Thread: Touch Returned my Kobo Touch
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Old 03-02-2012, 08:20 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by plib View Post
Umm, no, it doesn't.

On the Kobo the paperclip button is supposed to do a reset back to last known good configuration, or equivalent. The reset to firmware option is to press the Home button and power button simultaneously, which, in my case at least, didn't register. As both these buttons have alternate uses whatever was supposed to register the simultaneous press for a different purpose didn't work. Which only reinforces the point about the firmware reset button needing to be a single function hardware process.
That's not how I understand it works. "known memory location" has nothing to do with "last known good config". The processor will always start from the same point after a hardware reset (paperclip), it then may choose to alter the defaults to factory before it continues to boot, if it sees the other (home) button is also pressed - but that's AFTER the hardware reset, because a crashed processor cannot do anything.
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