Thread: My Kobo Libra 2 has been stuck in a su doku game for over an hour
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Old 01-26-2022, 09:23 PM   #5
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Pjama View Post
The most recent one, 4.31.19086

I don’t know if we are ‘meant’ to be using 'devmodeon' on the new Libra, maybe the games are less stable on the newer device. They were a bit glitchy on the earlier software versions I had, but this never happened. I was enjoying getting back into doing su dokus again, very nice on e-ink.
You aren't "meant" to use Developers mode at all. It is there to allow developers to get in and see more about the device or to allow them to do things that normal users shouldn't. Strictly, normal users would only use it when asked by Kobo support to turn it on to enable logs to be created for you to send to Kobo. But, in general, it doesn't harm to have it on. About the only issue is that it enables telnet which would be considered a security issue. Some of the options available can be a problem. Don't forget to turn off the "Force WiFi ON" option if you use it, or else you will be wondering why the battery is running down so fast. Of course, that is not a mistake I'd ever make

For the games, I don't know why these are not normally available for the newer devices. But, there is never any real guarantee that they will work. That is why they are under "Beta features". Kobo does maintain them, but, at a very low priority.

For the power button issues you seemed to have had, it should work in three ways:
  • Short tap to put it to sleep or wake it.
  • Hold for a few seconds to trigger the shutdown and power off.
  • Hold for a lot longer to force the device to switch off. I usually say 20 seconds, but, it probably happens before then.
  • Turn the device on when it is off.

Both the sleep and shutdown will change the screen. But, they can fail if the device is hanging.

The third one just turns the device off. The shutdown might be attempted, but, it it doesn't happen, the device is just turned off. Nothing is saved and the screen is not changed.

Some devices have a pinhole reset button. All this does it trigger a reboot. It doesn't do a factory reset and it doesn't do anything if the device is powered off (at least on the ones I have). It is only useful if the device is hung. It doesn't save anything, just triggers the reboot. If the Libra 2 had one of these, it would gave been the way to go for you.

None of these should trigger a factory reset. The Libra 2 would need the device to be off and for one of the page turn buttons to be held down when the device is turned on. If something happened and you did see a factory reset at one of these times, it basically means it was going to happen no matter what. If you let the battery run down and started it, whatever was going to happen would have happened. You are more likely to get to see the setup triggered than a factory reset. That could happen if the database was badly damaged by whatever happened. While a bad thing to happen, it isn't the full factory reset. You will lose the reading status for the books, but, they will still be on the device for you to read.
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