Thread: Firmware 4.1.7729
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Old 10-14-2016, 10:23 PM   #102
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Zaroff View Post
I see what you're getting at, indeed flashing firmware can fail, but I let it be known to them that it correctly installed, and it did, since the version is correct, and finished books do now work in the reading progress stats.

I'll see what it gives with a reset, before deciding to let it go.
There is enough going on in the firmware installation that something could go wrong that meant most of it was done, but something was left behind. Don't ask me what, it's just over the years of, there has been some strange post-update behaviour that needs something else to be done. The things I have tried and suggest when this happens are:

- Manually install the update again.

- Sign-out and back. This resets a lot of things. It rebuilds the database, configuration and other things. This includes configuration on the hidden root partition. One of those is the WiFi setup. Anyone having problems with WiFi SSIDs being forgotten, the sign-out should help.

- A factory reset. It shouldn't be needed, but, it can solve things.

You mention the database backup that the Kobo Utilities plugin can do. I wouldn't recommend restoring that in ether of the latter cases. I think starting fresh is a good idea. But, if you have put a lot of books on the device, what I suggest is taking a copy of everything on the book partition. If nothing above works, then you can restore this and get back to the state you were in before starting.

Kobo do know there are still battery use issues being reported and are working on them. I don't know if they expected this update to solve everything, but the smart thing would be to plan on fixing the biggest and most obvious problems and then do another pass fixing the less obvious problems or those hidden by the ones just fixed.
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