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Originally Posted by blue_skies
Thank you, I didn't know any of that. Although the upgrade I applied before I did the factory reset was not OTA, and I think was supposed to be the full image. I got it from this post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=690
Was that Twitter link in the post above not the full system image? Or perhaps just a rare occasion when it actually was made available? I am pretty clueless about this stuff and saved that download thinking I could just put it on my Mimas as update.zip at any point and it would update to that firmware, even if it's a reversion. Am I misunderstanding any of that?
Thank you for taking the time to clarify these things for me. I really appreciate it. 
For anybody reading this thread and wondering about the latest firmware, I would like to add that the April 17th, 2020 update has been fantastic for me so far. Everything seems to be working great, and I love the new features - especially the new ZReader app which is so much nicer than the original built-in reading software.
I appreciate that Boyue has continued to update even the older models. |
No the Twitter link was the file your device would download before they had some server snaffu. The updates disappeared for awhile and durring that time frame just put them up locally. Now the ota works again. A full image is about 1GB. If you backup the device with rktool it takes over 1GB as it takes it all (full firmware) minus the user data.
If they ever give us a oreo build its ota will be big and probably a full image for some radio and bootloader updates I would assume.