04-18-2023, 05:05 PM | #31 |
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I got the email yesterday morning (April 17) but I did buy my Forma from Indigo/Chapters to take advantage of the exchange rate, so I guess this means I am now an honorary Canadian! I'll try to live up to the responsibility.
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04-18-2023, 05:20 PM | #32 | |
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If I remember correctly, the newest model listed was the Kobo Forma which was released in Nov., 2018 while the Kobo Libra 2 which was released in Sept., 2019 is not in the list. So at a WEG, if you are running 4.17 or newer, it won't be an issue. The Kobo Mini may be an issue since it's last firmware update was in 2016 but then my Mini is on newer firmware. |
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04-18-2023, 05:28 PM | #33 |
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04-18-2023, 06:40 PM | #34 |
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It does seem a little odd, since a normal factory reset doesn't revert you to the stock firmware; it only erases all your settings. Don't you have to enable devmode in order to do the full factory reset that reverts your firmware and would prevent you from completing the setup?
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04-18-2023, 08:56 PM | #35 | |
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So yes, Kobo is being proactive in this firmware update. |
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04-18-2023, 09:32 PM | #36 | |
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Just to continue this babble fest, I received a second email from Kobo listing devices that will no longer be supported after 2023-May-25:
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04-18-2023, 10:34 PM | #37 | |
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04-18-2023, 10:39 PM | #38 |
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Why do they keep picking on the Kobo Mini? It's newer than the Touch, same age as the Glo and not much older than the Aura HD — and it was on the shelves longer than several other readers that are still supported.
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04-18-2023, 10:54 PM | #40 |
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Just tried updating my oldest Kobo, the Aura HD ... but nothing newer than 4.35.20400 which was already on it.
Either that's the firmware needed, and it's a reminder to folks to update to the latest, or they haven't rolled out whatever the update is yet. |
04-18-2023, 11:01 PM | #41 |
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I suspect that the update either is not being rolled out yet or is being rolled out to a small subset of their customers.
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04-19-2023, 05:01 AM | #42 | |
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04-19-2023, 07:22 AM | #43 | ||
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I'll have to check what firmware my Mini's got. I stopped manually updating it when the display got a little wonky with the notion of leaving well enough alone, but if a manual update to whatever means it would still be able to download books it's probably worth a shot. |
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04-19-2023, 08:28 AM | #44 | |
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When I turned on my eReaders the day Kobo Plus went live, all three devices had a pop up ad over the homepage. If you’ve got WiFi turned off, you won’t likely see them. I posted this pic of the ad on my Mini in another thread, but Tapatalk doesn’t play nice with mobileread, or visa versa. I’ll try again here. The url is good, but MR may not choose to display it for you. If that happens, copy the url and paste it into a browser: Last edited by Cootey; 04-19-2023 at 08:36 AM. |
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04-19-2023, 09:50 AM | #45 |
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