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Originally Posted by TechniSol
Not to be impolitic, but if you're expecting a Kobo reader to work as you'd expect on the minor points you are in for a world of hurt based on past performance. You end up trading one broken thing for another firmware to firmware, but for me it's been best to just stay current and put up with the latest set of bugaboos. At least you can sync the reader without tearing your hair out. Usually. For the most part, mostly... Uh, you know what I mean.
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Yeah, my husband says the same thing. At least you're not yelling it at me, lol!
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Looking at the image, there is a "KoboRoot.tgz". That is the application side of the firmware. I stated before that the latest firmware versions for the Touch do not have all the files. If you want to go back to 2.4.0, at the point where you took that image, you remove that "KoboRoot.tgz" and put all the files and folders from the 2.4.0 Touch firmware package.
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Yes, but when I did that before - adding the "Update" folder and the "manifest.md5sum", overwriting the "KoboRoot.tgz" file- it went into a perpetual powering on loop and never went anywhere else. After 20 minutes of trying the paperclip/home button restore it *finally* responded to that and rolled back to 1.9.6. So I'm hesitant to try that again. Unless you mean to roll back to 1.9.6, overlay 2.4.0, let it update the reader (I have no idea how for that will get as I'd have to log into my account and then it would shove the new firmware on anyway), extract those files, roll back again to 1.9.6, install newest firmware, then replace ALL the files with 2.4.0?
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Yes, that is a problem in the recent firmware on the Touch. Eject the card and insert it again and all the books will be seen.
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Okay, so it's not just me then.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
I don't remember there being a problem with covers in 3.0.1. What is being displayed?
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When I put the reader to sleep, or power it off, the cover is a blank space with the title and the author written on it - like it couldn't create the image with the book cover picture. I noticed that on the previous version of the firmware I had before rolling back to 2.4.0. It's not a huge deal, but it's annoying.
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Originally Posted by jackastor
VirgoGirl you may have to signout of your kobo account on the reader to rebuild the database, My stepmother had a similar issue with wrong covers and it was due to a corrupt database. Funny thing was Calibre said the data base was fine, it wasn't, after rebuilding it everything was fine. But she did loose her stats. I did not back them up because I am unsure if we would be backing up corrupt info or good info. Not knowing I chose to not backup.
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It's not so much the WRONG cover as the image is just not being built properly.
I've toyed with the idea of using the direct internal memory, the only 2 reasons I have for NOT doing that are 1) I have a the books safe on a separate card in case I have to reformat or the Kobo eats them (happened once before, they just disappeared off the internal memory) and 2) if there is a problem with a book not being formatted properly and the Kobo gets stuck in a processing loop. Also happened ("Snow White and the Huntsman"
), so I removed the card, removed the book, reinserted the card and it was fine.
I'm looking harder into the SQLlite database editor, that may just solve my issue if I can go from 1.9.6 directly to 2.4.0. I can re add my 4 pages of collections, no problem.
Still dragging my feet regarding the Kindle.... My husband doesn't think it'll solve my problems as I like to have around 1300 ebooks on my reader.