Thread: Kobo WiFi - a couple questions
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Old 03-31-2018, 08:06 AM   #5
davidfor
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There are a couple of strange things in the versions on the Kobo devices. While the firmware on the WiFi is 1.9.12, if you connect the device to a PC and run the Kobo Desktop, it will update the database to the latest version. This is OK for running the device as the database is very backwardly compatible. The Kobo drivers check the database version and display the unsupported firmware message. Unfortunately, I appear to have forgotten to update the supported database version in the Kobo ereader driver for a while. I'll fix that. Or I might just drop the test for the WiFi and the original Kobo.

In the meantime, if you press the details button and read the full message, it gives instruction on what to do: in the driver configuration, select the option "Attempt to support newer firmware". While there is a warning in the message, it is completely safe.

And for my curiosity, the warning should have the database firmware versions at the end of the message. Can you post them?
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