The Glo model is a strange bird, almost a dinosaur in the history of Kobo readers. Mine was purchased in 2013 (from Amazon, of all places). It had a different kind of freeze problem- it froze in the middle of one epub file that may have been formatted funky. You know you have one of those when a paragraph is followed by a huge set of blank lines. When you flip to the next page, it has the another paragraph followed by white space. Why two straight pages with gaps between the paragraphs, at the end of a chapter?
Anyway, with such an old reader there seems to be a bug in the software that thinks the battery is 90% charged based on voltage, and not available current. This is when my freeze occurred, and no button press (even the 30 sec power off) would get it out of the zombie state. The backlit illumination was in the on state. I gave the reader a day to discharge, but even that was not enough for a recharge cycle, using a charger, to work. I nearly gave up and just plugged it into a PC with a known good USB cable. The unit responded with the screen for enabling PC connection or charging. Frankenstein responded. It was its wakeup call. This is strange behavior, but heck, if it works to revive this old reader, I'll take it.
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