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Darth_Bane · 05-12-2012, 06:51 PM

Buddy at work has a Kobo Wifi that has slowed to a crawl. Turning a page takes about 15 seconds, which is about 14.5 seconds slower than last week. It happens with any book, even the built-in User Guide, so it's not a malformed EPUB issue. Even the power button behaves sluggishly; the unit turns off before the screen actually clears.

I did a complete factory reset, which did not improve anything at all. I later installed the wifi telnet hack to look under the hood and everything looks good. No extra processes, CPU load is negligible, RAM usage is normal, compared to my working wifi. No slowdowns in command line telnet response when waiting for the page to change, so it doesn't look like a CPU problem.

It looks like the display itself has slowed down like molasses in the Arctic! Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

05-12-2012, 06:51 PM	#1
Darth_Bane Dark Lord of the Sith Posts: 60 Karma: 95334 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far Far Away Device: Sony PRS-505 and PRS-300, Kobo Wifi, Touch and Mini, Kindle 4NT	Kobo Wifi severely slowed down recently Buddy at work has a Kobo Wifi that has slowed to a crawl. Turning a page takes about 15 seconds, which is about 14.5 seconds slower than last week. It happens with any book, even the built-in User Guide, so it's not a malformed EPUB issue. Even the power button behaves sluggishly; the unit turns off before the screen actually clears. I did a complete factory reset, which did not improve anything at all. I later installed the wifi telnet hack to look under the hood and everything looks good. No extra processes, CPU load is negligible, RAM usage is normal, compared to my working wifi. No slowdowns in command line telnet response when waiting for the page to change, so it doesn't look like a CPU problem. It looks like the display itself has slowed down like molasses in the Arctic! Any ideas? Thanks in advance.