Thread: Kobo WiFi SD image
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Old 07-07-2017, 12:39 AM   #682
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Originally Posted by sameerthahir View Post
The Kobo was out of charge and inspite of charging for 12 hrs, the device was not powering on. When I slide the power button the blue led lights up for few seconds and goes off. The screen does not respond.
The blue LED flashing is good because it at least means something is happening. If it flashes a few times and goes off, mostly that means the battery level is to low and needs to be charged. From memory, if it can't read the internal SD card, the blue LED will flash like this as well.
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Since I hadnt charged the kobo for a week, I thought the battery would have totally drained off. I used some information from a forum and removed the back cover and charged the battery by connecting it to a 9v battery. I later checked the voltage to find that the battery was totally charged.
I've heard of doing that, but it isn't something I want to do.
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But the device was still showing the same blue led.

I removed the SD card and inserted it into my laptop to find that it was unreadable. It was not even detected. Hence I thought the reason might be a damaged card and bought a new one to flash the image.
How is it not readable? If you are using a Windows machine, it cannot handle the partitions on the card. In this case, look in Drive Manager (or whatever it is called). That should show the card and the partitions on it. Two will be shown as unknown or not formatted, the other will be FAT32. If the card or the partitions aren't shown, then that's a problem.

If it is a MAC or Linux machine, then not being able to mount the card or partition does show a problem.

If the card is failing, you can use a new card. I can send you an image to restore and try. And if you want, you can put a larger card in and expand the books partition.
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