Thread: Glo Glo help please!
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Old 03-08-2013, 05:17 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by jackastor View Post
I think there is a very different way the Kobo Devices handle a reset and a power off and then on. The power off I think just leaves things in the Static memory of the device and the Reset would flush the same cache memory. Which would be why the result is cleaner then a power cycle.
As far as I know the only reason for doing a PIN reset is if the device is hung in a non responsive state.

The power off / power on and the post pin state both reboot the Kobo, relaunching the Kobo Linux kernel from the internal storage, and loading all code / data from the same storage.
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