Thread: Touch kobo firmware - best one?
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Old 01-07-2019, 06:07 PM   #8
davidfor
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Originally Posted by christopher22 View Post
I just had a couple of older kobo touch's I forgot about which I found when I bought them from factory direct (originally was going to use them for Christmas gifts years ago but totally forgot about them.

Anyways the current firmware on them is 1.9.11 and I was reviving them as the batteries had been completely drained. Took a while, to get both to recharge one recharged easier than the other and is keeping the charge but the other one took a bit of coaxing plugging into a wall charger a few times for hours at a time and then it still wouldn't start - I had to plug the wall plug in out quickly a few times in a row which I think jump started it enough to charge enough turn on and start charging.

Regarding firmware 3.11 zip file - there is no upgrade folder - so I'm guessing I don't need to worry about that just copy over the tgz and md5 files.
For the Touch, there were a few firmware versions without the upgrade directory. I don't know why this was the case, but, my memory says it was better to upgrade to the last that had the directory and then upgrade to the one you want to use. The upgrade directory contains the kernel and if you didn't do this, it was running on a much old version.

And if you aren't going to the 4.x firmware, I generally recommend 3.19. For the Aura, there is a reason to stay on 3.12 or 3.14 (two finger swipe for changing the light works properly, I think), but, I can't think of a reason not to go to 3.19 for the Touch.
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One other thing, is the tgz file supposed to be unpacked or copied over into the .kobo directory as the full tgz file?
Unpack the zip file and then copy the contents intact to the device.
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Also, if I chose to back to the original setup 1.9.11, do I just go into the .kobo directory and delete the tgz file and md5 files - or is there more to it than just that?
They won't be there after the upgrade. To go back to 1.9.11, you will need to do a factory reset.
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I'm on a windows system.

Also I noticed in the firmware suggestions someone said to bring back Sudoku - Was it removed in one of the firmware updates?
It should still be there for the older devices. The newer ones don't have any games.
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