Nia Resurrecting a bricked kobo nia!

[ihave452tunas]

Hi there kobo enthusiasts


Here is what had happened;

This all began when I was trying to upgrade my Kobo's storage from 8 GB -> 32 GB by swapping the SD card as a friend of mine had done.

I powered off the Kobo and pried off the back, then removed the SD card and copied the partitions onto a 32 GB card, and removed all the unallocated space. Issues started to occur once I had reinstalled everything on the 32 GB card. It would not boot, so I extended the unallocated space from the factory card and reinstalled it. This created the same result and bricked the Kobo, the reason for the bricking was the fact that the software I was using had done some other alterations I wasn't able to see and ruined the kobo os.

A few months down the line I was able to get a Kobo Nia SD card image from someone on this forum and flashed it onto both cards they both now booted! victory? sadly not.

Now whenever both cards boot they boot into the setup screen and the languages flash for 1 second and then the device goes into its "out of battery" state requesting to be charged. I had left it charging with different cables, wall adaptors, and even power banks to try to get it started but to no avail.

As a last-ditch effort I put an update file to see what would happen and it did make a difference, only to tell me my battery was too low to update lol.

Anyway, I've hit a wall and I don't know what to do, the kobo boots every time but I can't use it. I also cannot discount it to a battery failure because I had used the device for 3/4 months flawlessly so I'm really stumped at this.

Any ideas?

[Cootey]

You’ve flashed a SD image onto your original SD card, right? But the Nia won’t boot when plugged in?

Have you tried connecting to Kobo Desktop to see if it would connect to the Nia?

[ihave452tunas]

Originally Posted by Cootey

You’ve flashed a SD image onto your original SD card, right? But the Nia won’t boot when plugged in?

Have you tried connecting to Kobo Desktop to see if it would connect to the Nia?

The kobo DOES boot, it gets to the screen on the setup page where you select your language and then it immediately changes to the out of charge screen

[Cootey]

Originally Posted by ihave452tunas

The kobo DOES boot, it gets to the screen on the setup page where you select your language and then it immediately changes to the out of charge screen

It’s possible that the battery has failed even though you used the device fine before. Or perhaps the Kobo doesn’t realize that it’s charged. I wonder, too, if your SD Card was cloned correctly. Have you tried a manual factory reset? https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...Kobo-Elipsa-2E

[Szybet]

Kobo nia's have 2 known lineup versions till now, where the diffrence is the PMIC, power management system so it manages the battery...

So you have the wrong image propably. You can install inkbox on it, we support both nia's.

If you don't like inkbox, you could donate some money to any open source organisation or developer ( for example inkbox os or me, nicolas ;p ) then I would take and share the image for the diffrent nia as I have access for both, I just don't care about this proprietary os. Just check what Inkbox image works for you first.

[ihave452tunas]

Originally Posted by Szybet

Kobo nia's have 2 known lineup versions till now, where the diffrence is the PMIC, power management system so it manages the battery...

So you have the wrong image propably. You can install inkbox on it, we support both nia's.

If you don't like inkbox, you could donate some money to any open source organisation or developer ( for example inkbox os or me, nicolas ;p ) then I would take and share the image for the diffrent nia as I have access for both, I just don't care about this proprietary os. Just check what Inkbox image works for you first.

Didn't even know Inkbox was a thing! i will definitely try it, love these open source projects.

Will post updates soon