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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm not sure what "bad things" you've heard about the 2.0 firmware, but you've been misinformed. The only issue with it is that there's a minor bug in the library screen, meaning that it doesn't read metadata from ePub books. The actual ePub reader itself is a tremendous improvement over 1.9, and is completely stable. I would strongly suggest that you upgrade to 2.0.
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Problems I've heard:
Unusable library due to epub issues (whether or not this is blown out of proportion, I don't know; I have a hard time finding a by-the-numbers account of what's going on with it, what the actual user-ramifications are, and what the workarounds actually mean for a user)
Flashing problems (leading to rma's)
Some people reporting abnormally slow page turns
Battery issues (I've only seen people reporting this in the last day or two because the thread was necro'd, so wasn't a decision before about firmware usage; but it is an issue now)
Looking at the "official" 2.0 list, 1.9 already had the features, and there was no mention of increased performance/stability/bug fixes/etc. Up until this issue, I wasn't having stability problems (I've read it for 3 or 4 hours at a stretch with no problem), and 1.9 already had the features. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, especially when there's no way to go back to the 1.9 firmware I'm currently happy with (aside from last night).
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Originally Posted by Godzil
And you forget that the 1.9 have major and destructive bugs that can led to the to the total loss of your content... You should leave the 1.9 version and use the 2.0 even if it as the small metadata bug, they are really slight compared to the majors bugs the previous firmware had...
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No, I didn't forget; I never knew. There's no sticky about "Opus Bugs" or "Things you should know about your Opus" or anything like that. Searching the forum for "content loss" yields up three threads. This one, and two others (the most recent of the other two is almost a year old). The thrust is basically "don't be a moron when disconnecting the device; do it the way you're supposed to, and you won't have problems."
Are you saying that you can pull the usb cable now in 2.0/1.5 without bothering with doing the Safely Remove Hardware under windows (or a double sync under linux; the old sun admin in me does a double sync, instead of a single sync. It's just the way I was taught back in the day)?
Further searching found
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...t=66973&page=3 which is probably the thread you are thinking I should have read (now 3.5 months old)? Personally, I'm firmly of the opinion Bookeen should have mentioned something about fixing a bad data-loss bug in their update notes if it's something they fixed, instead of forcing people to assume things. Yes, I know they don't put everything in release notes; I've written enough of them myself to know that. Still, there are times that a software developer has to own up to the fact that there was a bad data-loss bug that got fixed.
As a question, where did you get the info about the nand flash you mentioned in the thread I linked? I'm having a hard time tracking down the source of that.