[GustavoB]

Originally Posted by lekofraggle

Gustavo,
You seem to be on the right track. There may be a few steps missing.

In order to boot from the ad card, you need to make the Kobo acknowledge its existence before boot, and you need the boot loader.

First, just to check if you have those two things, boot the Kobo while holding the light button. Be sure you are holding the light button before the led on the top starts blinking.

If you do that a few times and do not get a boot, you have two more steps.

I do not have a link to the required files, but they are in the first post on this thread.

You need to modify your Kobo just a bit.

Grab the file that allows you to boot from an ad card, unzip it directly to the .Kobo directory on the actual device (you need to enable hidden files to find the folder on Windows Explorer).

Then, do the same as above with the boot loader. Better directions and the files are on the first post of this thread. Let me know if you are still confused or if it did not work.

~Leko

Thanks for the reply. Now I am trying to do the following:

The first thing you need to download the SD card image with Android for AuraHD, Glo, or Touch. To create a SD card from this image you need Flash Drive Image Writer and at least 8GB miсroSD card. You can use micro SD card up to 32GB, you only need to move the last two partitions to the end of the card and extend the first partition. After you create the card you'll need to delete the folder .kobo from the created SD card.

Now you are ready to install the patch that lets you run Android from the external SD. First we create a backup internal SD card. You need to install this patch (fix-udev-tgz.zip) (alt link), otherwise the device won't see the external card, which will be used to save the backup. Connect your device to your computer through USB and unzip fix-udev-tgz.zip to the folder named .kobo which is located on the device.

I've burned the image into the card - for future reference, I have 2 of them. The one that comes with Kobo (4GB) and one I bought (16GB). I've burned the image on the 16GB card. In the first bold text, he says to delete the .kobo folder. I've checked the 16GB card that has the android and it had no .kobo folder. So I presumed I should erase the one in the 4GB card. I did it, but in the second bold text, he says I should put the file in the .kobo folder, but I deleted it. I'm a little lost on this.

I'll try it again in a while, I just had to format the 4GB card because I had a shortcut virus in it and it was annoying to access the folders. But it's fixed now.