Thread: Kobo Aura non-HD sd-img
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Old 11-02-2015, 01:22 AM   #9
davidfor
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Originally Posted by F0ggy View Post
I used USB Duplicator Image Creator to make a .img before this round of mods.
You made an image of all the memory of the Aura? How? This sounds like something that you use when the device is connected to a PC via USB. If so, only the user partition is presented to the PC, and that would be all I would expect to be in the image.
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Any ideas if I could write that .img back to the Kobo with USB Duplicator Image Writer safely? Or would it fail part way thru as it is overwriting files that are being used seeing as it is being transferred while Nickle is running?
If you have a full image, then Magic Memory Upgrade Mod might be a starting point. It is copying the current internal card to RAM, and then rewriting it after the card has been replaced. It should be possible to modify this to read an image from the SD card and write it to the internal memory. But, the risk is very high. If something goes wrong, the Aura would almost definitely be bricked beyond recovery.

Also, I had forgotten about that mod. With it, as it can write from the internal card to the external card, it should be possible to use this to create a backup of the internal memory of an Aura. Of course, restoring it will be the real problem.

And as frostschutz suggested, if you can use the supplied version of Linux, you will be a lot safer. If you can, you would probably be able to use KSM to start the XCSoar application and skip starting nickel.
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