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Thanks for your reply. I have been looking into this option as CC would be a great fit for me, but from what I have seen so far I need to dl the Kobo start menu before koreader, and in order to do this I need to connect my kobo to my laptop with the USB cable! Or is there another way to do this? |
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[QUOTE=GeoffR;3364764]You should be able to use the built-in browser to download from the Calibre content server. It doesn't require any setup itself, but you might need to do something in Windows security settings to allow connections. If there is nothing blocking connections then you just select "Connect/Share > Start Content Server" in Calibre, then select "Connect/Share" again to see the address/port to use, and then enter the address and port in the Glo's browser, e.g. something like 192.168.1.64:8080
Hi and thanks for your reply. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Get the drift?!!! Thanks so much for your help. My main concern was being able to DL my books again to the device and this is a simple fix. |
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I don't have Windows and can't reproduce this problem myself.
If someone is able to reproduce the problem, still able to install mods, and willing to do some potentially dangerous experiments... we could test if exposing the USB device in a different way [as a partition instead of full block device] might help (by changing /usr/local/Kobo/udev/usb script). If there is a volunteer (preferably someone with access to the internal SD card, in case things go really south), send me a PM. Edit: Oh sorry, I see this thread was about Windows 7, should probably have posted in the other one. ( https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=276349 ) Last edited by frostschutz; 08-04-2016 at 05:52 PM. |
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There could be some more exotic options to install the additional software, say from the external uSD card, but not anything I could easily describe. Luck; Ken |
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Supposedly the solution is to reformat the Kobo. But first find a computer it works with to backup the contents. Then reformat and load the backup. If you ever have to do a factory reset you'll need to reformat again.
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I've done that before and it doesn't work. It allows it to work for a short time and then starts acting up again.
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I somehow doubt the Kobo would be able to read NTFS partitions at all in the slightest.
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It was basically that Windows thought that it had a damaged or defective drive that needed to be fixed and it would either not mount it or mount it and then unmount it a minute or two later. But if I had Kobo Desktop running I could mount it through there and Windows would give me no warning messages and it would simply mount in Kobo Desktop, Windows and Calibre with no problem. It could be though that this is a completely different problem than what people are going through with the AU, it's hard to say. |
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If you format it with something strange (anything other than fat32, unless you have a mod that supports different filesystems), the kobo will just factory reset format it back to fat32...
Also you must not put a partition table on it, so if windows or whatever takes it for a USB stick and partitions it, that won't work neither |
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The OP has said that they are using Windows 7, so the problem is not the Windows 10 update.
It sounds more like a cable or USB port fault, it is not uncommon for a damaged cable/port to still be able to be used for charging even though the data connection doesn't work. If it is the port on the Kobo that has the fault then there might not be any complete solution, but as long as it still charges then sideloading using wi-fi or micro-SD will enable the device to continue to be used for reading. |
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The instructions in this post worked for me. Note that you have use the Minitool Partition Wizard Free, because if you use Windows to format you Kobo, it won't work.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...6&postcount=46 |
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Unfortunately, I did this about 5 preview builds back and it broke again a few weeks later so I'm not that optimistic that this is a permanent fix for the problem now that I've done it under the Anniversary release. |
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