Thread: Glo MicroSD issues with glo
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Old 12-21-2013, 01:55 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by aliettedb View Post
I've owned a Glo for about a year now, and I've started having odd problems with the microSD I use to store my books. Whenever I turn the Glo on, it gives me a "Can't recognize your SD card. Format to FAT32 & try again."
It then is able to read the contents of the SD--sort of: it takes ages and the Kobo freezes whenever I try to navigate more than a page at a time in a book, and sometimes it misses half the catalog (I have about 1000 books on it)
That's in spite of the SD card being formatted properly to FAT32 (I checked, it's not the SD contents--I reformatted it to empty FAT32 and I still get the same error message). I've tried resetting the Kobo to factory settings, updating to the latest firmware, but neither has worked.
Has anyone had this issue before? I'm inclined to think it's a Kobo issue (as opposed to an SD one), possibly with the microSD port itself, but I could be wrong...

Thanks in advance!
This seems to be a common theme introduced a few firmwares ago. The result is I only place my Aura Hd in sleep mode. My Fathers touch has the same issue and is placed in sleep mode as well. Formating it will usually result in nothing changing. If you do format before you do try the card in a card reader and see if you have the same issue. There are however some known issues with cheap cards, the best results can be achieved by sticking to the native sandisk micro sd cards that Kobo has adopted as memory on the main board either as removable memory or soldered to the board memory.

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