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Old 12-07-2024, 11:07 PM   #1
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Kobo Clara won't start and has blinking white light
Hi! I don't know if this is the right place to discuss this but last night I plugged to connect with my Calibre and found that most of the books I uploaded in the kobo were no longer there.

I decided to restore my back-ups, but now my Kobo Clara won't start. It briefly flashes black and then nothing, except that the light is flashing white.

Can this still be fixed, or did I brick my Kobo?
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Old 12-08-2024, 01:34 AM   #2
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Something similar happened to my Libra 2, I believe the SD card image is corrupted, maybe due to a fault in the SD card. I couldn't revive mine, but you can always pry yours open and ask for the image in the thread in the Kobo forum and try to flash it.
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Old 12-08-2024, 10:00 AM   #3
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Something similar happened to my Libra 2, I believe the SD card image is corrupted, maybe due to a fault in the SD card. I couldn't revive mine, but you can always pry yours open and ask for the image in the thread in the Kobo forum and try to flash it.
Thank you, I've requested. I hope this fixes my kobo!
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Old 12-17-2024, 03:09 AM   #4
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The same thing is happening to my Kobo Clara 2E. I was reading using koreader and then I saw the bomb icon and a message that said that a problem had happened. The debug message said something about not being able to write in a read-only system. Sounded bad.

Now I have that: blank screen, flashing light, no way to recover it. Definitely sounds like a disk/SD card problem.
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Old 12-17-2024, 03:56 PM   #5
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Now I have that: blank screen, flashing light, no way to recover it. Definitely sounds like a disk/SD card problem.
I've PMmed you a link to the Clara 2E image. The usual warning about using a new µSD card since from many reports I've seen, the old µSD card has failed so re-using it is not a good idea.
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Old 12-18-2024, 03:45 AM   #6
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Got it, thanks a lot!
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