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Old 09-04-2019, 03:36 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by Frenzie View Post
The turn of phrase "Background sync" definitely doesn't imply that to me. In fact I might well be slightly upset to learn that my device was wasting battery daily for a sync that's seemingly only supposed to happen in the background while I was using it.

Is this something that indeed happens on all Kobos? See here what I found during a brief investigation.
The label is bad. But, it is a once a day full sync with Kobo servers. You can set a rough time period for it to happen. And you can turn it off. If it is enabled, and the device is sleeping when the sync is due, the device will wake and do the sync. This has been in the firmware for years.
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