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Originally Posted by Xullo
Good morning. My Kobo Libra H2O also makes noise, I notice it especially at night, reading in bed...and it bothers me. I have the original Kobo firmware, would anyone know if installing Koreader or similar, this would be solved? Thank you.
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Depend on where exactly the problem lies in your model, I've heard of varying symptoms but most I believe can be traced to either low quality/faulty hardware components (not really my area of expertise).
So I think your options are:
- Return said device and get a new one if possible... and hoping for one without issues (look at batch/fabrication numbers).
- Change how you use it (I've noticed changing orientation make a big difference, even if it only changed the direction of the noise)
- Changing settings, i.e. try disabling/enabling WiFi
- Tweaking drivers might work, can be done manually I think (but wouldn't recommended trying if you don't know exactly what you're doing) or via firmware updates and hope Kobo managed to fix it... No idea what would need to be changed though and Kobo's changelog (if it can be called that) is rather less in-depth than I would have liked.
As I understand it, koreader is just an ebook reader, so switching to koreader would be like changing web-browser, (small) change in user experience and possibly an increase/decrease in battery drain, but no real impact on the actual device (since koreader doesn't replace the actual operating system, only a bit of what you see, think Android with only one fullscreen app). Correct me if I'm wrong though, not used it myself yet and not seen anything that would give more control over the device than the native app does.