09-07-2012, 04:26 PM | #1 |
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Kobo Touch ID numbers and firmware updates
On the "Kobo Touch future firmware feature request thread", a few of us have been wondering if there is a connection between device IDs and the well-known problems some have had updating since firmware update 2.0.0 came out. Obviously, to find this out we need some information from you good folks, in the form of:
a) your device ID and version number, b) an indication of the country you bought the Touch and where you did the update(s), c) whether you did it via Kobo Desktop, wifi, or by downloading and installing yourself, and d) whether you have had any difficulties or changes in device behaviour not announced by Kobo as part of the updates since 2.0.0., and, if you did, what they were/are. These include, but are not limited to, failed updates, slow page turns, displaying the wrong book cover ... the list is quite long! e) In addition, if you know the firmware version it came with from the factory that would be useful. f) However, reports of no problems are as useful, so if you have been lucky, please let us know, too! If you would like to help us with this bit of research, the ways of finding the ID/version numbers are: For Windows users How to get this info without Calibre on Windows (thanks to murg for this): 1) plug the Touch into the USB cable and connect. 2) bring up the Device Manager 2a) Windows 7 : Start/Control Panel/Device Manager 2b) Windows XP : Start/Control Panel/System/<one one of the tabs> (this is from memory) 3) under Disk Drives, find Kobo eReader USB Device 4) right click on this and select Properties. 5) select Details tab. 6) change Property dropdown to Device Instance Path 7) the value contains the Revision 8) change Property dropdown to Parent 9) the value contains the PID 10) note that you also get the Touch's serial number device instance path: USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KOBO&PROD_EREADER&REV_YYYY\KG1111111111B&0 parent: USB\VID_2237&PID_XXXX\KG1111111111B Alternatives steps: 3) the Touch will also show up under Universal Serial Bus Controllers as USB Mass Storage Device. Note: There may be more than one USB Mass Storage Device. 6) change Property dropdown to Hardware IDs 7) the value contains the PID and revision skip 8) 9) and 10) Hardware Ids: USB\VID_2237&PID_XXXX&REV_YYYY With Calibre (thanks to davidfor for this): 1. Open Calibre. 2. In the top bar, click on Preferences. 3. Click on Miscellaneous (middle of the bottom row). 4. On the screen that comes up, locate the "Debug device detection" button, but don't press it yet. Connect the KT with a usb cable, and then allow it to connect to the computer. 5. Now, timing is a bit tricky. If you have autorun turned on, click the Debug button just after the box (or boxes if you have an SD card) have opened. If not, probably counting slowly to five would do it. 6. What you should see is a box that says "Getting debug information, please wait ...", and then produces a list of all the usb devices connected to your computer. Run down the list until you find "Looking for devices..." The line below will look like: u'usb\\vid_2237&pid_XXXX&rev_YYYY' (italics will be numbers) Followed by: Detected possible device KoboTouch The device ID/version are the two four-digit numbers after "pid" (those in italics above). If you are Windows user, and don't have Calibre, please see murg's post (#6) below. For Mac users (thanks to Mrs_Often for this): Make sure your Kobo Touch is attached to your Mac, and mounted on the Desktop. 1. Click on the apple to the top left of the menu bar - Click "About this Mac" at the top of the menu that opened 2. A small window with superficial information about your Mac will open - Click the button down the bottom that says "More info…" 3. Skip this step if you're on 10.6.x, for 10.7.x and later: - Hit the "System Report…" button on the bottom left 4. A larger window with detailed information is now open - In the left column, click "USB" under "Hardware" - In the top frame of the window, you'll see the USB Device Tree. From that tree, find and click "eReader" or "Kobo" or whatever yours is named by your Mac. - In the bottom frame of the window, you'll see all sorts of information about your Kobo Touch - Behind "Product ID" you'll see something like 0x4163. The four digits after the x is what you want, plus: - Behind "Version" you'll see something like 3.26. This is the second number you want, without the decimal point, so in my case: 326. For Linux users: (Thanks to RJCroy for this): 1) Open a terminal 2) type the command 'lsusb -v' This will give details of all the USB devices connected. One will be the Kobo. It will look something like: Bus 002 Device 005: ID 2237:4163 Kobo Inc. Couldn't open device, some information will be missing Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x2237 Kobo Inc. idProduct 0x4163 [This is the device ID] bcdDevice 3.26 [This is the version number] If you could spend a few minutes to do this, the information would be really useful, and I'll post updates as we get the information. Last edited by Peakcrew; 09-09-2012 at 07:08 AM. Reason: Added request for factory firmware, and pointed Windows users to murg's post below |
09-07-2012, 06:11 PM | #2 |
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Okay, I'll start this off
a) PID: 4163 rev: 326 b) I bought my Touch in the Netherlands, but before it was officially released in the Netherlands. I think my supplier might have got it from Germany, but I'm not sure. c) I've always done all my regular/official updates via Wifi. I've never done any via Desktop, except for the very first (which was 1.9.14). I updated to the unofficial/Japanese 2.0.2 manually (copying the unzipped files to .kobo), and after that to 2.1.1 the same way d) I have had no troubles at all with any of the updates, except from 2.0.2 to 2.1.1 where the first try my Kobo started up with 2.0.0 for some reason. Putting 2.1.1 on top of that went fine. Yes, 2.0.0 gave me horribly slow page turns and wrong book covers and all the rest of the reported issues, which is why I escaped to 2.0.2 (which didn't help much) and then to 2.1.1 (which is almost perfect). e) Yep I'm lucky P.S. And I use a Mac... maybe that's relevant? Last edited by Mrs_Often; 09-07-2012 at 06:13 PM. Reason: added P.S. |
09-07-2012, 06:43 PM | #3 |
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Hah - usurping my prerogative! (Phone call at the wrong time ...)
