Thread: Firmware 4.6.10075
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Old 11-26-2017, 06:39 PM   #66
davidfor
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Originally Posted by nikev View Post
Hi all -- I cannot seem to side load this firmware to my original H20. I followed the usual procedure, but the device does not reboot and install the new firmware upon disconnect.
That almost definitely means you made a mistake when you copied the files to the device. Are they still there when you connected again?
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Also it does not update to the new firmware when connected to the Desktop app, or over the air.
As stated early in the thread, this is only being released to "Rakuten-affiliated devices". That means the affiliate has to be "rakutenbooks" for it to be downloaded.

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Any idea why this is? I am definitely running the previous version, per the version numbers for firmware releases.

Also: I accidentally deleted the some stuff in the .kobo directory, including the sqlite database, the second time I tried to side load. The reader seems to be working okay (apparently the database rebuilds itself?) but I am wondering whether I should be doing a factory reset.
The last time I removed the database from a Kobo device, it triggered the setup process. The sideloaded the books. That was a while ago, so maybe they have changed it somehow. They do tend to read the database and run on in-memory structure. It would be interesting to see if the file has been created. But, it is likely that if you power off and on, it won't find the database as it restarts and will prompt to do the setup then. I would recommend doing this. If the data survives, good, but if it does the setup, it's probably better to do it now than later.
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