Hacking the Xteink X4: A look at custom firmware and personalization
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A user shares their experience hacking and customizing their new Xteink X4 e-reader device. They highlight the CrossPoint Reader custom firmware as the most popular open-source option, noting features like font customization, WiFi book loading, and browser-based firmware flashing. The author mentions running vanilla CrossPoint and experimenting with building their own custom firmware, though they only got partially through that process.
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· 5 pulledI recently got an Xteink and it is a really cute little e-reader device!
The most popular custom firmware for The Xteink is called CrossPoint Reader, which is fully open source and really great.
Their website has ways to customize your fonts, load books over WiFi, flash their firmware from the browser (so cool), and also flash whatever custom firmware you want!
I’m currently sporting just the good ol' vanilla CrossPoint, but I did experiment a bit with making my own.
I got like… 40% of the way into turning it
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