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Originally Posted by geek1011
I'm not including that in kobopatch itself due to the possibility for easier mistakes and because that will also make people forget to install the firmware first (unless I detect that...maybe).
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I just noticed that the mounted subtree of a Kobo ereader's filesystem contains a ".kobo/version" text file. I don't know if it always has been there. It contains a single line of text with 6 fields, separated by ",". I would suspect that this file has been used all the time for the Kobo desktop software to decide on when to download new firmware and for which device mark type (but I may be wrong here). So this might aid in detecting whether a patched firmware can be applied or whether the user should update first to stock firmware.
- model number plus ?? device serial number ??; for instance, N782.... Maybe someone has a better idea what the following information is?
- ??
- current firmware version, such as 4.12.12111
- ???
- ???
- ???some kind of UID formatted in xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx format???