Thread: New Kobo Problems
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Old 12-02-2014, 01:22 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
More recent firmware versions use some hardware features that the earlier firmware versions didn't, so if the device had a hardware fault affecting a feature used only by the newer firmware, the device might still work okay with old firmware.

One example I know of is the 'Thumb" instruction set, which is available on all the current Kobo e-ink devices, but maybe not on the very early models. Up until version 2.4.0 the firmware didn't make use of thumb instructions, so if there was a CPU fault in the thumb circuitry then it might not affect the device. But some time after 2.4.0 (2.5.0 I think) the firmware began being compiled to make use of thumb instructions, so such a fault could show up then.
I don't know what the "Thumb" instruction set is, but in this case it seems to me that the freezing is more of a long delay than a freezing. That's why I was thinking it was more of a memory problem.

The symptoms of my touch were that it would freeze, then after a few minutes respond to the string of input instructions I had given it (i.e. page turn forward or backward for each screen tap I did. Add/remove bookmarks ..... etc.).
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