Good Evening Everyone,
The same thing happened to me. I have a Kobo Mini N705. Used it for years without issue. I became another victim of a forced upgrade. Very angry with the Kobo company right now. It's like having someone break in and barge into your living room and hooking up a newer cable box. Talk about draconian and invasive. Anyhow, anger and negativity aside..
I have been reading through a few different threads, but at the moment unsure of exactly what to do. My unit got bricked. Attempting a reset results in a green light flashing, then blue, then blank black screen followed by a blank white screen.
The best solution that I can see is flashing a .img of older firmware onto the internal micro sd card and rebooting the system. However before I request a link to a .img file, I have a question:
I was logged out of my device (for a stupid reason.. I thought the library had a glitch.. I know) before this horribleness happened. If I reflash the sd card, it will most likely ask me to connect to kobo desktop or wifi again to login. Is it possible to downgrade to older firmware and be able to log back in without upgrading or somehow blocking the upgrade?
Thank you for reading and I appreciate all responses. This is also my first post here and I believe in karma, so if I can't pay it directly back, I'll pay it forward somehow.
Have a wonderful morning, day or evening where ever you may be.
-Snow