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Old 05-14-2017, 02:04 PM   #182
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Originally Posted by k9reeder View Post
It's a shame Kobo doesn't allow users/owners of a Kobo to decide when and if they will update firmware. If I get a warning from Kobo that I will lose x y or z functionality if I don't upgrade, that's fine. It's my decision. But I'd still like to be able to turn on wifi, and do word lookups with google and Wikipedia, use the browser, as I can now, without fear of having to risk being forced a download of buggy firmware that may or may not kill my sd card slot or ruin stats etc.

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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan View Post
You can... if you patch your ereader and disable wifi updates.
Does anyone know if this is correct? Is there a current patch that allows one to enable and use wifi without getting a forced firmware update? Can't seem to find anything like that. Thanks.
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