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davidfor · 08-12-2014, 09:31 PM

The stats for all books are in the database on the device. If you take a copy of the database from the old device, you could restore that to the new device. I'm not sure if it would work as I can't think if there is a specific key anywhere. But, you could extract the Event table data and restore that to the database on the device. That should work, but I haven't tried it.

I have done what Ripplinger suggests, but only to the same device. By that I mean I copied the user partition from the device, did a factory reset and played with some older firmware. Then I upgraded to the firmware I had been using and restored the data that I had copied. That worked. It might work for a different device, but I am not sure.

Hmm, I just checked the database backups from two different Glo's I have that are logged into the same account. There is a difference in the "UserKey" column of the table "user". Extracting this data from the new device, restoring the data from the old device as above and then restoring this data to the new device should work. A bit of a pain, but it should get you there.

08-12-2014, 09:31 PM	#6
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	The stats for all books are in the database on the device. If you take a copy of the database from the old device, you could restore that to the new device. I'm not sure if it would work as I can't think if there is a specific key anywhere. But, you could extract the Event table data and restore that to the database on the device. That should work, but I haven't tried it. I have done what Ripplinger suggests, but only to the same device. By that I mean I copied the user partition from the device, did a factory reset and played with some older firmware. Then I upgraded to the firmware I had been using and restored the data that I had copied. That worked. It might work for a different device, but I am not sure. Hmm, I just checked the database backups from two different Glo's I have that are logged into the same account. There is a difference in the "UserKey" column of the table "user". Extracting this data from the new device, restoring the data from the old device as above and then restoring this data to the new device should work. A bit of a pain, but it should get you there.