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Old 09-12-2012, 06:20 PM   #111
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A note about factories.

I'm just guessing on whether the letter is a factory code or not. Considering serial numbers are generally sequential, and assigning blocks of numbers to a factory can lead to problems, it is easier to just tag the serial number with the factory code and let multiple devices have the same numeric part of the serial number.

Kobo will probably be using a limited number of factories, all of the devices are most likely being made in Taiwan or China.

A number of devices in this thread have a B letter code, these devices were sold all over the world.

It's possible that Kobo has a master list of serial numbers and has information regarding things like factory hardware and firmware levels. Or they may have encoded this information in the serial number. The only thing that we know for sure is that it isn't encoded on the 2nd, 4th and 5th fields, as everyone has the same values in those fields.

Now I'm wondering what would happen if you changed the serial number to a Japanese version and see if Desktop will download the 2.1.1 software automatically.
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