Gen3 Trouble with Gen3, tried downgrading

Inssomniak · 02-21-2012, 08:09 PM

Hey all, My wife has had a Gen3 Cybook for a long time, and recently its been freezing and the battery has been dying over one night (like its stuck on)
400mhz, 512meg storage.

She bought a new kindle, but I wanted to just restore this one to factory state, and the wiki suggested formatting the internal memory with fat32. So I did that and seems the freezing is gone, but now I can't put any books on it, it can't find any. Its constantly asking me to select the language and sometimes the case colour? It never saves it.

I tried also in the wiki to load the 796fmt firmware just to perhaps let it wipe it clean and restore a factory state, but no matter what I do I can't load that firmware. I can load the 2.1, or 1.6 firmwares all day but it won't downgrade to that one. It ignores the file.

Can anyone help me get this going again?

bob123 · 02-21-2012, 08:53 PM

How can a grayscale device ask for case colour?

Inssomniak · 02-22-2012, 08:22 AM

Hah I dunno, it asked a few times about selecting a cabinet colour to choose from, 8 or so colours.

Billi · 02-22-2012, 02:08 PM

Inssomniak, be glad that it won't let you downgrade to the 796 firmware.
Load Mobipocket firmware 1.6, buy a new battery and try to solve your problems here. It's much more stable than the epub firmware.

Inssomniak · 02-22-2012, 05:23 PM

Right now neither 1.6 or 2.0 ePub work properly. Neither let me load a book onto either the internal ram or sd card. It can never find it and both continuously ask me to set the language.

EowynCarter · 02-23-2012, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inssomniak

Right now neither 1.6 or 2.0 ePub work properly. Neither let me load a book onto either the internal ram or sd card. It can never find it and both continuously ask me to set the language.

The internal ram looks like it's having a problem. Try running a checkdisk.
Is Fat32 the proper format for it ?

02-21-2012, 08:09 PM	#1
Inssomniak Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Cybook Gen3, Kindle	Trouble with Gen3, tried downgrading Hey all, My wife has had a Gen3 Cybook for a long time, and recently its been freezing and the battery has been dying over one night (like its stuck on) 400mhz, 512meg storage. She bought a new kindle, but I wanted to just restore this one to factory state, and the wiki suggested formatting the internal memory with fat32. So I did that and seems the freezing is gone, but now I can't put any books on it, it can't find any. Its constantly asking me to select the language and sometimes the case colour? It never saves it. I tried also in the wiki to load the 796fmt firmware just to perhaps let it wipe it clean and restore a factory state, but no matter what I do I can't load that firmware. I can load the 2.1, or 1.6 firmwares all day but it won't downgrade to that one. It ignores the file. Can anyone help me get this going again?

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02-21-2012, 08:53 PM	#2
bob123 Addict Posts: 237 Karma: 34996 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Cybook	How can a grayscale device ask for case colour?

02-22-2012, 08:22 AM	#3
Inssomniak Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Cybook Gen3, Kindle	Hah I dunno, it asked a few times about selecting a cabinet colour to choose from, 8 or so colours.

02-22-2012, 02:08 PM	#4
Billi Wizard Posts: 3,388 Karma: 14190103 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Device: Cybook, iRex, PB, Onyx	Inssomniak, be glad that it won't let you downgrade to the 796 firmware. Load Mobipocket firmware 1.6, buy a new battery and try to solve your problems here. It's much more stable than the epub firmware.

02-22-2012, 05:23 PM	#5
Inssomniak Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Cybook Gen3, Kindle	Right now neither 1.6 or 2.0 ePub work properly. Neither let me load a book onto either the internal ram or sd card. It can never find it and both continuously ask me to set the language.

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