Thread: Kobo firmware still sucks
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Old 07-01-2019, 11:36 PM   #82
davidfor
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Originally Posted by geek1011 View Post
I also wish there was a bit more structure to the releases, as there are sometimes hours and sometimes months between releases. Also, I still can't figure out for the life of me what that '-s' version was all about. Also, the thing which happens every now and then with them releasing a buggy version, then a new one shortly after (just after I finish the patches) bothers me a bit.
You would prefer them to leave the buggy version out there? That usually happens when Kobo consider the bug bad enough to really cause a problem. And they will usually stop rolling out the bad version first. And occasionally, they have put an update out a early when a problem was discovered a bit later.

There are also some other impacts. I think one of the recent releases was for some other product release or change, possibly "Kobo Plus" in the countries that have it. I think they had planned to include the Parental Controls with that, but couldn't finish it in time. So they hid it, and had another release when they were happy with it.
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Once I got used to that, I actually liked it better, as I'm not constantly trying to see under my finger when I start dragging. It also helps because the touchscreen is a bit offset for me (that's my number one bug), so I can properly estimate the offset I need.
Overall, I think the selection has improved recently. And using the handles as well. The initial "grab" of the handles takes an extra step, but, it seems to be more accurate once you get going.
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