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Old 07-12-2012, 11:17 PM   #256
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... I was hoping to send this easy to use item to my mum for her birthday. I have kindle which i love but the local libraries say kindle is not able to use their ebooks. Hence my descision to try a kobo for her. Not liking it so far!
I've got the same issue, see this thread.

All I can offer is stick with it! We love our Kobos and now I've downgraded back to .17 I'm back operational. Its unfortunate for people who've just purchased one, and this is their first experience for sure.

You could just factory reset yours and skip the setup? Its an option on the screen where it says connect to a PC. This is fine if you're sideloading books via Calibre or similar and don't need to use the Kobo store.
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Old 07-12-2012, 11:28 PM   #257
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See this new thread from Kobo Why can’t I complete the Kobo Touch firmware upgrade or Desktop upgrade?
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Old 07-12-2012, 11:30 PM   #258
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Encountered another bug:

Read Book A, went to sleep mode, no cover but a page showing "A" and "epub".

Went to check and tried book B. Sleep mode now showed the cover of Book A.

Again back to selection, selected book A, sleep mode showed cover of book B.

Now it seems to be okay, but I'm only reading book A at the moment...
I'm seeing similar problems. One workaround I've found is to pull the sleep button twice, with a pause in between. Sometimes this doesn't show the "real" cover, but a Kobo-generated one that's just the title. At least it's the right book!
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Old 07-13-2012, 12:13 AM   #259
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to fix the shelve issue you need to sign-out from the kobo, and the re-sign in.
I've had the same issue, and fixed it this way.
BUT you'll loose your short-list, reading stats, and book read/unread/last read page status (at least this happen to sideloaded epub)
My shortlist was gone with the update, so though I am a little sad about my reading stats, finished books, etc. I will be ok. Thankfully I track what I read now on goodreads so it wasn't the end of the world.

Thank you so much for the help! I can use the shelves now and everything seems to be ok....so far!

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Old 07-13-2012, 01:11 AM   #260
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Motchick: I don't suppose you're in Australia?

Lots of us are dealing with the square-dance issue right now, and Kobo's apparently 'working on it'.
i'm curious what being aus is to do with it?
just as i had no issues upgrading from not-so-sunny qld.
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Old 07-13-2012, 01:17 AM   #261
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Old 07-13-2012, 01:55 AM   #262
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I seem to be stuck on .17.. It appeared to download the software the last 2 times I synced and asked if I wanted to restart to install the firmware. I clicked on 'install' waited out the restart of my KT and it looks identical to what it was before the sync (ok, maybe some of the recommended books changed). Maybe it's not really downloading the update since I'm in Japan right now? I'll just try again when I return to Hawaii at the end of the month. Anyone else having this problem?
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Old 07-13-2012, 02:17 AM   #263
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Frozen at 17%. In two days I've done two factory resets, one reset with paperclip in that little hole in the back, numerous semi-resets by holding the power slide twice for a few moments til a blue light appears. That seems to get back to normal...if normal is not being able to load any more books. Here goes again.

I've spent at least 10 hours fiddling with my brick, 1 hour reading a good old reliable paperback book.

Was 2.0 really beta-tested?
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Old 07-13-2012, 03:40 AM   #264
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Then I noticed that marking stuff finished doesn't count in the reading stats so then had to open up around 100 books, skim to the end and close so they'd count properly.

Looks like I lost Juggernaut which I've had forever.
Exactly the same experience here on all of those. I've had Juggernaut for three months or so, and that's gone (I'm now at 3% completed), which is annoying.

Far more annoying, though, is the bug that's been in the Touch firmware since the 'Mark as Finished' option was added: that button doesn't change the reading stats. It marks it as finished in the library view, but reading stats doesn't pick up on that. Given that I keep having to either do factory resets or sign-out-sign-ins on the Touch every third firmware release, and it loses all that information every time, fixing that would be really appreciated.
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Old 07-13-2012, 03:48 AM   #265
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HELP. I have just bought a kobo touch, have installed kobo desktop 3.0.0 on my computer and followed the instructions to update the kobo touch. Once I have followed through to the eject stage it begins the update but seems to freeze when on the screen with kobo picture and 5 squares underneath. I really want to try to use this great looking machine but so far have only spent hours trying to be able to load books onto it. Any suggestions? thanks
Weird, but the way I solved this problem was ran through the software of a different computer. Mine uses win 7 64 bit, and the one it worked on was vista. Worked just as it should. Hopefully something Kobo will fix soon as surely there are others out there using win 7 64 bit that are just purchasing a kobo? anyway.... up and running. looks great.
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Old 07-13-2012, 03:52 AM   #266
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HELP. I have just bought a kobo touch, have installed kobo desktop 3.0.0 on my computer and followed the instructions to update the kobo touch. Once I have followed through to the eject stage it begins the update but seems to freeze when on the screen with kobo picture and 5 squares underneath. I really want to try to use this great looking machine but so far have only spent hours trying to be able to load books onto it. Any suggestions? thanks
I tried running through the process on an older computer that is running vista not win 7 64 bit and it worked perfectly. Hopefully kobo will sort out this glich soon, cos surely i'm not the only one on that operating system that has just bought a kobo. Had I not googled and searched for hours on line then i'd have given up! Thanks to all suggestions
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Old 07-13-2012, 04:12 AM   #267
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Has Kobo pulled the 2.0.0 release?

After a day and a half, I finally managed to get my Touch to Factory Reset. Back to v1.9.11.

So, I hooked it up to the Kobo Desktop (3.0, the one just released), and it downloaded the 1.9.17 firmware and updated the Touch to the 1.9.17 firmware.

And, another nice bonus is that the 1.9.17 firmware displays an "updating" screen, so you know what it is doing.
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Old 07-13-2012, 04:30 AM   #268
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My upgrade of v2 is causing problems.
Whenever my Kobo goes to sleep and I re-open the last book I was on - its always 1 page back from where I actually was.

Even worse though is that the 4 books that show when you turn it on seem to be doing some merry dance so the book I am reading is NOT showing up as the main big square and they are all randomly switching.
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Even though I appear to be a 'lucky one' (the upgrade didn't cause me too much grief, I only needed to sign out of kobo and reconnect), I'm not totally happy with the update.

My main (and only) beef is with slow page turning: it now takes about 4-6 seconds for a tap to register and turn a page, whereas it used to be about 1 second.

This is long enough to start doubting that the tap registered at all, and be tempted to try again. And it sure as hell breaks my reading flow.

Does everyone experience this slowness? (I only read side loaded epubs at the moment)
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Old 07-13-2012, 05:28 AM   #270
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Having opened up the 2.0.0 firmware package, the following fonts are included:
  • Amasis
  • Avenir
  • Georgia
  • GillSans
  • Gothic MB101
  • Rockwell
  • Ryumin

There may be some more hidden away, but I can't find them.
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