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Originally Posted by PeterT
Something I'm not at all sure I understand is the number of people who brick their devices.
What is so hard about downloading the correct file and placing it on their device?
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It's not the downloading the correct file and placing it on the device that seems to cause most of the problems. I been surprised by the number of people who have managed to brick their Kobos by damaging the two Linux partitions that are not exposed during a normal USB connection, making a factory reset impossible.
Some possibilities that come to mind would be removing the uSD card and accessing it outside the ereader, using a console connection (telnet, etc.) to access the Linux filesystem, installing a firmware version that does not support the device as one person who installed an old Touch only firmware version on an Aura HD.
Regards,
David
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Rick Cook