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Originally Posted by sabredog
the question has been asked many times but Kobo support staff seem most reluctant to discuss the possibility of an SD card image being provided.
I asked staff at A&R over the phone today and they have simply suggested contacting Kobo technical help. This certainly does not instill me with any degree of confidence, though I did send an email.
I am truly not keen to go down the USB path with the increased risk of bricking my investment. The firmware updates I have done in the past were all simple files and not via USB.
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Thanks for the response. It does seem rather strange, and given that some people who have experienced failed upgrades/issue have been sent a SD card to reflash their Kobo proves they certainly have the procedures in place.
I too do not like the idea of requiring the use of USB to perform an update, and I especially do not like the idea of the software being required to do it (we all know how many times a piece of software can crash for no apparent reason).
Perhaps the underlying reasoning for forcing people to update via USB/software is so Kobo can control the firmware update procedure ie: Updates more of an incremental update resulting in the inability to reflash back to a previous firmware. Who knows, perhaps I have been spoilt by my reader which allows me to flash any firmware version at any time (and even from other vendors). I am still interested in the Kobo (the price is damn attractive), but if as a Linux user I am unable to perform maintenance on a Linux-based device.....kind of ironic