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Angel via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Well, I have 2 furbies, but these are from Germany, the one from 98 and the one from 2005 and I do not know if can I kange them into english. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=346181#p346181

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Green Gables Fan via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Speaking of which, the Braille Note Touch has an internal removable SD card as well. I don't think this was present on older devices, certainly not the Bok Port Plus, although it's likely that it runs Linux, which means you have

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Almost every micro sd card comes with an adapter, so if you buy a cheap micro sd you can easily get the adapter you need. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=346175#p346175

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players @Ethin From the pictures, it seems to be a standard big SD card, and not a MicroSD card. Many laptops accept SD cards just fine.Update: It could be a miniSD card but it is hard to tell from the photos. Maybe other folks from

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players @Ethin From the pictures, it seems to be a standard big SD card, and not a Micro SD card. Many laptops accept SD cards just fine.Update: It could be a miniSD card but it is hard to tell from the photos. Maybe other folks from

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players @Ethin From the pictures, it seems to be a standard big SD card, and not a Micro SD card. Many laptops accept SD cards just fine. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=346124#p346124

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Ethin via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players @samy, micro SD cards can't just be plugged into SD card readers and be read from. The problem with these tiny cards is their size. It is extremely easy to lose one. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=346103#p346103

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I was able to verify that upgrading OpenSSL is possible.$ MALLOC_CHECK_=0 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. qemu-arm ./wget --no-check-certificate https://localhost:4443/msg.txtThe wget binary comes from the VRStream 2 firmware, and it running

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players @Chris Thanks for chiming in. (1) I don't have the exact hardware specifications so far (2) Yes, I understand the problems involved. Hence, I am actively trying to find alternate ways in which VRStream 2 owners can help. URL: http

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I was able to verify that upgrading OpenSSL is possible.$ MALLOC_CHECK_=0 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. qemu-arm ./wget --no-check-certificate https://localhost:4443/msg.txtThe wget binary comes from the VRStream 2 firmware, and it running

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Hello,What does the modified firmware do? I'd also like to know more info about the processor, RAM, and total disk size of the Micro SD card. I don't think I'll be modifying the software as it would be really hard to repair seeing

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Ethin via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players @samy, if you can get this going and get a true stable environment working I'd love to help. The OpenSSL libraries most definitely need to be updated, as well as the kernel, though I doubt we could do that safely without ruining

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Take a look at the initial messages posted to this thread. They talk about how one can access the internal Micro SD storage of VRStream 2 device through the battery compartment.Since I don't have the hardware myself, I am trying

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players VRStream 2 has a very standard ARMv5 processor, and software-wise it is running a 2.6.x Linux kernel with glibc 2.9 and OpenSSL 1.0.0d.I have a compiler toolchain which targets VRStream 2 working now. I am now looking for help

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Green Gables Fan via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Can you describe the process through which you were able to access the internal space of the Victor Reader Stream? What firmware operating system does it use? Did you have to use SSH or Bash? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2018-01-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I have been able to develop a modified firmware for VRStream 2. It doesn't have extra functionality for now as I want to rule out flashing/bricking issues first.The modified firmware should not brick the VRStream 2 device

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-12-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Ethin via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players @samy, I don't mean to destroy your hopes or anything, but the victor reader stream/trek firmware is not a normal Linux OS. Added to that is the fact that the libraries are statically linked and the kernel is heavily modified

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-12-31 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Green Gables Fan via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I am hoping to get a Victor Reader Trekk. I used to have a Victor Stream, but it belonged to the regional service district and so I had to return it. But I have a Book Port Plus. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-12-30 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : samy via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Hi,I am interested in developing a custom firmware for Victor Reader Stream device but I don't know if doing so is possible yet. Do you have a Victor Reader Stream device which you want to experiment on? If yes, please PM me and we

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-13 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Green Gables Fan via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Hello, I found this topic whilst browsing, and it's something that I've been fascinated with as well.For example, I just got a book port plus yesterday. I updated it to the latest version, but I don't like the new Samantha voice. I

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players So you're saying there's more than one sticker on the battery cavity? I e, a sticker under the obvious noticeable one? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318957#p318957

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jfayre via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Unfortunately, I can't be of much more help here. The sticker wasn't all that easy to get off, but it should come without too much force. You may need to get someone to eye ball it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I'm putting nails in the area in between the cavity and the near top of the device with the battery latch, but the thing isn't moving. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318953#p318953

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Sounds like the exact same way the Pen Friend secures the micro SD card it uses for its internal storage. If it is, the metal cover over the micro SD card should slide down without too much force, then hinge up with no force at all

