[franklekens]

My Aura HD freezes rather too often to my liking. Already twice this day.
It's not on sideloaded books or anything else weird. Just books I bought from Kobo & downloaded via wifi from the store, they're in internal memory, no sd card present.

Typically the device will freeze when I try to turn a page. Often it happens fairly soon after I've started it up.

What I don't get, is why it takes me so long to be able to reboot it (by holding the on/off key). It's almost like in Windows or an Android phone when some app has gone crazy, in a loop or something, and you can't get anything to respond anymore. But what is the device supposed to be doing? Nothing, surely. Just turning a page.
And why isn't there *some* way to force the reset to occur immediately. Because typically, for the first 5 or 10 minutes or so, however long I hold the on/off button, nothing happens. Yes, the light sometimes flashes on, and then goes off again. It doesn't blink, it just goes on for a while and then turns off again.
But usually I have to wait 5 or 10 minutes or so before I can restart the thing and continue to read. That's NOT a good thing for an ereader to do.

I read (in the "freezing after selecting bookmark" thread) that someone had heard from support that they have more reports of freezing, and that there's something wrong with FW 3.8. Is that true? They'd better come up with an update soon then. (And don't make us in Western Europe wait a few weeks before it's rolled out...)