Thread: Kobo Firmware 4.6.9995
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Old 10-16-2017, 08:59 PM   #100
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Seems to be working fine on my Mark 5 Aura. Nice and fast, no unexpected behavior, and the two-finger swipe to adjust lighting seems to finally(!) work like it used to (the primary reason I've stuck with 3.12.1 for so long).
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First post after longtime lurking with no user! :-)

I have a Mark 5 Aura, too (the original 2013 edition).

I'm also staying for the forseable future on 3.12.1: for it's stability and full (beta) features... not so much for it's perfomance.

Is this 4.6.9995 firmware version showing better performance than the good ol' 3.12.1?

I'm specially interested in the Collections response time; I usually wait for two minutes (or so) before I reach them. I do keep 14.774 books 239 collections, storing them on a 32Gb Class 4 uSD SanDisk Card that I manage with Calibre.

I've tried other firmware versions (including 4.5.9587 and 4.6.9960) but so far the Collections' access time doesn't improve (and I don't use the rest of the new features) so I keep downgrading to 3.12.1.

That being said: any advice on upgrading my Aura (or not) to this new firmware?

BTW: I'm chilean (spanish native speaker) so please forgive any mispelling or grammar errors; my written english is rather rusty.

Thanks in advance,

Incanus
I may have spoken too soon. The two-finger swipe to adjust the front light still has a bit of flakiness that can make it really annoying. It's responsive enough but doesn't have the instant works-every-time-without-fail responsiveness of 3.12.1, which I could live with if it wasn't for the other problem: when adjusting the brightness, it'll occasionally trigger a page turn, or it'll highlight a word and open the dictionary.

Adjusting the brightness is something I do quite regularly -- I do a lot of reading in marginal lighting -- so anything that interferes with or outright breaks that feature is a deal-breaker as far as I'm concerned, so I'm now back to my beloved patched version 3.12.1.
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