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Old 05-04-2014, 08:13 AM   #1
Artishell
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Device: Kobo Glo
Exclamation YetAnotherHelpmeThread KoboGlo (Mondadori) Brick

[TL-DR at the end]
Hi everybody,
I know I'm a new user on this community and I'm sorry that my first thread will suck as hard as this one is going to. I've lurked in the "Guests" counter for roughly 2 years and registered only today since, as the title suggests, my father in law's Kobo Glo bricked. -I'm a lame person, I know-

Symptoms:
Screen is frozen like this since two weeks
and it does not change whatever I do.
Here's a video of the behaviour [you'll notice the back of the device is missing, it's irrelevant, but I'll explain why in the post]
http://vimeo.com/fisiofede/koboglobrick
If I try to turn it on (or off, since I don't know where I'm starting) the small LED near the slider glows blue for 10 / 12 seconds, then vanishes.
If I try to hard reset it, nothing changes [I've tried everything I found on the forum and on maaany blogs online, hold the light button and flick the slider, hold the slider, hold the light button and release the slider, hold the slider and hit the reset button with a paperclip, hold the reset button and and flick the light button while wondering what the F it means to "flick a button" and any combination thereof] I tried installing Android on the wretched thing and nothing works. I even tried opening the device, pulling the µSD from it, mounting it on a linux box, and restoring the FS partition from the files found in the rescue partition.
NOTHING.

The only thing I didn't try yet is flashing another Image on the SD card, (since I don't have one: the old man never does safety backups with new items unless they're already broken, no matter how many times you tell him to) SO

TL-DR
As a last resource, I'd need a kind soul to allow me to download their kobo Glo .img, that I'll then dd on the µSD card


Thanks a Lot Folks

Last edited by Artishell; 05-04-2014 at 08:18 AM. Reason: video not displaying correctly
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