Thanks for the help, here are some more answers.
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Originally Posted by GeoffR
The old deviice was still on 3.19.5613 for some reason, but I assume the new device would be on the latest version 3.19.5761?
If so then you might try downgrading to 3.19.5613, restoring the backup from the old device, and then allowing the device to upgrade to 3.19.5761.
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I don't actually have a list of when the various firmware updates came out, but the old device was using the most recent firmware as of March, and I got the new device shipped on May 3rd. I don't recall the notification of an updated Kobo Utilities plugin in that time (it just happened in the past two weeks, right?) so I assumed they were both on 3.19.5613. The DB restore did eventually work on that version, for weeks, until I allowed the device to upgrade to the latest version which immediately broke it.
Unless there is a way to transfer reading positions to a new database (I'd survive losing my annotations), it sounds like a firmware downgrade and reattempting the DB copy is my best approach. Does this require cracking open the case?
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Originally Posted by PeterT
Was your device registered with Kobo or had you bypassed it by inserting data into the database?
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The original device was registered normally. The replacement was registered with Kobo at one point, but was only working after I reset the device and replaced the entire DB with that from the original, so I suppose that means bypassed. In retrospect it was pretty dumb of me to update the firmware at all, I should have just been happy with the working setup I had.
I'll also download an sqlite tool and start poking around the DB.