[rashkae]

I would suggest installing the latest firmware release, then you can enable sideload mode. All of this can be done without internet or registering the Kobo. If you really want to bypass registration on the older firmware, I can help with that, but can't think of any benefit to doing so.

Can you be more precise what do you mean by doing a Hard Reset? In my mind, you are only rebooting the device, and not restoring factory defaults.

You can delete all user accessible files on the device, including the .kobo folder. It will not break the device, (but of course, books will have to be re-added and bookmarks will be lost.) You will lose the dictionary, but it can be downloaded from a web browser easy enough.

The simplest SQL command to enter a blank user in the user database is:

INSERT INTO user(UserID,UserKey) VALUES('1','');

Note that since only UserID, and UserKey fields acutally require a value, this will work without having to know the exact number of empty columns.

I 100% that this knowledge should be publicized for those interested (even though, now pretty irrelevant.)