Dear Mobileread Community,
I need your help in replacing screen image when Kindle Paperwhite 3 (5.9.7) is connected via USB.
I had no problem doing that on Kindle 4 Non-Touch.
However, it seems like besides the png file itself, their is also an eips (?) command to draw something else.
What I did:
1) Prepared an image. Just took my favorite one and after some tweaks in GIMP, I finally converted it to a proper eips-compatible format:
2) Replaced bg_usbconnect.png in /usr/share/blanket/usb and gave it the same permission chmod as it was of the original one. I attached my screen image to this post.
3) Now, when I connect to USB, my new screen image shows up very well, but on top of that there are two more things. One is a text 'If you want to read while still charging... blahblah', another is a small white square of a charging icon. I can see that it is ov_default_charging.png (I attached it too) in the same folder.
4) I returned to (1) and added a white circle approximately at location around that square.
Why approximately? Because I don't have exact coordinates or a combined pictures of them all.
Well, here come two problems:
1) I have no idea how to take screenshot of the screen while Kindle is connected via USB. I tried to:
— press the diagonally opposite corners of the screen (as for usual screenshot). Screen blinks, as if it took a screenshot, but I can't find it. I guess, because /mnt/us/ is now unmounted and presented to PC, there is no place to put screenshot to.
— access ssh during usb connection, but Kindle is inaccessible when connected, so I can't reach command line to invoke 'screenshot' command.
— connect to ssh first, then do 'sleep 20; screenshot' command, then connect to usb and wait for these 20 sec to pass. Screen again flashes as if it took the screenshot, but I can't find it anywhere.
2) I have no success in finding a script for USB connection event neither to see how these two extra things are drawn. I looked up in /etc/upstart/ using Total Commander's 'Search in files' feature trying to find anything related to 'usb'. There should be a daemon (or sort of 'listener') that catches the /mnt/us/ upon usb connection and manages its mount to PC and back to Kindle.
If I have at least coordinates of that little square, I could've replaced it by the same pixels of my new image at these coordinates, so that the square would seem 'transparent'.
Do you guys have any suggestions?
Thanks!
I need your help in replacing screen image when Kindle Paperwhite 3 (5.9.7) is connected via USB.
I had no problem doing that on Kindle 4 Non-Touch.
However, it seems like besides the png file itself, their is also an eips (?) command to draw something else.
What I did:
1) Prepared an image. Just took my favorite one and after some tweaks in GIMP, I finally converted it to a proper eips-compatible format:
Code:
convert input.png -type GrayScale -depth 8 -colors 256 -resize 1072x1448! output.png3) Now, when I connect to USB, my new screen image shows up very well, but on top of that there are two more things. One is a text 'If you want to read while still charging... blahblah', another is a small white square of a charging icon. I can see that it is ov_default_charging.png (I attached it too) in the same folder.
4) I returned to (1) and added a white circle approximately at location around that square.
Why approximately? Because I don't have exact coordinates or a combined pictures of them all.
Well, here come two problems:
1) I have no idea how to take screenshot of the screen while Kindle is connected via USB. I tried to:
— press the diagonally opposite corners of the screen (as for usual screenshot). Screen blinks, as if it took a screenshot, but I can't find it. I guess, because /mnt/us/ is now unmounted and presented to PC, there is no place to put screenshot to.
— access ssh during usb connection, but Kindle is inaccessible when connected, so I can't reach command line to invoke 'screenshot' command.
— connect to ssh first, then do 'sleep 20; screenshot' command, then connect to usb and wait for these 20 sec to pass. Screen again flashes as if it took the screenshot, but I can't find it anywhere.
2) I have no success in finding a script for USB connection event neither to see how these two extra things are drawn. I looked up in /etc/upstart/ using Total Commander's 'Search in files' feature trying to find anything related to 'usb'. There should be a daemon (or sort of 'listener') that catches the /mnt/us/ upon usb connection and manages its mount to PC and back to Kindle.
If I have at least coordinates of that little square, I could've replaced it by the same pixels of my new image at these coordinates, so that the square would seem 'transparent'.
Do you guys have any suggestions?
Thanks!