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Hi all,
I'm a not so happy user of kobo glo (from FNAC in France) so far. The device seems very nice, and out of the box it read epub and cbz, that that's for the good points, with a good screen and integrated light. However, I've had a lot of stability problems with my device, so I'd like to find out if it's my hardware of maybe software related.
I really don;t like the principle that you have to register to be able to use the device, anyway I did register since there was no choice, then it also upgrades the firmware and gives the user no choice to refuse the upgrade.
That was about a month ago. I installed a few ebooks (epub) and manga (cbz format), the interface is fine, but quite randomly , the device seems to lock up, in this case I have to use a pin and do a manual reset. I finally decided to do a factory reset, thinking that maybe Calibre somehow corrupted the sqlite database (now I set calibre in such a way that it doesn't try to modify this db). At first it seemed to have solved my stabilities issue, but recently another one came : once in a while, after I've turned off the device and let it for a night , I'll find that I can't turn it on anymore, and most of the time the battery is simply empty. It looks like the device actually didn;t go in suspend mode when I turned it off, so it used off the battery during the night (but the screen did display the picture normally displayed when it;s off though, so it;s as if everything went OK except the last step that put the device in suspend)
After this happened several times , which was really annoying, since the device cannot be used for a while after that (need to be recharged), I decided to do again a factory reset, and this time I did a fake register (following instructions from Antoine Amirilli's blog), this allowed me to bypass also the initial firmware upgrade. So I'll see what happens with a non upgraded firmware (the one from factory reset is 2.1.7, I don;t know what was the version after initial upgrade, I didn;t take note of that)
Sorry for the long post, I'd just liked to know if these symptoms are usual or not. Is Kobo Glo nornally a stable device ? Is the software supposed to be reliable ?
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