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Old 10-09-2020, 01:00 PM   #1
trembling
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Device: Kobo Aura (N514)
Can't downgrade firmware

Hello everybody, I registered today to ask for help with my Kobo Aura (N514). Please bear with me since I'm no geek

I use to turn on wi-fi on my kobo only to search for firmware updates and so far I had no trouble downloading and installing them. I'm running latest official firmware 4.24.15676. Unfortunately I've a problem with the new GUI introduced a couple of updates ago, if I remember correctly, as I much preferred browsing ebooks listed by page numbers instead of scrolling. So I tried to downgrade to version 4.23.15548 which I think to be the last one with the old GUI.

First of all I was surprised to find zipped 4.23.15548 inside my .kobo folder, though my device is running 4.24.15676 (I'm on macOS 10.12.6 btw):



I wasn't sure about how to proceed. I tried trashing 4.23.15548 and unzipping the freshly downloaded 4.23.15505, but my device seemed not to notice anything and kept running latest version. In short I tinkered deleting and adding but got nowhere. So before bricking my device I thought to ask for help to more skilled users. TIA
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