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biteme · 02-17-2015, 05:27 AM

I had some freezes with my Touch Glo. I pulled it apart and found that Kobo had switched from branded Sandisk micro SD memory cards, as used in the previous year's non-Glo Touch, to unbranded cards.

I deleted all the books from the unbranded 2GB OEM card, cloned that card to a 4GB Sandisk card that I had taken out of a phone, expanded the data partition, put it all back together, put the books back on, and never had another freeze.

If the device had continued to freeze I would have wiped the Sandisk card and obtained a factory ROM from somewhere. Thankfully, that wasn't necessary.

I have found that that most problems with SD card based devices are fixed by replacing whatever junk OEM SD card has been installed at the factory with a genuine Sandisk card. Don't buy them over the internet, go to a reputable store. There are a lot of fakes around. Don't bother with an ultra fast one, a class 4 is just fine. We're talking about tiny operating system and ePub files that have been split to <260mb, not 5+GB photos.

Pulling apart a Touch Glo is not for the faint hearted as the Glo's case tolerances are a lot tighter than the basic Touch. If you are risk averse and it is still under warranty take it back to your supplier.

I really hope that I don't have this issue with the H2O is even harder to pull apart. So far, so good...

02-17-2015, 05:27 AM	#11
biteme Member Posts: 15 Karma: 140426 Join Date: Feb 2015 Device: Kobo Aura H20	I had some freezes with my Touch Glo. I pulled it apart and found that Kobo had switched from branded Sandisk micro SD memory cards, as used in the previous year's non-Glo Touch, to unbranded cards. I deleted all the books from the unbranded 2GB OEM card, cloned that card to a 4GB Sandisk card that I had taken out of a phone, expanded the data partition, put it all back together, put the books back on, and never had another freeze. If the device had continued to freeze I would have wiped the Sandisk card and obtained a factory ROM from somewhere. Thankfully, that wasn't necessary. I have found that that most problems with SD card based devices are fixed by replacing whatever junk OEM SD card has been installed at the factory with a genuine Sandisk card. Don't buy them over the internet, go to a reputable store. There are a lot of fakes around. Don't bother with an ultra fast one, a class 4 is just fine. We're talking about tiny operating system and ePub files that have been split to <260mb, not 5+GB photos. Pulling apart a Touch Glo is not for the faint hearted as the Glo's case tolerances are a lot tighter than the basic Touch. If you are risk averse and it is still under warranty take it back to your supplier. I really hope that I don't have this issue with the H2O is even harder to pull apart. So far, so good... Last edited by biteme; 02-17-2015 at 05:33 AM.