Thread: Firmware 3.2.0
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Old 03-12-2014, 07:37 PM   #188
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Nascarfan1972 View Post
It is also extremely slow at starting up, with 1300+ books on both the internal and a 16gb sd card the glo is taking 14+ mins from being switched on until it is ready to use.
I have about 1900 books on my Glo. It is starting in less than two minutes. There are about 1200 books on the SD card. Most are epubs but there are about 80 purchase kepubs.
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Incidentally the books are taking up 5.19gb of space and are all kepubs.
That's a lot of space taken by those books. My 1900 are taking little more than 1GB. Is there anything unusual about them?
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This is happening on both of my glo's and my aura, they used to be ready to use in less than 2 mins with the same amount of books on them.

I would gratefully love any suggestions of speeding them up without removing the books from them.
What happens during those 14 minutes? Is the book processing screen displayed? Or is it sitting on the dancing squares screen? What happens if you take the SD card out before turning it on? You can insert the card after the device reaches the home screen.

Can you have a look at the database on the device? How big is it? And can you run a check on it? If you are using calibre and my Kobo Utilities plugin, it has a database check option. Otherwise, any SQLite browsing tool will be able to do it.
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Also at least one of the glo's is now dropping 4% battery every time I start it up.
That's probably caused by the 14 minute start up. There is probably a lot of CPU or disk access during that time.
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