Hey guys,
I don't know what to do. I was reading a book, trying to turn a page while suddenly the screen froze. Nothing worked anymore. Holding every button for a long time did nothing but make the screen go white, not responding anymore. I then let it charge overnight and tried to reset (tiny hole on bottom) it in the morning without any luck.
The symptoms are:
- Turn on device
- White LED turns on
- Screen flashes White/Black/White/Black/White
- LED flashes 3 times, LED turns off, sometimes LED stays on
- Screen stays white nothing happens
What I tried:
- Holding every button in every possible combination for about up to 1 minute and shorter
- Resetting again
- Charging again, this time ~2days
- Connecting via USB, nothing happens
Note:
- After the first reset and letting it charge for the first time over night (~8h) the soft reset (light button + power on button long press together) seemed to work, I saw the "Resetting device, please wait" screen for a couple of seconds before it froze again, so the display is fine I think, after that the white screen returned
The device:
- Got it July 2013
- Updated firmware
- Installed Kobo privacy thing so that it doesn't talks home (host stuff)
- Installed Kobo nightmode
- Uploaded my ebook collection via Calibre
- Never connected it via USB again (no updates, no further installations)
- Never connected to anything via Wifi again
Anyone got any idea I could try before throwing it away?
Cheers,
Vax