[dioioib]

i just received a replacement unit today. Charged it. Loaded the new firmware from the Mac version of the desktop app. Reset device. It loaded the 1.9.16 firmware. Restarted. Then processed content. The device after processing content was not responsive to touches. Restarted, froze on startup. Reset, freezes again, so reset again. Finally loads into the home screen, then processes content more quickly. Reader completes processing and loads the home screen, I am able to press home, then the device freezes. Attempt to reset again with the same result. Then again, then again. Again I attempt to reset this time it freezes on the smily face screen with 3 solid blocks to the right side of the row of squares. Repeated process 2 more times. Attempted hardware reset, unit ends up flashing with a blue led repeatedly. Attempt using a paperclip to reset with no success. Attempted to do a hardware reset 3 more times, with no success. Tried one more time, led flashes red, and finally starts the hard reset. The unit loads version 1.9.5(r2967x July 2011). Insert 16gb Class 10 (SDXC A-DATA microSD card). Waited for over 10 minutes before the unit detected the card and started processing the content. I am currently waiting for my content to process on the device again.

New recommendations:

- Give me the ability to sync with my sd card when I want to not when the device thinks it should.
- Give me the ability to use multiple sd cards in the device. This will require you to change the SQL structure and change the way your device thumbnails images for each cover.
- keep the covers on each sd card. but also give me the option to use cover images.
- in your sql file don't use a "device:/dir/file.extension." Do something like "device:volume label:/dir/file.extension"
- let me sort my library into collections.
- let me use the device without connecting to your desktop application, because in all honesty its a completely useless program unless you buy your books directly from the kobo store which I don't. I primarily use my device to read journal articles, datasheets, white papers and other technical documents. I have no interest in using this device to read novels.

I am quite confident that my problems would be eliminated if you did away with the SQL database and used a file tree structure that I could manage myself. Restrict the DRM literature to the SQL database you are using for managing encryption keys etc.

In the mean time I will be happily waiting for a working version of 1.9.17.