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Originally Posted by DNSB
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@DNSB; I just want to say you're an absolute livesaver! With the .img file you shared I was able to revive our Kobo Libra 2 flawlessly. Big, big thanks! It is unbelievable how incompetent/unhelpful the repair service/aftersales of a big Dutch online reseller was ('too old', no more parts, unrepairable, blah, blah) knowing how easy it actually was to restore the problem. Sad to think that many people will just accept it when they're being told that the device is defective and the solution is to buy a new one... Thanks again!
For the people who also have an unresponsive Kobo Libra 2 (white screen, blinking light) this is what I did to get it working again (OS = Windows 11):
1. First open the back cover with a plastic pry tool.
2. In my case I could not see any waterproof sealing on the SD Card, but believe me it was there, since that card was stuck(!). I grabbed the SD card corners between my fingertips, wiggled it gently from left to right and used a very, very thin precision screwdriver tool to push the card out from the other side (there is a very tiny hole there). I also heated up the board with a hairdryer for a few seconds (not long!) and after approx. 10 minutes of carefully trying I noticed that there was movement in the card and eventually it came out.
3. I requested and received the matching .img.
4. I downloaded that file and extracted it.
5. Next I inserted a brand new micro SD card into the computer and installed balenaEtcher, which was recommended here somewhere as well.
6. balenaEtcher has a very simple user interface. I selected the correct file, then I selected the correct drive (= new micro SD card) and let balenaEtcher do it's magic. NOTE: when I inserted in the new SD card into the computer it was in NTFS, but balenaEtcher + .img formatted the SD card to FAT32 automatically.
7. After this was completed I inserted the new SD card + new firmware in the Kobo Libra 2. Initially it did not respond, but it turned out that the battery was completely empty. After approx. 2-3 minutes I could turn it on again and it came back to life!
Thanks again!!!