Thread: Touch Fw. 2.5.2 SD-card issue
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Old 09-23-2013, 05:37 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Leonatus View Post
I did not find this issue in another thread:

My Kobo Touch (N905) behaves strangely with books on the SD-card.
  • After booting, home screen appears, mostly including the books on SDcard.
  • Opening a book, reading is possible some 2, 3 ... pages, but then (at tipping to change page) it will inevitably close and return to home screen.
  • Sometimes, a popup opens with a note that I had removed the SD-card (which is not true), sometimes the book simply closes and returns to home screen.
  • The home screen now doesn't show the books on SD-card any more, and I have to remove/insert the SD-card several times until the device condescends to recognise its content.

I made several tests and noticed that this behaviour does not depend
  • whether the book that I'm reading is actually stored on the SD-card itself or on the device (i. e. the breakdown comes as soon as the SD-card is inserted and there are any books - epubs or kepubs - stored on it).
  • whether the book that I'm actually reading is a kepub or an epub.
  • on the kind of SD-card (I tried several brands)
It seems likely that a book is soemwhat corrupt, but the device behaves like that, even if there is only one single book on the SD-card (that has been checked with Sigil's Flight Crew, W3C, EpubChecker). Moreover, when I push (via ADE) the book onto the device, it reads properly, under condition that there is no other book on the SD-card.

Thus, proper reading is only possible
  • if the SD-card is entirely removed (reading a book stored on the device itself)
  • or if the SD-card is completely empty.

I'm in the lucky (?) situation that I could compare two Touch N905 models under Fw. 2.5.2 (the one that I formerly possessed having been exchanged during the warranty for other reasons), and the one that I first owned showed the same behaviour as soon as the firmware had been updated to 2.6.1; before, it worked without problems. The new one had to be synchronised at the Kobo desktop first, and then, only the firmware 2.5.2 was uploaded.

Well, I can use the reader without SD-card, but if there is this feature included, it should work somehow. Kobo says that there must be a book corrupted, but this can, after my tests, hardly be the case. It's, moreover, little probable that only one broken book anywhere on the SD-card causes the constant crash of the system.

Am I the only one to suffer from this?
No your not the only one to suffer this problem. I got so fed up with my Kobo Touch behaving as you have described that it went in the trash can and I replaced it with a Kobo Mini. I have found the Mini on firmware 2.8.1 to be excellent and am now thinking about getting a Kobo Glo.
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