Thread: Preventing upgrades
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Old 05-19-2015, 01:32 AM   #10
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby View Post
I said Kobo has added columns, over time with the firmware updates.
Yes, you did. But, the context of the thread is blocking firmware updates. And your response was to a post about changing the "phone home url". With that, I read your post as saying that you block the updates with the settings in the user table. As I have spent a lot of time looking at the database, I couldn't remember anything that was related to the firmware version, so I checked and didn't see anything. Hence my question to you.

For my curiosity, I did a test using my Touch. I set everything in the user table to zero (either the character, number or false) and did a sync. Watching the status, it showed "Checking for update". It didn't find anything as it already had the latest firmware available to it. Then it tried to do a sync. That didn't work, but it also didn't complete. So, I put an earlier firmware on, and this time it did download the latest. That says that the firmware checks are independent of the logged in user. Which does make sense as the device check for an update during setup before signing in.

If the OP is not needing to sync books, the simplest thing to do is to remove the sync tile from the home screen. That reduces the chance of accidentally hitting it and reclaims the space. If the OP needs to sync books, then the only choice is to patch the firmware to change the URL used for the firmware check.
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