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Ok. Is that plastic covering normal? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318947#p318947 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jfayre via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players The door lifts up and rests against the end of the player. You slide the door away from the battery latch, then lift it up. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318945#p318945

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Where should I start sliding, and how hard should I slide it? It's a plastic thing with a square in the middle and what appear to be indentations on the other sides. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318937#p318937

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players My sticker came off as just a sheet with no adhesive, the rest of the adhesive left on the player. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318933#p318933 ___ Audiogames

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jfayre via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I'm wondering if maybe all of the sticker didn't come off. Mine came off as one rectangular sheet, with no adhesive left behind.Does anyone have a way of getting in touch with Konrad so he could chime in here? URL: http

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players And do you mean put a fingernail in that slit between the two parts of the casing, then pull it open? Although you did say you had to slide it so doubt that's the way. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318924#p318924

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I removed the sticker. You know, the one that covers about half the width of that area. The one that's obvious that it's a sticker. So you're saying there's a sticker under that? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jfayre via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players The entire area over that sd card is a sticker. I needed to get a finger nail under it to remove it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318921#p318921 ___ Audiogames

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players And I believe the sticker I removed from the battery compartment was the only sticker there is. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318920#p318920 ___ Audiogames

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Well the good thing is you're not unscrewing anything, so there's absolutely no risk of physical damage to the stream, no static discharge, no stuff like that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318918#p318918

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players One thing I'm thinking regarding this thread is that it would be nice to gain access to the internal storage on the Stream and the Trek when its released and I get mine. I have about 40 BARD books, and 25 book share books

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Chris, being a Linux micro sd card, it must come with a fat32 partition called boot, unless the linux partition was seriously modified in a way that that was removed. Hint hint, if you put an empty file with no extension called ssh

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players It's that area nearest the battery latch. I press and I feel a square which must be the card, and if I press to the left or right of that, it appears to be holes underneath, or at least indents. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players What are the partitions on the card? I know data must be something like 2.67 GB in size. The original second gen Stream only came with a 4 GB card? That is sad. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318911#p318911

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jfayre via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players If you press on the area where the sticker is, you can actually feel the card under it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318910#p318910 ___ Audiogames-reflector

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jfayre via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players how large was the sticker you removed? It covers the whole space above that ridge. The smaller section, not the larger one. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318908#p318908

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players I feel the 3 battery contact ridges of course, then plastic casing, then moving up I feel the very small space in between 2 pieces, then what feels like plastic casing is the area where I removed the sticker, with residue from

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players By the way, my stream2 is the 2 gig model, if that makes any difference. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318903#p318903 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jfayre via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players that's odd. Maybe. Can you feel the little metal door over the card? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318900#p318900 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Just found out the adhesive isn't effective by the way. It's probably just residue. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318901#p318901 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Nothing's sliding, but there's adhesive on the back of the unit, not the sticker. The sticker has no adhesive whatsoever, i e, I could reattach it and it would stick to the back. Must not be able to slide then? URL: http

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Well, the sticker's off, and the back is where the adhesive is, not the sticker itself. Now for the door itself. What's the trick to that? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318897#p318897

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jfayre via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players The door slides, then lifts up. If you slide it toward the end wher the battery contacts are, you should feel a click. You can then lift it up.No, I think that adhesive is pretty much gone once you remove that. URL: http

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Well, the sticker's off, and the back is where the adhesive is, not the ticker itself. Now for the door itself. What's the trick to that? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=318897#p318897

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Oh, and that would explain why the sticker is harder to remove. Because of what's under it. Lol! Thing though, is does the adhesive remain, or is it a once and done? Just wondering in case that door isn't exactly secure. URL: http

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players That's weird. I actually asked him a similar thing, well I actually asked him if there was a debug mode to back up my internal sd card on my old stream2 because the sd card reader broke and was no longer reading cards. He gave me

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jfayre via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Hi,No, the internal Micro SD card is under a sticker in the battery compartment. All you need to do is take out the battery and remove the sticker. Then the sd card is under a little door that pops up.I thought about resizing the SD

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jack via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Are you telling me the micro sd card isn't soldered into the stream 2? Are you getting the thing open on your own too with its 2 screws in the top left and right side of the stream? Also, that's weird. Konrad usually responds

Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players

2017-07-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jfayre via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players Hi all,Just found this topic after doing some google searching.I have found out that it is possible to replace the built-in memory in the stream in order to allow you to store more data from services like Daisy Direct to Player

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