Thread: Instructions for patching firmware 3.19.5761
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Old 06-16-2018, 08:21 PM   #145
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Originally Posted by mortimer7 View Post
hi, i have last firmware on my Aura 6", can i downgrade to this version without lost my book/underlining/annotations/collections? i have a KoboReader.sqlite of 1 month ago, can i use it?
Why don't you try it and see? It won't damage the device. If it fails, you will probably just be forced to sign in to you Kobo account again. At the worst, it will be a factory reset. The database structure is backwardly compatible, but there have been some changes in how some data is stored. These are mainly in the way the stats are stored. I'd expect you will loose all the reading stats, but you should keep the reading status for books.

If your database backup is from 3.19.5761, you can try restoring that after doing the firmware downgrade. If you do it before, it will be updated to the latest database version. After restoring the database, shutdown the device as quickly as possible. Then it will be reread during the start-up.

What I suggest doing is taking a copy of all the files on the books partition before trying. If things go wrong, you can restore this and try again. If your database is from
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