Thread: Aura H2O Kobo Aura H2O is not waterproof...
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Old 05-27-2015, 04:26 PM   #40
Boruteczko
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Device: Kobo Touch
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Originally Posted by BWinmill View Post
It's probably best to create your own thread for this, and describe the symptoms so that someone can help you figure out what is going on. For example, does it reset on the home screen or while reading? If it happens while reading: does it happen with a particular book, or ePubs, or kePubs?

As for this user's experience: I have had my H2O freeze up a couple of times and a corrupt database the other day (likely induced by calibre), but it has been reliable otherwise.
What is your firmware version? Do you have any patches installed?
For the moment I don't know if creating another thread would be useful, because of really inconsistent symptoms.


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Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man View Post
That's not how IP codes work. A rating of 7 is not necessarily better than 6.

IP66 means "No ingress of dust; complete protection against contact (dust tight)" and "Water projected in powerful jets (12.5 mm nozzle) against the enclosure from any direction shall have no harmful effects."

IP67 means "No ingress of dust; complete protection against contact (dust tight)" and "Ingress of water in harmful quantity shall not be possible when the enclosure is immersed in water under defined conditions of pressure and time (up to 1 m of submersion)." (Emphasis mine.)

According to the Kobo website, the H20 is designed to withstand immersion "for up to 30 minutes in up to 1 meter of water with port cover closed". It says nothing about high pressure situations like immersion in moving water or placing your device under a running tap (and, no, dropping an H20 in a bathtub or spilling a drink on it does not qualify as "moving water" in this context). And according to the IP ratings, it is only designed to prevent ingress of a "harmful quantity" of water, and unless the OP's device has started to malfunction from the few drops that managed to get underneath the USB cover, it seems to me that his H20 is working as intended.

So my advice to the OP is to stop placing your H20 under a running tap, because that's not what it's designed for. Have you contacted Kobo? What did they say?
I didn't contact them yet. Either way it was very weak tap flow every time and without flipping it upside down, hence any pressure would be really negligible?
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