Thread: Touch Backing up Kobo Touch N905B firmware.
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Old 08-03-2019, 10:44 AM   #9
davidfor
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Originally Posted by geek1011 View Post
The new reset option in the Developer Options section might do a full reset. I will have a look at the firmware later today.

Update 1: So, for the strings, there are a whole new set of rm commands which are more specific than rm -rf /mnt/onboard/.kobo. There are also 3 strings: "Signing out...", "Resetting device...", and "Factory resetting...".

Update 2: During the new partial reset, it runs mkfs.vfat on the KOBOeReader partition now to reformat it completely. It also removes the external storage directory recursively.

Update 3: The full reset remains the same (it triggers it to have it done through the recovery firmware).

Update 4: The sign out remains the same (removes .kobo, .kobo-images, .adobe-digital-editions, koboExtStorage, but not the sideloaded books).

Update 5 (the last one): The Developer Options reset does trigger the full reset unlike the Device Information one. Also, a bit off topic, but sickel can be enabled/disabled over DBus (com.kobo.watchdog.Sickel/Suspend) (this might interest @NiLuJe). You can also ping sickel with com.kobo.watchdog.Sickel/Ping.
I probably shouldn't have used "should" in my post. I have tested each of the different methods since I noticed the change, though not on all devices.
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