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Old 08-16-2015, 06:04 AM   #1412
Lucas Malor
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
sickel is a new watchdog program added into the newest f/w builds. It checks that the device is not hung by waiting for a regular heartbeat from nickel (the reader program), and if the heartbeat is not received, rebooting the Kobo.
Mh. This does not seems to me a good design. nickel should respond to sickel but you should anyway be unable to interact with it for other reasons. IMHO the best solution is to add a way to do an hardware reboot instead (for example, pressing the pin hole for a little time).
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