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Originally Posted by VirgoGirl
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1) Danger, you went from .17 to 2.1.4 and now your KT doesn't respond? Has anyone else gone from .17 directly to the new firmware without a problem?
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Slight correction, it would not respond after it come out of sleep mode. I'd wake it up, it would wake up, I'd finish reading the page, tap to turn the page... nothing, tap again... nothing, tap again... nothing... after about the 6th tap it would reboot and be all happy again until the next time it went to sleep. It's been suggested this may be because I use an SD card to store my books on. I did not try this: read/sleep/wake/read procedure without the SD card in. I did try a complete reset and upgrade via the desktop app but still had the same problem. I went back to 1.9.17 as other than dead taps every so often I've had no other problems with it, it's been my favorite firmware.
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Originally Posted by VirgoGirl
2) Should I do a factory reset of the firmware (which would bring me back to .10), then upgrade to 2.1.4, *then* install my sideloaded books? I remember reading in one of the posts that there could be a library issue with sideloaded epubs, and **ALL my 500 books are sideloaded epubs.**
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If you are on 1.9.17, then upgrading to 2.1.4
should not be a problem. I haven't seem anyone post about upgrading from previous firmwares, not that it's not possible I missed one
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3) If I were to find there is a problem with my going to 2.1.4, how do I roll back to .17? I have the firmware .zip packet on my HD.
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Ahhhh yes rolling back. Well I did once just place the 1.9.17 firmware on my Kobo and went back from 2.1.1 and it did rollback ... but ... I could no longer see large bookcovers on the carousel or in sleep/off mode. I could see them in the library view and shortlist. When I went from 2.1.4 back to 1.9.17 I did a factory reset, once of the reasons I store all my books on my SD card so that if I have to do a reset I don't have to copy all my books back over.
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4) Are sideloaded fonts now not useable? I generally use sideloaded fonts, so this would be a problem.
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No problem with sideloaded fonts not working. I do however still find they look much better in 1.9.17 than in 2.1.4, I don't know what Kobo did but they just don't look as good anymore. I use SabonLTStd an OTF font rather and a TTF (if that makes any difference) and non of the other fonts that come with the Kobo look as good.
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5) I read that the Delima font is gone, are any of the other previously "hardwired" fonts that have been removed? I don't have Delima on my laptop, nor do I want to pay for it when it was there before. It's a nice font, removing it makes no sense.
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Yes it is gone but that's about all I can say, see #4
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I'm sorry for all the questions, I want to make an informed decision before I upgrade or stay with .17 (my spouse is running .12 and very happy). Every time I think "I should upgrade", they've released a new version with new issues. That's why I've been stuck at .17, wonky top margins and all.
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That's funny you mention wonky top margins, the books I can currently reading must have the top margin set because I had forgotten all about that with 1.9.17. I do remember other books without the top margin, I just learned to live with it or fix them by adding @page { margin-top: 1em;} in the css of the book.