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Old 04-24-2018, 10:58 PM   #51
geek1011
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: Ontario, Canada
Device: Kobo Mini, Aura Edition 2 v1, Clara HD
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
On the device in the directory ".kobo", there is a file called "affiliate.conf". This contains the company that is associated with your Kobo account. Usually this is related to how you first signed up and I assume they get a share of any books you buy from Kobo. Kobo control the firmware distribution based on this and some other things. They start with a few smaller, and possibly Canadian based affiliates, and gradually expand the distribution over a few weeks. Over the years, people have found which affiliate gets the firmware first, and geek1011 site uses these. If you edit the file above and change the affiliate to one of these, the device should update if there is firmware available.
I just added a new table to to my fw downloader to make this kind of thing easier. It shows which affiliates have the latest versions for each device. I've attached a screenshot of this table and another useful table I added.
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