[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

Hi! ��

I'm well aware that I'm necroposting here, but, then again, my Kobo Aura 2 is definitely Jurassic by any measure, so this is the perfect place to post...

First of all — thanks, @Kiwisaurus, assuming you're still around: your factory reset thingy seems to have worked. I think. At least, I did get the "black screen of restoring" — the first time, after weeks of frustration, that anything showed me that the Kobo had still some circuits operational! — and it was doing "something".

But after a while, I only get the picture below:

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What exactly is this supposed to mean?

What should my next steps be?

I do have the Kobo Aura connected to power (but hardly any idea if it's charging or not). Does this screen mean that I should press the power button next? And for how long? I tried to just briefly touch it to see if any magic happened, but no — it seems to be content in just displaying that picture for all eternity, and that's it.

I'm sure I'm missing something absurdly simple, or, otherwise, you would certainly mention this screen...