How to bypass new Kobo setup screen?

[redrob]

[QUOTE=ersanchez;3968157]Thank you so much for this!

Hi
I tried this 3-4 different ways eventually always hitting an enter key to execute but Ive failed so far.

I must be really messing up syntax
rob

[Quoth]

just use a fake or real email address. I used a real one made for Kobo and not a single email in 5 years. A fake one worked too. About 12 kobos setup.

I've used a different email address to recently buy physical ereaders from them.

[mfashby]

Originally Posted by BloodRagg

Assuming that you are a windows user:
1. Connect your Kobo
2. Navigate to KOBOeReader/.kobo, there should be a file name KoboReader.sqlite (copy the link)
3. Download https://sqlite.org/2019/sqlite-tools...86-3280000.zip, and unpack it.
4. Open command prompt in the folder above.
5. sqlite3 (paste the link)
6. copy and paste this: INSERT INTO user(UserID,UserKey) VALUES('1','');
7. type .quit

Awesome thanks for this! Helped me get my books loaded at my granddad's house without WiFi or sorting out tethering ��

Anyone who missed it the database file to open is .kobo/KoboReader.sqlite

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by mfashby

Awesome thanks for this! Helped me get my books loaded at my granddad's house without WiFi or sorting out tethering ��

Anyone who missed it the database file to open is .kobo/KoboReader.sqlite

There is no longer any need to do this. Now all you need is add the following line to the configuration file:
SideloadedMode=true
under [ApplicationPreferences]

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by BloodRagg

Assuming that you are a windows user:
1. Connect your Kobo
2. Navigate to KOBOeReader/.kobo, there should be a file name KoboReader.sqlite (copy the link)
3. Download https://sqlite.org/2019/sqlite-tools...86-3280000.zip, and unpack it.
4. Open command prompt in the folder above.
5. sqlite3 (paste the link)
6. copy and paste this: INSERT INTO user(UserID,UserKey) VALUES('1','');
7. type .quit

Eventually a Kobo firmware update is going to not work with your fake registration and you will lose everything. It's already happened 2 or 3 times.

So don't do it and don't help others to do it!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by mfashby

Awesome thanks for this! Helped me get my books loaded at my granddad's house without WiFi or sorting out tethering ��

Anyone who missed it the database file to open is .kobo/KoboReader.sqlite

Log out and log back in properly or one day everything will be lost. That's a fact. It's already happened to others who have fake registered and it will happen to you.

[JSWolf]

There is NO NEED TO BE SO PARANOID! Kobo does not do anything with your information.

[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

There is no longer any need to do this. Now all you need is add the following line to the configuration file:
SideloadedMode=true
under [ApplicationPreferences]

two questions please:

1. how do I get to that config file on a new kobo?
it's trying to force a new account, or login with old, but won't let me, or use one of many others I don't want to use. and all I see when connected to windows are the connection options. also, calibre won't recognize and no surprise there. just info

2. I currently have two kobos that the ports are going bad on so I really need to configure this new one and another one that is landing 1/3/24 asap. is there a way to just copy the config files from one of my kobos that are pre-configured and stop going in circles with koko's registration process?

thanks in advance for all help offered!!

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by pghaworth

two questions please:

1. how do I get to that config file on a new kobo?
it's trying to force a new account, or login with old, but won't let me, or use one of many others I don't want to use. and all I see when connected to windows are the connection options. also, calibre won't recognize and no surprise there. just info.

You'll get to it on your computer while connected. Not on the Kobo, on the computer. Open the file with a text editor.

[pghaworth]

I have tried everything I know to do and zero works. all I could do was factory reset and prepare to return it. this one, and likely the other one I have coming are defective since I keep getting sent in circles.

if anyone has any thoughts I would love to hear them. thanks.

was able to do step 1. but not step 2.

" Originally Posted by BloodRagg View Post
Assuming that you are a windows user:
1. Connect your Kobo
2. Navigate to KOBOeReader/.kobo, there should be a file name KoboReader.sqlite (copy the link)
3. Download https://sqlite.org/2019/sqlite-tools...86-3280000.zip, and unpack it.
4. Open command prompt in the folder above.
5. sqlite3 (paste the link)
6. copy and paste this: INSERT INTO user(UserID,UserKey) VALUES('1','');
7. type .quit

[Sirtel]

Did you connect the Kobo to your computer and select "Connect" on the Kobo screen? Did it show up as a drive on your computer after that?

[DNSB]

On an new Kobo in setup, try the non-Wifi setup option.

[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Did you connect the Kobo to your computer and select "Connect" on the Kobo screen? Did it show up as a drive on your computer after that?

yes. went through all the steps but it just looped back to the setup screen every time.

never showed as a drive on my pc at any time.

thanks.

[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by DNSB

On an new Kobo in setup, try the non-Wifi setup option.

there was no non-wifi setup offered per se. there was something about "no wifi?", I think.

when I tried to use the option it gave me an option to use the kobo desktop or something like that. that worried me so I either didn't try it or it gave me a code to use online which didn't work.

after that it tried to force wifi every time and then it didn't work at all and just looped.

thanks.

note: I am in very poor health atm so some things are muddled due to my health issues. please excuse errors.

[mfashby]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Log out and log back in properly or one day everything will be lost. That's a fact. It's already happened to others who have fake registered and it will happen to you.

I did that once I had WiFi, all the books I had uploaded from my laptop were still present. Not sure what 'everything' means in this context.

If this is no longer a reasonable way to operate the device offline, thanks for highlighting it hopefully future readers will check these follow up posts.