a) My device ID is 4163 rev_0110 b) Bought and updated in the UK, but I bought the KT from ebay so I can't say where it originally came from, though all the packaging was in English. c) It came with 1.9.12 installed. First update to 2.0.0 was by Kobo Desktop, then to 2.1.1 by download and direct install. d) No problems with updating either time. Both processes very quick (less than five minutes). Page turns are a little slower than before, but the worst is the amount of time it takes to open the Annotations window, and the text-selector that wanders all over the screen (same in both 2.x.x versions). I haven't had the wrong book-cover problem. I only have sideloaded epubs on my Touch at the moment, stored on the internal memory, though there is an SD card (empty at the moment) installed. All the updating/loading has been done on WinXP so far. Calibre used for putting books on. |
09-07-2012, 07:10 PM | #4 |
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a) Windows recognizes my KT but Calibre, even in debug mode, doesn't, so it doesn't report device ID and version number. Is device ID and version no. available elsewhere?
b) I bought the KT at a Borders in California, and likewise have updated here. c) I have updated via Kobo Desktop on a PC. I'm still on 2.0.0, according to the desktop app. d) Other than not being recognized by Calibre, which really inhibits sideloading of ebooks, my KT with 2.0.0 is mostly slower in most ways (page turns, going home, etc.) than previous firmware versions. |
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How to get this info without Calibre on Windows:
1) plug the Touch into the USB cable and connect. 2) bring up the Device Manager 2a) Windows 7 : Start/Control Panel/Device Manager 2b) Windows XP : Start/Control Panel/System/<one one of the tabs> (this is from memory) 3) under Disk Drives, find Kobo eReader USB Device 4) right click on this and select Properties. 5) select Details tab. 6) change Property dropdown to Device Instance Path 7) the value contains the Revision 8) change Property dropdown to Parent 9) the value contains the PID 10) note that you also get the Touch's serial number device instance path: USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KOBO&PROD_EREADER&REV_0326\KG1111111111B&0 parent: USB\VID_2237&PID_4163\KG1111111111B Alternatives steps: 3) the Touch will also show up under Universal Serial Bus Controllers as USB Mass Storage Device. Note: There may be more than one USB Mass Storage Device. 6) change Property dropdown to Hardware IDs 7) the value contains the PID and revision skip 8) 9) and 10) Hardware Ids: USB\VID_2237&PID_4163&REV_0326 Obviously, my PID is 4163, and the revision 0326. Bought in Australia. Doesn't load the Japan versions. I'd also like to see the Touch's Factory Reset firmware version, which is the version installed at the factory. My Factory Reset firmware version is: 1.9.11 Last edited by murg; 09-07-2012 at 09:37 PM. |
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For the moment I'm using Calibre only to manage my elibrary. I sideload using Windows Explorer from the Calibre library directly to the SD card on my KT. |
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The following should get it: - Open Device Manager - Find the ereader. It should be under "Disk Drives". - Right click on it and select Properties - Go to the Details tab - Here we are interested in two properties: - Hardware Ids - Parent For every other device I have looked at, the Hardware Ids is enough. But, here, the first entry it has is "USBSTOR\DiskKobo___eReader______0326". Other devices show the vendor and product id as numbers rather than the name here. The Parent does show them. That plus the number at the end of the device id will give us the numerical version of the id. |
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Dunno how Murg finds out all that good stuff in the Windows sub-sub-basement, but I followed the directions and got this about my KT:
USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KOBO&PROD_EREADER&REV_0326\KG3170 602871A&0 USB\VID_2237&PID_4163\KG3170602871A So PID is 4163 and version no. is 0326, I guess. |
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- Check the Kobo driver is enabled in the plugin list (Preferences, Plugins, find the driver. If it is light grey, it is disabled) - Run the device detection and post all the output. Hopefully from this we can see what is going on. Last edited by davidfor; 09-08-2012 at 06:15 AM. Reason: fixed quoting |
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OK, so now Calibre recognizes my KT. Tnx to all on this thread, esp. davidfor. I note that he posted the instructions for finding the PID etc. in Windows at exactly the same minute that I thanked murg for doing so. Tnx to all. |
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What kind of something else could also be involved? Database version? I've done no updates with Desktop, have you, murg? |
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Got the same PID and revision number but does load the Japanese versions perfectly. Bought in The Netherlands. Current firmware: 2.1.1 (r42411, 08-24-2012, manually installed) Serial number: KG31C Last edited by Anak; 09-09-2012 at 10:59 AM. |
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To get this information using a Linux PC"
1) Open a terminal 2) type the command 'lsusb -v' This will give details of all the USB devices connected. One will be the Kobo. Quote:
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I think that the Revision number may be the onboard USB driver revision, which may not change much, which is why mostly everyone has the same revision. I have no knowledge to base this on, it is a complete guess. |
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