Thread: New Kobo Firmware "April 2019" v4.13.12638
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Old 04-18-2019, 09:05 AM   #77
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Originally Posted by EmperorMittens View Post
Unfortunately, this didn't work. My problem seems to have gone beyond this version now. I am not sure what happened, but I rolled back to both 4.12 and then 4.9 and neither corrected the problem I described that started with this update.
I think I have to do a factory reset, but it will have to wait until I can get back to my computer with my library to put books back on.
It didn't work because the problem as you described it in no way matches the problem @Semwize has been talking about. One of them sort of does, but, that could be that particular book matches whatever it is that is triggering the problem @Semwize is reporting.

What is most likely is that the database on the device is corrupt. Your description of books missing, and reading locations not updating is usually caused by database problems. This is unlikely to have been caused by the update. It is probable that the database has been corrupted for a while, but, the restart needed during the firmware update means the database was reread. If you want to check, you can use my Kobo Utilities plugin in calibre to check the database. But, I expect that if you connect to calibre, you will get an error about the corrupt database when it tries to get the list of books on the device.

The fix for this, is to sign out of the Kobo account and back in again. This will create a fresh database and import the sideloaded books. It will mean you lose the reading status of the sideloaded books, but that will happen with a factory reset as well.

If you have a recent good backup of the database, restoring that should also work.

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Originally Posted by EmperorMittens View Post
Edit: The "Home" page changed on me too.
I used have a larger single "recently read" on the upper left. A cascading of covers showing new books in the upper middle. I don't remember what was on the right side or lower as I never used them.
Now it is 4 recently read on the upper half with a "my books" that seems to be cascading covers for "new" in the lower left and then it seems to be same author cascading covers in the lower right.
What firmware version were you running before? That sounds like the old tiled home screen. This a replace with the current home screen in firmware version 4.4. And that was released nearly two years ago.
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