Thread: Glo Firmware 2.1.5
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Old 10-19-2012, 04:27 AM   #63
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Originally Posted by jusmee View Post
You are right. The point, that others seem to have missed (or chosen to ignore ), is that, even "side-loaded" upgrades should check that they are installing on the correct device before proceeding.
I agree.

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Originally Posted by murg View Post
Sorry, but if you guys aren't even doing the very basic checks involved in determining that the firmware is for the right device. This is a design defect and probably a manufacturing defect as well.

You are operating in an international arena, the consumer protection laws are different in every country. I'm sure that at least one of these countries will find that the design of the firmware update management is a defect. And imagine the PR disaster if your devices are found to have a defective design. People (and by this I mean the press) doesn't really distinguish between firmware and hardware.

Nothing a user does on the user accessible side of the Kobo should result in a broken device. Needing-to-be factory reset is barely acceptable, but broken is completely unacceptable.

If someone goes playing around on the internal side of the device, then they are on their own.

There was also no warning from Kobo that this behaviour would lead to a broken device. There is a big difference between 'incompatible' and 'broken'.
Yep. If something were to break the device, it should not be so easy to do. If it is easy, and you know how easily we can all get the firmware zips because you're aware of this forum, you should build in a safety. Upon restart, the device should check what it's getting to upgrade to, and just simply tell you "Sorry, I don't like this firmware. I'm going to stick with what I have."

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Originally Posted by jusmee View Post
A question, if the update file is for Touch only, why name it kobo-update-2.1.5.zip and not something sensible like kobo-touch-update-2.1.5.zip ??
Very good question!!

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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
Probably for the simple reason we the end-users are not meant to be aware of the file location ..
Yeah, well, if we shouldn't be aware of it, it should be more properly hidden.
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