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Originally Posted by robko
And before the conspiracy theories start that Kobo is trying to lock down the devices, the stated reason for this new functionality is so people don't have to physically reset if the device has an issue -- i.e. this is for the people complaining about what would happen if they didn't have paperclip with them to reset it with and it froze. As I understand it this is designed to automatically reboot the device if it runs into a problem. No idea if this is going to be an easy thing to get around for modding or not (I'll leave that to the experts  ). |
But I like the idea of the watchdog neither, i don't like some mechanism that restarts the device when it thinks something is wrong.
We all know Kobo does great work,but we all do now also that they introduce a lot of bugs, don't solve old ones always.
If there is something wrong with the guarddog software or something else triggers it,you end with a device in some kind of bootloop.
It is the same as the option in windows, in stead of showing the BSOD with some info, it restarts..
So I hope Kobo or someone that is making the patches is making an option to put it off.
In an ideal world,the mechanism would not be triggered unless there is really something wrong but Kobo's environment isn't always the most stable one.
If i want to reboot it I use a paperclip and if you don't have it there is always something else to use,with other words,I want to have the control for a reset, not the device itself.
With all respect, just build this because people forget the paperclip..whats next.. a timer that put it out because people forget to go to sleep ?? Or a build in charger because people forget their own ??
A Swiss knife perhaps ?