Freezing Cybook

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by petermillard

Interesting thread. Mine is absolutely fine - bought June this year direct from Bookeen, never freezes - but my wife's (September this year from WHSmith) freezes a lot; as others have said, a simple reset does the job, but it shouldn't be necessary really, should it?

As an aside, are firmware updates really worth the effort? Never bothered with mine, and with the wife's at least we know how to resolve the issue...

Cheers, Pete.

It might even be the version your wife's Cybook is running that's doing it. Being from Sptember, it's probably running build 796, just like mine (I did upgrade). It didn't hang before, or at least not as often. Maybe build 796 is somewhat more prone to subtle filesystem corruption than the previous version(s).

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by mbovenka

I had my Cybook hanging at the second boot screen a number of times, and ended up reflashing with the '796fmt' version (which reformats the internal flash during the upgrade, which the standard version does not) and reformatting my SD card.

It seems to have helped; it hasn't done it since.

I'll try that. might work for me.

[Gaurnim]

Well, for me the latest firmware update (to 796) solved the freezing problem I had with the previous one, so I would say that only for that they are necessary.
They can also bring a few improvements, they are listed on the firmware download page.

[Ivoch]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

but I only get it when I turn it on the first time after charging.

Mine froze like that this morning as well. But just this once, I haven't had any problems with it so far... for the two times I've recharged it.


My firmware is version 802 btw.