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Originally Posted by davidfor
PM sent. But, for my curiosity...
How did you do that? The only way to brick the device when installing firmware should be if the wrong uboot or kernel get installed. And the upgrade code has checks for this. This is relatively new, so installing older firmware, or the wrong one after a factory reset might not include the checks.
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It's my mother's Kobo Touch (I have an Aura) and with the latest firmware (3.19... etc) it began to freeze once a week. Maybe a factory reset could be the solution, by the way I remembered that it ran more smoothly with the older firmwares, so i downloaded the 2.6.1... for the N905/B! I was pretty sure it was the first model of Touch, so I didn't check on the bottom of the device.
I was wrong, it's a N905C.
And yes, I did a factory reset (as suggested on the download page) before flashing the older firmware. The perfect storm.
So the Touch accepted and wrote the update, but then freezed on the update page.
I tried also the method of copying directly in the .kobo folder on the internal sd card the right firmware update (as suggested on page 3 of this thread), but didn't work for me: the led went on blinking green for ages, but nothing happened on the screen, so I shut off the device.
It's the first time I brick a device (for lazyness) in years of honorable career
I'm really gettin' old
EDIT: image successfully flashed on the internal sd card, Touch resurrected :-) No problem with the serial, too. Thanks a lot!!!