[Hayvan]

Hello there. I've been lurking the forums for about months, but just didn't care much about internet at all to even register here. So today was the day I guess. Hello again.

All I wanted to do is that to get rid of footer, page counter at the bottom of my Glo HD when reading my lecture and class-note .pdf files. Or at least something that could help keep the page zoom and display area locked when I change pages. It was a huge pain doing zoom and orienting every single time you change pages. It also eats out from e-ink lifetime because of page refreshing everytime.

Tried to upgrade the firmware from 3.14 to the latest released hoping for a fix maybe. Oh boy it was so bad that it was so much internet-biased, with gibberish main screen screaming for other things rather than "read books!", and drained my glo's battery in hours for couple of times.

I downgraded back to my beloved 3.14, default version for Glo HD.

Then after some research time on forums, I did find about Kobo Start Menu, and through that interface was to install Kobo Hacks, so at least then I can use a single hack from its database to achieve what I wanted.

Installing KSM went fine, everything worked in it. Tried Koreader first and it didn't go so well, didn't appeal to me. It was pretty unstable but a nice piece of coding anyways. Then I went on for installing Kobo Hacks. Contrary to Koreader installation, Hacks didn't install instead, and I did give up since I didn't have much free time back then, It was this time I left my kobo on the shelf for 3 straight days.

This morning when I picked it up, It was on KSM main page as I left it, but didn't respond to anything. Didn't respond to my touches, didn't respond to power button, also the reset button. Holding them for long didn't work either, just power button would give a 2 second of red light and that was it. I thought about battery but it was already full last time I left it. Connecting to my PC didn't work because usb connectivity is deactivated in KSM by default. (whatever the reason, this got me pretty angry)

I thought it was bricked. First thing that came up my mind was the little SD storage, the main hd of my kobo. Removed the back cover, took the battery plug out gently, pressed power button several times to drain leftover in circuits, then took the SD card out.

I connected it to my PC using my Sansa Clip, because an adapter wouldn't work on my windows maybe because it's an ext4 formatted disk, but I couldn't see other partitions than the "unreadable one" by default. so Sansa would kind of be a bridge adapter. Connected through, checked the SD with Paragon, there were two 16MB "ears" at the beginning and the end of SD, and between them were
"bootfs" , "recoveryfs", and the casual storage partition.

I have formatted the bootfs directly, gave it back its label, thinking the brick was caused by filesystem malfunction, hoping that the reader would boot for "recoveryfs" and it would install the factory defaults back to "bootfs" partition.

That's where I am now. I put it back and it didn't work, but at least I got my Glo HD back responding to everything, but just a white blank screen and the screen getting a little reset when I hold the power button.

I think I have a blank boot partition along with the usual untouched stuff right now. Any help will be appreciated. Or even for a shortcut a default bootfs image would be fine.

All I wanted was to read my pdf files in true fullscreen. Look where I am now, haha.

Also I wrote these in a long breath so people can see and reason with what I've been through. E-reading community isn't so wide globally yet. Thanks.