On Sat, 25 Dec 2010, Jeff wrote:
There are 2 different wikireaders available. One with a 2gb card and one with
a 4+gb card. As I understand it, the 2gb only supports a single language, and
the English version is a special one that will fit in 2gb. The 4+gb version
will do multiple languages and other things. Since I am from the USA, I am a
pin head and only speak one language ;) . I therefore have the full English
wiki, along with wikiquotes and the wiktionary and no other languages.
The 4gb version supposedly can use micro-sd up 16gb.
Also, to make sure you are running the correct version of software, there
should be a globe icon on the main screen. You use that to select other
languages/wikis.
That's exactly what I'm missing. My first WR has the globe icon, the
second doesn't.
But then, where can I download those two different images?
Hope that helped.
Jeff
Yes, a bit, thanks!
Do you have other pages of information than the github?
Alex.
On 12/25/2010 3:53 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote:
Sorry for posting this here, I don't know if there's already a list for the
WR.
I've got a WikiReader now for some month and my 10y daughter surprisingly
likes it, so I finally decided to get one for my parents as christmas gift.
The one I've got came with english, german and netherlands wikis, so I
assumed the new one would do so, too. But it didn't, so I had to update the
german language package.
The Update software so far is really easy and it recognizes the SD card
without choosing it from any USB device.
It told my to update the base image and the german language, it took about
3-4 hours to download the 1.7GB.
After starting the WR again, even the english language was gone, only an
empty search window showed up.
So I looked at the content of the SD card and still the timestamps of the
base files seemed wery old to me. The german language package seemed ok.
Then I downloaded the base image from the .torrent file, which seemed to me
the only up-to-date source I could get.
It was quite a pain, because the only torrent client I had on my parents
computer was the torrent downloader from Opera, which is quite slow
compared to other torrent clients.
After putting the new base files to the SD card, at least the german
language was there. I don't know what happened with the english.
According to the docs there seems to be a single-language installation (all
lang files at root directory) and a multi-lang version with each language
in a subfolder. Obviously the do not co-exist.
And the well-known problems: Touchscreen is hard to handle (but learnable),
backlight for people of higher age is really missing
because of their eyes.
At least the contrast setup (which seems only to appear if you boot the
device without sd card) could/should be part of the usual sdcard-'OS'.
(for example pressing the power button short instead of holding it for
power-down?).
So far I'm now happy with it, I like the device, if my parents do - we will
see ;)
Alex.
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