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Originally Posted by rtiangha
Well, unless those models are discontinued, it's the only explanation that I can think of as to why there isn't a single Kobo reader in any brick-and-mortar store in my city at the moment, even though the displays are still up. But whatever. I secured my Glo HD before they all mysteriously disappeared. I'm happy.
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As I stated above, the factory recall isn't needed. If you factory reset these devices, they have no problem connecting to the bad version of Windows. After the devices are updated to later firmware and actually used, the problem starts happening. It is cause by how the firmware is tracking if it has successfully restarted.
But, the recall isn't needed because:
- Kobo have fixed the problem as of firmware 4.0. Upgrade over WiFi or using a PC that doesn't have the bad version of Windows will solve it for all. At worst, do a factory reset followed by the updated.
- MS have released an update that solves the problem for the Kobo ereaders. Updating to that will solve the problem without changing the device.
What that means is that there are reasonable ways around the problem. And that as MS makes it hard not to install fixes, the number of people actually affected by this problem is small and decreasing all the time.