Thread: Kobo Update - Signin - Why??? Can i reverse?
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Old 03-05-2018, 07:41 PM   #3
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Papered Over View Post
I booted up the Kobo which hadn't been used in a while and it sync'd and updated to an update and to my horror it is forcing a sign in to use the device.

I'm getting very fed up these days with companies doing this to hardware devices unannounced.

What are my options other using a hammer or going for another device, to reverse the damage to my device.

Is there a way to root it and reinstall previous versions or something like that?
How did you use the Glo before without signing in? No firmware version released for the Glo would work without signing in first. There has been workarounds to this, but they required the manipulation of the database that geek1011 mentioned. For the earlier devices and firmware versions, this could be skipped, but it did limit some function (don't ask me what, it's been to long).

What is most likely to have happened is that the internal database on the device was corrupt. This gets detected during the restart of the device during the firmware update. At that point, if the database corruption was something that couldn't be handled, the device will clear the database and put you into the setup mode. And hence prompting for the same Kobo account details you had been using before.

If you want to back out to an older firmware, there is plenty of discussion here about how to do this. But, it won't change the fact that the Kobo devices have always needed to be setup. And the database manipulation that geek1011 mentioned is also well discussed.
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