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Onlinehorst · 06-13-2013, 12:21 PM

There seems to be another way to fix a bricked Kobo Touch. I have the following model:

MODEL: N905C
FCC ID: NOIKBN905C
IC: 8857A-KBN905C

I bricked my Kobo after I updated it with a wrong firmware (N905B-Firmware). After that it was stuck at the "restarting" screen. A factory reset (small pinhole in the back of the kobo) would only lead to a flashing green LED, but nothing more.

So I suspect the Kobo tried to boot the wrong firmware and got stuck in this process. What I did now was:

1. Download the correct Firmware-Version and unzip it
2. Remove the SD from inside the Kobo and put it into my computer
3. Put the files inside the firmware-folder into the .kobo-Folder on the SD-Card (I'm on a Mac, but this folder should be the same for any user. If not, look it up in a tutorial for updating your Kobo manually)
4. Put the SD back into the Kobo
5. Reset the Kobo with the Pinhole-Method

After that the green LED kept flashing until my Kobo was alive again. It's fully functional now.

I hope this helps, as this method should be a lot easier than searching or asking for the SD-Image.

06-13-2013, 12:21 PM	#34
Onlinehorst Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2013 Device: Kobo Touch N905C	There seems to be another way to fix a bricked Kobo Touch. I have the following model: MODEL: N905C FCC ID: NOIKBN905C IC: 8857A-KBN905C I bricked my Kobo after I updated it with a wrong firmware (N905B-Firmware). After that it was stuck at the "restarting" screen. A factory reset (small pinhole in the back of the kobo) would only lead to a flashing green LED, but nothing more. So I suspect the Kobo tried to boot the wrong firmware and got stuck in this process. What I did now was: 1. Download the correct Firmware-Version and unzip it 2. Remove the SD from inside the Kobo and put it into my computer 3. Put the files inside the firmware-folder into the .kobo-Folder on the SD-Card (I'm on a Mac, but this folder should be the same for any user. If not, look it up in a tutorial for updating your Kobo manually) 4. Put the SD back into the Kobo 5. Reset the Kobo with the Pinhole-Method After that the green LED kept flashing until my Kobo was alive again. It's fully functional now. I hope this helps, as this method should be a lot easier than searching or asking for the SD-Image.