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Old 09-18-2017, 08:34 AM   #8
tshering
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Originally Posted by Gary57 View Post
Isn't there a way to enable userscripts to run when starting the KSM environment? As it was the screen that froze but no the device itself, it would be possible to start KSM again. A way to run a forced screen refresh script could be a solution. (unless it was an actual faulty product, hardware wise)
From your first post I understand that you were able to power the device several times on and off, and that the screen did not change. I think the most likely explanation is that the device had some hardware problem. On power on, KSM usually presents the main menu. This involves overwriting the screen. If there is not user input, nickel is started automatically after 20 secs or so (unless you changed this in the configuration), this involves several further screen updates. As the KSM menu was unable to effect the screen (nor nickel and its starting animation, I guess), any script to update the screen would also have failed.

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some sort of userscript to hard reset when something like this goes wrong with the system? Like a script to respond to holding the powerbutton,
Holding the power button powers the device off. This is important, when some application becomes unresponsive. It would not be a good idea replace this function by one that factory resets the device.

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as the device didn't respond to the manual factory reset like it should after installing KSM/koreader.
How did you try to factory reset the device?

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