Thread: Bypassing registration in 3.19+
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Old 02-18-2016, 08:36 PM   #5
davidfor
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Originally Posted by ero-sennin View Post
Thanks, found the discussion in the 3.19.5613 thread. Still no solution though.
That's the first post and there is a lot more discussion in that thread about this, plus in other threads. In that thread there is at least one report of it work, but with no details. But, I have a vague memory that the workaround was to press the x in the top right corner of the dailog rather than pressing OK or whatever button is displayed. That closes the dialog without triggering the reset.
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Well, I'm just uncomfortable with having to ask Kobo's permission to use my own legally purchased device. What if Kobo goes bankrupt and shuts down their servers, or they just decide not to support my device anymore, or something like that.
If that happens, you won't be worried about upgrading the firmware because there won't be any upgrades available.

But, as you really mean you won't be able to do a factory reset and upgrade to your stored copy of the firmware, that's easy to solve. Register with a fake email address and take a copy of the details. Then use these values when setting up the device.
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