Thread: Kobo & planned obsolescence
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Old 06-16-2021, 04:54 AM   #17
davidfor
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Originally Posted by mr-lucas View Post
I don't understand yet what you're saying. The Kobo instructions clearly say that you should perform the firmware update in order to prevent issues later on with a factory reset. However, you say that these things are unrelated.
I disagree with your conclusion, but, it might be because I understand how the firmware updates and a factory reset works. To the best of my knowledge, the firmware updates have only ever touched the restore partition once. (That was for the N905 Touch, and only for some of them. And I know because I had one and worked with Kobo to get it working.) There is nothing in the final firmware release for the Mini that does this.

No matter what is said on that page, you will need to use the Kobo desktop to do the update after a factory reset. Or install the update package manually.
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Are we mixing up factory reset and manual reset? (https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017605154). FYI: I tried both methods.
No, because they are the same thing. At the top of that page, it says:

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After a manual factory reset, you'll need to set up and sync your eReader again.
The two sets of instructions achieve the same thing. Or at least they do on the firmware version you are running. Recent firmware only wipes the book partition when you do the "Factory reset" from the Device information page. And there are at least two other ways to do a factory reset.

For the record, I did not know that pushing that button in the Mini did a factory reset. For the other devices with a pinhole reset button, they just restart the device.
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