Thread: Firmware 4.8.11073
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Old 05-30-2018, 11:58 PM   #53
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Incanus View Post
Hello:

I have a Kobo Aura 2013 (yup, the original) and I keep my e-books on a 32Gb Class 4 uSD SanDisk Card; thousands of e-books, many a Collection... al organized using Calibre. My current firmware is 3.19.5613, for many performance reasons.

Anyone with similar reader/library configuration has tried this firmware for:

Collection access time?
General interface response?
Any lags?

I'm trying to avoid past slow response issues with my Aura on newer firmware.
As the last firmware you tried was 4.6.9995, I think the only noticeable performance improvement has been in highlighting text. This did change in the 4.8.x firmware and seems faster.

Compared to 3.19.5613, the 4.8.x firmware has much better performance for collections. I don't remember exactly when that changed, but I think it was before 4.6.x. For the rest, your stated experience with 4.6.9995 sounds more like that for the previous firmware, 4.6.9960. It had a severe performance bug and was withdrawn quickly and the issues fixed in 4.6.9995.

If you want to test 4.8.11073, the steps you have in the post you linked to will work. But, when I do this sort of thing, I normally take a full copy of the book partition. Then I can wipe and restore this later if I want to go back. That means I can do a factory reset and still get back to my starting point.
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