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Old 08-17-2013, 01:04 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
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?
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.

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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
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