Kobo µSD Card Image Requests

[noobyme]

why are there 225 pages on this thread wow. also why do you distribute via pm rather thab having the links public? sorry if u had an answer for that somewhere already but ididnt read through these pages. anyway i had an idea;under firmware information on my nia there is aline saying vb3300, iwoner if that is the vcom value because on the officially repairable models that line is vcom value divided by half,and prefixed vd instead of vb. me wonders if everybody images their sd card and notes their vcom value and uploads it here, thats an alternative way to change vcom value. tho i know auwer called waldy was able to use the firmware of the clara bw,c on a nia with drivers changed and changed the vcom that way before reinstalling og firmware

[PeterT]

Links are not posted publically as it's felt the f/w contains Kobo proprietary code; at least this way there is some control over its distribution.

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[paperinox]

Sorry, I would also need the image of the Kobo Glo to restore it
Thanks in advance

[DNSB]

You may want to redo the image writing with either the recommended USB Duplicator Image Writer tool or Balena Etcher. Several people have reported issues trying to use Win32 Disk Imager.

If you are using a new µSD card and your Glo does not boot after inserting the imaged card and powering on, your Glo has other hardware issues which a new image will not help with. And yes, I strongly suggest using a new µSD card since very often the issue is with the µSD card having issues including having reached the end of it's write life. You can try using the SD Card Association Formatter to do a slow re-format to see if that helps but that is not going to fix any issues with the old µSD card though it may mask them for a while.

As for the disk not being recognized after imaging? As PeterT said, the µSD card after imaging has 3 partitions, 2 Linux ext4 and 1 FAT32. Windows does not recognize an ext4 partition and pops up a request to format the partition. Doing so is a very bad idea.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by noobyme

why are there 225 pages on this thread wow. also why do you distribute via pm rather thab having the links public? sorry if u had an answer for that somewhere already but ididnt read through these pages. anyway i had an idea;under firmware information on my nia there is aline saying vb3300, iwoner if that is the vcom value because on the officially repairable models that line is vcom value divided by half,and prefixed vd instead of vb. me wonders if everybody images their sd card and notes their vcom value and uploads it here, thats an alternative way to change vcom value. tho i know auwer called waldy was able to use the firmware of the clara bw,c on a nia with drivers changed and changed the vcom that way before reinstalling og firmware

There are 225 pages because quite a few people have requested images and when I send images, I post a Pm(s) sent. message to make it easier for me to know when I last sent images.

PeterT has already explain the reasoning behind sending PMs. I agree that no one wishes for Kobo to get upset with MobileRead and sic their lawyers on us.

As for uploading an image here from everyone? That would be a nightmare for me to manage since quite a few people will not have done a factory reset and then copied the files/directories from the FAT32 partition to a directory on their local storage, formatted the FAT32 partition and copied the files/directories back before creating an image and zipping the image.

I went though the relatively few images I have and followed that process after one person who requested an image was wondering about the size of it and when he used some disk forensic tools, found that books, personal information, etc. had survived the imaging process since the FAT32 partition only has the files deleted without a low level format of the entire partition. This data also added, in several cases, gigabytes to the size of the .zip file. After formatting the FAT32 partition and copying the files back before creating the .zip file, the .zip files are a lot smaller and more consistent in size since 30GB of a repeated byte takes little more space than 3GB of a repeated byte.

[DNSB]

PMs sent.

[appretiartis]

Hello everyone,

I hard resetted my Kobo N613 Glo and now I can't get it to work, as it won't connect to the wifi or the PC via cable. Can you send my an image so maybe I can try to make it work?

Thank you

[tracer01!]

Hi I am looking for the SD card image of the Kobo Aura 2. I am not sure which edition, the sd card is 8GB and the motherboard is: 37nb-e60QL0+42B

Kind regards
Mark

[paperinox]

Sorry, I would also need the image of the Kobo Glo to restore it
Thanks in advance

model KOBO GLO N514

[PBruceBE]

Hello,
my kobo clara HD display is stuck /frozen.
I tried to disconnect battery, re-charge and restart: nothing.
Led flashes but no way to reset.
Can someone send me an image of SD card software + instructions to setup ?
thanks

[ricotta]

Hello , can I get the images for

Kobo Libra 2 & Kobo Aura

thanks in advance !

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by appretiartis

Hello everyone,

I hard resetted my Kobo N613 Glo and now I can't get it to work, as it won't connect to the wifi or the PC via cable. Can you send my an image so maybe I can try to make it work?

Thank you

You will need to have Private Messages enabled before you can be sent the link. If you don't see that option in the "Edit Options" of the User control panel, you should post in the Requests to enable Private Messages thread to ask for PMs to be enabled.

Once PMs are enabled, please post again in this thread (Kobo µSD Card Image Requests) to let me know.

[noobyme]

Originally Posted by DNSB

There are 225 pages because quite a few people have requested images and when I send images, I post a Pm(s) sent. message to make it easier for me to know when I last sent images.

PeterT has already explain the reasoning behind sending PMs. I agree that no one wishes for Kobo to get upset with MobileRead and sic their lawyers on us.

As for uploading an image here from everyone? That would be a nightmare for me to manage since quite a few people will not have done a factory reset and then copied the files/directories from the FAT32 partition to a directory on their local storage, formatted the FAT32 partition and copied the files/directories back before creating an image and zipping the image.

I went though the relatively few images I have and followed that process after one person who requested an image was wondering about the size of it and when he used some disk forensic tools, found that books, personal information, etc. had survived the imaging process since the FAT32 partition only has the files deleted without a low level format of the entire partition. This data also added, in several cases, gigabytes to the size of the .zip file. After formatting the FAT32 partition and copying the files back before creating the .zip file, the .zip files are a lot smaller and more consistent in size since 30GB of a repeated byte takes little more space than 3GB of a repeated byte.

i see i thought it may have something to do with legality. thanks for letting me know

[Kirrok]

Hello everyone,

Kobo Glo HD owner, had it sitting in storage for some time and decided to pull it out. Noticed that when I charged it up and booted it everything was still working. Connected the device to my Mac and tried to update and that's where the problems started.

Failed to update via the Desktop app, reset the device and it booted up to the initial setup screen. Attempted to connect to Wi-Fi and each time It connected successfully it popped up with a message "Oops, Something went wrong". Tried both desktop again and on device but no go. Somehow in everything I was doing the "internal" SD Card corrupted and the device no longer mounts on my Mac. It's basically dead - sometimes I can get the entire screen to flash twice but that's it.

I was hoping I could find the SD Image so that I could re-flash the card and see if that brings it back. If that doesn't work I've already decided to get a new one but I just feel like I want to give it this one last try since the hardware may be perfectly good.

Can someone send me a link to the Kobo Glo HD image please?

Any help would be appreciated!

[DNSB]

PM sent.