Thread: Glo Kobo Glo: Need SD card image
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Old 07-06-2015, 07:06 AM   #405
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Chicca View Post
Dear davidfor,

thank you very much!

While trying to fix my Kobo Glo, after a soft reset (paperclip method), I tried two different factory reset:

1) with the proper button combination (light+switch button)
This only works if the device is off. And the battery needs to be charged. The steps I give re:

- Charge the device for an hour or so.
- Hold the power slider in the off position for about 20 seconds. This is to ensure it is off.
- Hold the light button down and turn it on.
- Release the light button when the LED starts to flash.

If it doesn't work the first time, try it again with a little more time at each step.
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2) deleting all files in rootfs and "untarring" file fs.tgz from the recoveryfs partition to the rootfs partition.

Is the second solution wrong? Could you please point out the correct procedure?
It might work depending on what is actually wrong. But the factory reset the device does formats the root and data partitions, write the uboot and uImage files to appropriate places on the disk using dd and then unpacks the fs.tgz to the root partition. So, if the problem is that the root partition has somehow lost some files, what you did could work. But, it sounds like it didn't.

At this point, I suspect you are going to have to restore the image.
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