Touch Best firmware for Kobo Touch N905B prior to 3.17/3.18?

Spheres · 07-11-2017, 07:29 AM

Hi,

I recently dug out my old Kobo Touch (N905B) and I immediately was confronted with the old problem it had when I put it aside for a tablet a few years ago: I could only update to a firmware around version 3.17 or 3.18, anything above that would crash my Touch after a minute or so, even after trying every possible way of resetting the device. And no difference trying the current firmware version (4.4.9349) now which is installed via the desktop software with the regular set up.

So, is there any consesus about what the most usable and stable version prior to 3.17/3.18 was? I don’t want to try out loads of old images just to find these or that annoying problems.

Thanks
Spheres

Alastair_S · 07-12-2017, 06:59 PM

Hi there.

The latest firmware versions should work on a Touch so something else may be causing the problem. Usually the most likely cause is either a corrupt database or 'sickel' kicking in and rebooting the device due to the processing of a complicated ebook taking too long.

To test the latter hypothesis you could try stopping sickel from triggering automatic reboots by installing frostschutz's hack, see:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=28

Spheres · 07-13-2017, 11:07 AM

Hi, I completely resetted the Touch multiple times via manual factory reset, so the database shouldn’t be the problem.

I see I was a bit unspecific in my first post with “crashing”. I meant the Touch completely freezes after a couple of minutes after turning on (with one of the newer firmware versions installed), without doing anything with it or even copying over anything to it. When I do another manual factory reset and switch back to a version prior to 3.17, there are no freezes.

koboy · 07-13-2017, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spheres

Hi, I completely resetted the Touch multiple times via manual factory reset, so the database shouldn’t be the problem.

I see I was a bit unspecific in my first post with “crashing”. I meant the Touch completely freezes after a couple of minutes after turning on (with one of the newer firmware versions installed), without doing anything with it or even copying over anything to it. When I do another manual factory reset and switch back to a version prior to 3.17, there are no freezes.

3.16.0 works fine on my Touch.

best wishes koboy

07-11-2017, 07:29 AM	#1
Spheres Member Posts: 11 Karma: 29120 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Germany Device: Kobo Touch	Best firmware for Kobo Touch N905B prior to 3.17/3.18? Hi, I recently dug out my old Kobo Touch (N905B) and I immediately was confronted with the old problem it had when I put it aside for a tablet a few years ago: I could only update to a firmware around version 3.17 or 3.18, anything above that would crash my Touch after a minute or so, even after trying every possible way of resetting the device. And no difference trying the current firmware version (4.4.9349) now which is installed via the desktop software with the regular set up. So, is there any consesus about what the most usable and stable version prior to 3.17/3.18 was? I don’t want to try out loads of old images just to find these or that annoying problems. Thanks Spheres

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07-12-2017, 06:59 PM	#2
Alastair_S Zealot Posts: 114 Karma: 1425448 Join Date: Feb 2014 Device: Kobo Touch	Hi there. The latest firmware versions should work on a Touch so something else may be causing the problem. Usually the most likely cause is either a corrupt database or 'sickel' kicking in and rebooting the device due to the processing of a complicated ebook taking too long. To test the latter hypothesis you could try stopping sickel from triggering automatic reboots by installing frostschutz's hack, see: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=28

07-13-2017, 11:07 AM	#3
Spheres Member Posts: 11 Karma: 29120 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Germany Device: Kobo Touch	Hi, I completely resetted the Touch multiple times via manual factory reset, so the database shouldn’t be the problem. I see I was a bit unspecific in my first post with “crashing”. I meant the Touch completely freezes after a couple of minutes after turning on (with one of the newer firmware versions installed), without doing anything with it or even copying over anything to it. When I do another manual factory reset and switch back to a version prior to 3.17, there are no freezes.