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Originally Posted by bluepeter
Later still...
I took a look at the old thread to which you linked, and was very interested by the reference to loading Glo firmware onto the Mini. I took the risk, and downloaded Glo firmware (4.38.21908) and dropped it onto the Mini. I'm pleased to report that it updated successfully. My Mini now has the version 4 UI, which I consider a significant improvement on the version 3 UI, which is the most recent Mini firmware. So the end result is that, after today's problems, my Mini is now better to use than it was yesterday.
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Congratulations. With that firmware the Mini should still work online at Kobo. You can even buy books directly from Kobo with it. (At least I can buy books with my Mini using firmware 4.35.20xx.)
I ran into the same issue you did for setup. WiFi wouldn't work and, when I tried to use the Kobo Desktop, it would always time out. I just downloaded the Glo firmware, told setup to use the Kobo Desktop (to get it to see the computer) and then copied the update files via the USB cable. (I use Linux and didn't have any trouble connecting when I did that.)
At any rate, I'm happy it works. I just recently put a 32 GB microSD card in mine, so now I have over 28 GBs of available storage. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it, but I had the spare microSD card and... why not?