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Hello!
Davidfor, sorry to have bothered you.
I just stumbled on this nearly secret external SD-card update for the first Kobo. Canada only, no image to find. Strange and interesting ;-
The Touch uses some kind of linux (resp. Android) in the underwear, as the early Kobo already did. Of course chipset and firmware are completely different. So my idea was just to see how the card was prepared to boot from, and if a Touch also tries to do something with the card, I would of course replace the fw files by Touch Mk3 ones.
It might have been that no one ever had tried what happens when inserting this bootable external SD-card in a Touch (no availabiliy of card, don't want to brick the device). But If this was done, it's fine. Hast hadn't found a hint on trying this.
I wonder why Rakuten has not implemented it to the Touch as well. They should have needed it for development and service of a messed up device, I think. Of course not officially supported (as the canadian mystery card).
But maybe that's why they had changed to a removable internal SD-card at 905B and 905C.
By the way, FW 1.9.17 allows you to skip the registration. Maybe that's enough when you can load the books by USB. But when you insert a SD-card with ebooks, it gives you a popup telling you first need to register. Also wifi search is not possible then ;-)
Bye,
Michael
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