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Originally Posted by t.kruse
Hi,
I have the same problem on my Kobo Aura HD ever since it updated from 2.5.2 to 2.6.1.
basically whenever I insert my SD Card (Samsung, 2GB), with any books on it (I tried .cbz and .epubs each in isolation), then booting the device or just inserting the SD card takes a crazy amount of time. Booting could take 30 MINUTES and more, though actual boot times varied between 5 minutes and 50 minutes or so (All this with Wifi off). While booting, only the last two dots remained black, so it looked like booting was frozen.
The effect can well be observed even with just 5 epubs ( 5 MB in total) on the SD card.
Without SD card, all is fine (booting in 3-10 seconds). I only used an SD card because I took books for travelling and also some comic series, and the comic series would not fit on main storage memory. Outside holidays and comics, probably nobody needs to use an SD card in the Kobo.
I tried reformatting the SDCard from VFat to FAT32, and it did not help. For this seems to have only be introduced with 2.6.1, though I cannot be 100% sure.
Reading the books from the SDcard works fine.
Since there was also crazy variation over the booting times, at the time I thought that maybe the device scans for Wifi networks and attempts to connect (even if Wifi is off in settings), such that in areas with more wifi networks, it would take longer. But that was just some blind guess.
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It happened for me from the first day I got my Aura in April, and happened more often.
Helen