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Old 01-05-2017, 06:26 PM   #989
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Bleh, the KA1 in factory default settings (as purchased in September 2016) is a nuisance to setup under Windows 10 build 1607. It seems to suffer from the Win10 USB-bug.

I can get the KA1 to be recognized on the first connect only. If I then eject it, Windows will then always complain about a 'malfunctioning device that cannot be recognized'. It is also possible the connection drops during file transfers.

The solution seems to be to manually download firmware 4.2.8110, and keep it ready. Connect the reader, put the firmware onto it (if I remember correctly, KoboRoot.tgz in the .kobo folder), and disconnect. The reader will update.

Uder firmware 4.2.8110 I haven't had any connection failures.

If you can't get the reader to be detected anymore, you can use NirSoft's USBDeview to remove the USB assignments for Kobo and Unkown Device, reboot, and then connect the reader again.

Note: Nirsoft USBDeview is a third party utility. Use at your own risk. (Although in practice, the worst thing that could happen is that you have to reinstall a device if you remove the wrong one.)

To be honest, I think it's weird Kobo wipes even the firmware when resetting the reader. AFAIK, a Kindle just keeps the version that is installed.

It seems after jackassing around for almost 4 months, the KA1 finally works as I hoped it would in the beginning of September.
Of the firmware versions available for the Aura ONE, only the one that you get when doing a factory reset should suffer from this Win10 problem. If you let it update the firmware immediately, either via WiFi or using the desktop application, it should be OK. And of course, MS have released updates that should solve this for all firmware versions.
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