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lopta · 08-09-2014, 11:50 PM

My poor Kobo WiFi (N289) won't boot after I tried to format it. If I press the power button the blue light blinks and the seven little squares in the bottom, right-hand corner of the screen march endlessly. If I hold the Menu button while I power it on, it says "Initialising USB partition" and then "Please Connect Your eReader to USB". If I do that, it looks as though I can mount a 200M partition with an empty folder called .kobo_upgrade. My guess is that it would like to be fed a firmware image. I tried installing the Kobo Desktop app on my wife's PC but it won't even launch because Windows says it's not a valid 32-bit app. I'm comfortable with dd and can find an SD card if that will help. Is firmware available somewhere for my Kobo?

08-09-2014, 11:50 PM	#951
lopta Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2014 Device: Kobo WiFi	My poor Kobo WiFi (N289) won't boot after I tried to format it. If I press the power button the blue light blinks and the seven little squares in the bottom, right-hand corner of the screen march endlessly. If I hold the Menu button while I power it on, it says "Initialising USB partition" and then "Please Connect Your eReader to USB". If I do that, it looks as though I can mount a 200M partition with an empty folder called .kobo_upgrade. My guess is that it would like to be fed a firmware image. I tried installing the Kobo Desktop app on my wife's PC but it won't even launch because Windows says it's not a valid 32-bit app. I'm comfortable with dd and can find an SD card if that will help. Is firmware available somewhere for my Kobo?