Glo Memory Upgrade Mod Guide (With Pictures)

[Rhodium]

Hello,
I get the clara hd image and the clara hd don't boot.
I get a light flashing 3 second and light stay on with blank screen. On the old sdcard(corrupt) i get flashing light and white screen black screen white screen. Can you help me ?
Thanks

[roscolepoulet]

Tried this on my Clara HD with a SanDisk 128GB, works like a charm.
However, I'm trying to upgrade a standard Glo with a 64GB card, but it does not seem to recognize the new partition sizes. Experimenting a bit for now, might try with a 32GB card and seeing what happens.

[roscolepoulet]

Originally Posted by roscolepoulet

Tried this on my Clara HD with a SanDisk 128GB, works like a charm.
However, I'm trying to upgrade a standard Glo with a 64GB card, but it does not seem to recognize the new partition sizes. Experimenting a bit for now, might try with a 32GB card and seeing what happens.

EDIT: This did not work. My Glo will absolutely refuse to give more than 1.3Gb of free space after installation, no matter the SD card, or the OS. Dissapointing to say the least, considered it worked without any hassles on a Clara HD. Oh well.

[Rhodium]

Originally Posted by Rhodium

Hello,
I get the clara hd image and the clara hd don't boot.
I get a light flashing 3 second and light stay on with blank screen. On the old sdcard(corrupt) i get flashing light and white screen black screen white screen. Can you help me ?
Thanks

Hello update : the battery is dead. I change this and the clara hd start correctly now.
I save the .img on my harddrive.

Thanks.

[daemos]

I was in a similar situation as cowchair with my Kobo Libre. I flashed the revision E image onto a new microSD card using dd and gparted to expand the FAT32 partition.

It worked, but unfortunately I'm unable to update the software anymore. It checks for updates, downloads the update, but after restarting its stuck on the same version. I got past the setup stage using these instructions: https://yingtongli.me/blog/2018/07/30/kobo-rego.html and tried manually updating by extracting the update into the .kobo folder, but still no luck.

It's stuck on software version 4.32.19501. Also has a blank serial number.

As of now the eReader is still usable with Calibre, but unfortunately I can't download from my local library with overdrive, as syncing from overdrive also triggers a software update check.

Did anyone have this same problem?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by daemos

I was in a similar situation as cowchair with my Kobo Libre. I flashed the revision E image onto a new microSD card using dd and gparted to expand the FAT32 partition.

It worked, but unfortunately I'm unable to update the software anymore. It checks for updates, downloads the update, but after restarting its stuck on the same version. I got past the setup stage using these instructions: https://yingtongli.me/blog/2018/07/30/kobo-rego.html and tried manually updating by extracting the update into the .kobo folder, but still no luck.

It's stuck on software version 4.32.19501. Also has a blank serial number.

As of now the eReader is still usable with Calibre, but unfortunately I can't download from my local library with overdrive, as syncing from overdrive also triggers a software update check.

Did anyone have this same problem?

Have you tried a manual firmware update after downloading the firmware from https://pgaskin.net/KoboStuff/kobofirmware.html

[daemos]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Have you tried a manual firmware update after downloading the firmware from https://pgaskin.net/KoboStuff/kobofirmware.html

Yes, I tried with a couple different versions, downloading and extracting to .kobo when the SD card is mounted.

[Bembo]

Originally Posted by roscolepoulet

Tried this on my Clara HD with a SanDisk 128GB, works like a charm.
However, I'm trying to upgrade a standard Glo with a 64GB card, but it does not seem to recognize the new partition sizes. Experimenting a bit for now, might try with a 32GB card and seeing what happens.

Did you have to factory reset your Clara? I've been running into issues with mine, for some reason. I cloned the original micro SD card and copied the image onto the new card (512 GB, a bit overkill, I know). The first issue is that the original Kobo partition did not want to extend... I used KDE Partition Manager, which kept giving me issues, and finally I tried Gparted. Eventually, it extends, but mentions there are some fsck issues, except I can't get a proper check done.

Then, I'm able to insert it into the Clara, but it forces me to do a factory reset. I do so, and also unzip the latest stock firmware to be safe. I'm now able to see the full storage listed on the device, but now there is no easy way to restore my previous books and settings (except slowly uploading them). I tried to copy the directory from the previous card, but it's a mess.

[hp123]

hi guys, My old SD card is broken, so I have to reflash the img into my Kobo Clara 2E. thanks David for helping me out with the img file.
However, no matter how hard I've tried, the device is not turned on, and LED indicator just keep blinking forever and non-stop.
My steps were:
1. Download img David sent
2. Format new sd card
3. Use FlashDriveImage writer to write the img file into SD card
4. It shows 3 drives, I extended the SD card storage (KOREADER) by MiniWizard Partition
5. Input back into Kobo Clara 2E
6. It won't boot up and LED keep blinking
I tried to again and again and again.... 2-3 times but no luck. I can be sure that I did the steps very careful. I don't know what to do now. I charged it for an hour but no hope.
Any suggestions/help are highly appreciated, thanks a lot

[hp123]

I tried to press the power button, doing hard reset but no luck. The LED keep blinking.

[thegameksk]

I want to try this with my Libra 2. What's the biggest sd card that should work?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by thegameksk

I want to try this with my Libra 2. What's the biggest sd card that should work?

I tried a 128GB µSD card in my Clara HD. It worked and all the storage was seen. However I ran into slowness issues when I stuffed so many ePubs onto the Clara HD that the KoboReader.sqlite was well over the RAM size making caching it in RAM a non-starter. If you are reading manga/comics where the file sizes are larger, that would not be as big an issue.

[narrenturmx]

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to revive my Libra 2.
I ran through the steps using DD on my Mac to flash the .img to a new SD Card.
After inserting the SD card into my reader I seem to be back at square 1, the screen flashes white, three dots fill up and it just repeats the cycle.
Does anyone have any ideas?

[Olly]

Have got my Kobo Libra 2 back to life after the flashing light problem. Thought I would give a brief summary in case it helps others.

Used a very thin guitar pick (cut to shape) to slide above and below the SD card to loosen the glue holding it in. Took ages but managed to get the SD card out without damage. Followed the instructions to make a clone of the old SD card. Tried to write the clone to a new 32gb card but it said there wasn't enough room on the new card (even though both cards were 32gb). Used a 64gb card and it worked. Ignored all prompted to format the new card.

Put the new card into the slot and all appears to be working.

Thanks for the help from the forum.

[Gregre]

Hi! Can I use the original microSD and rewrite it? Or do I need to get a new one?
If I can rewrite the original, should I use another procedure or is this ok?

I have a KOBO N905C