08-03-2019, 02:07 AM | #1 |
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Backing up Kobo Touch N905B firmware.
Hi I recently got a second hand Kobo Touch N905B, with it's firmware at 1.9.14 (r34837). I wish to upgrade the firmware, but before I do as a general precaution and for archival purposes, I want to create a backup of the currently installed firmware. As far as I understand it, I will need to enable telnet and such, but I wish to keep the backup as similar to the factory installation as possible. I have read through these posts:
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo_Touch_Hacking https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=338 But it seems that I will need to upgrade my firmware to even enable telnet. Are there any other options to back up my firmware, while keeping the installation as close to the original as possible? Thanks in advance. |
08-03-2019, 02:55 AM | #2 |
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Personally, I wouldn't bother. The factory reset process will restore the firmware if you need to. If you need more than that, take the internal card out and take an image of it. Then you can restore the image if needed.
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08-03-2019, 03:01 AM | #3 |
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I assumed the factory reset will revert to the latest update? Also I don't think the Kobo Touch N905B has an internal SD card.
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The Touch N905B definitely has an internal SD card. If the device you have doesn't, then it is probably the N905. |
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How did you do the factory reset? From the Device info page recently changed to new reset the firmware. That changes with, I think, firmware version 4.15.x. If you used the manual method, it should still completely reset the device.
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Update 1: So, for the strings, there are a whole new set of rm commands which are more specific than rm -rf /mnt/onboard/.kobo. There are also 3 strings: "Signing out...", "Resetting device...", and "Factory resetting...". Update 2: During the new partial reset, it runs mkfs.vfat on the KOBOeReader partition now to reformat it completely. It also removes the external storage directory recursively. Update 3: The full reset remains the same (it triggers it to have it done through the recovery firmware). Update 4: The sign out remains the same (removes .kobo, .kobo-images, .adobe-digital-editions, koboExtStorage, but not the sideloaded books). Update 5 (the last one): The Developer Options reset does trigger the full reset unlike the Device Information one. Also, a bit off topic, but sickel can be enabled/disabled over DBus (com.kobo.watchdog.Sickel/Suspend) (this might interest @NiLuJe). You can also ping sickel with com.kobo.watchdog.Sickel/Ping. Last edited by geek1011; 08-03-2019 at 10:13 AM. |
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