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Originally Posted by Stulle
It looks like fw 1.9.x really didn't ask if it should connect to PC or not. These Kobos didn't ask what to do when connected to a USB charger (2.x and 3.0.x did ask), and I had just one of these Kobos which succesfully get USB connection to the computer (worked after replacing battery, because the original was dead). It also didn't ask if it should connect, Kobo desktop then quickly updated it from 1.9.17 to 3.0.18. Works fine now.
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Hmm, I would have sworn that the 1.9.x firmware prompted when you plugged it in. But, the only time I see it is the few moments after factory resetting one of my Touches.
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I think factory reset worked fine, as LED first blinks red, then quickly flashes blue/white, shows the restoring screen with rotating hourglass and so on. After this it starts with language selection and wants to launch registration via Kobo Desktop.
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This should be back to 1.9.11 or 1.9.12. There is an option with these firmware versions to skip setup. From memory, it isn't immediately obvious, I think you have to cancel or close a window at some point. What I don't remember is if you can setup WiFi from there. But, it will read the SD card.
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I tried from setup menu, but also holding home button while connecting the battery.
About the restoring mechanism via SD-card: In fact I easily found it here (was originally for earlier Kobo reader). It has proved to work for this other reader, it looks like is was just sent as a physically SD card by Rakuten/Kobo itself. Some people asked for an image, but it was never posted. Unfortunately the thread stopped 5 years ago.
Even if it is for another model: The Kobo Touch started in the same era. As it it also was a reader with fixed flash (no internal removable SD-card, this first came with 905B) it might also react to the same mechanism.
If it's just starting to boot from an external card, it might be possible to change the firmware to the newer ones.
It's worth a try as these units are somehow bricked anyway.
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Except of course they are different devices, with different internal hardware, running very different versions of the firmware. The loading of firmware from the SD card was stopped a long time before the Touch was produced. There is no support in the factory firmware on the Touch or any later device for doing this.
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I'm not sure about how many old N905s are out there, most threads care about 905B and C, so that's why I think it's worth asking...
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My problem with your post, and why I might have sounded a bit snarky, was that it seemed to imply that if there was a solution, we wouldn't be discussing it. We would. Even if it needed extra hardware it would be discussed, or at least referred to each time one of these requests came along. There is more discussion about the N905B and N905C because they can be fixed. If you look through the image requests threads, there are enough posts with requests for an N905 image followed by a "Sorry, can't do" response, that anyone searching and reading the results should quickly find out what was happening. And still people keep asking.
Having said that, for full disclosure, I should say that there is a way. There is a way to write the internal storage to an SD card and later restore from the card. But, it requires you getting into the device and changing the firmware. And that means connecting to a PC and putting a file on the device that will be processed when the device is connected. So, yes you can do it. But, if you can't connect to the PC, you can't do it.