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[jusmee]

Originally Posted by plib

A return to firmware defaults, a "Factory Reset" in Kobo terminology, is the final "go to hell" option when nothing else works. As such it should be a hardware function, not software, and it should be the simplest possible hardware function - a one button push, not a function which requires a device which is already locked up to recognize that you are pressing/moving two buttons at once. .

Doesn't actually need to do that. See my post above. The hardware reset (paperclip button) restarts the processor at a known memory location, then it tests for the other button to see if a factory reset is required.

[plib]

Originally Posted by jusmee

Doesn't actually need to do that. See my post above. The hardware reset (paperclip button) restarts the processor at a known memory location, then it tests for the other button to see if a factory reset is required.

Umm, no, it doesn't.

On the Kobo the paperclip button is supposed to do a reset back to last known good configuration, or equivalent. The reset to firmware option is to press the Home button and power button simultaneously, which, in my case at least, didn't register. As both these buttons have alternate uses whatever was supposed to register the simultaneous press for a different purpose didn't work. Which only reinforces the point about the firmware reset button needing to be a single function hardware process.

[jusmee]

Originally Posted by plib

Umm, no, it doesn't.

On the Kobo the paperclip button is supposed to do a reset back to last known good configuration, or equivalent. The reset to firmware option is to press the Home button and power button simultaneously, which, in my case at least, didn't register. As both these buttons have alternate uses whatever was supposed to register the simultaneous press for a different purpose didn't work. Which only reinforces the point about the firmware reset button needing to be a single function hardware process.

That's not how I understand it works. "known memory location" has nothing to do with "last known good config". The processor will always start from the same point after a hardware reset (paperclip), it then may choose to alter the defaults to factory before it continues to boot, if it sees the other (home) button is also pressed - but that's AFTER the hardware reset, because a crashed processor cannot do anything.

[plib]

Originally Posted by jusmee

That's not how I understand it works.

RTFM.