01-29-2013, 12:29 PM | #271 |
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01-29-2013, 01:42 PM | #272 | |
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You can always convert your MOBI files to EPUBs, you know. |
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01-29-2013, 01:58 PM | #273 | |
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Books: EPUB, PDF and MOBI Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG and TIFF Text: TXT, HTML, XHTML, and RTF Comic Books: CBZ and CBR So MOBIs are officially supported, and they do work sometimes. But they've usually given me headaches on my Glo and my old Touch, anything from stopping the other books I sideloaded with them displaying covers, to crashes and hangs of the kind you're experiencing. My advice is to ditch the MOBIs and see what happens. If you're happy, convert them to EPUBs and re-sideload them. Another word of warning: if the firmware is corrupt because the MOBIs have kept crashing your Glo, you may need to do a factory reset. |
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01-29-2013, 05:17 PM | #274 | |
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But converting MOBIs to EPUBs is extremely easy with calibre, and Kobo's support for EPUBs is of course very good. I recommend opening your Kobo's disk on your PC, sorting your ebooks by filetype, and mercilessly deleting any "forbidden" files. Don't throw away your nice new Glo yet! |
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Yeah I'm not about to get rid of it yet. When I get home in about 15 minutes, I'm going to try overloading it with epubs and see if I can get it to crash (no mobi's at all). That'll tell me if mobi are the problem. If that's the case, I know what my CPUs are doing all day tomorrow... and for the next 36 hours probably Last edited by ironflute; 01-29-2013 at 07:04 PM. |
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01-29-2013, 07:34 PM | #276 |
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Ok I can't get it to crash now with just PDF's, ePub's, CBR/CBZ's, and some RTF's. It *definitely* is the Mobi files.
I've even tried loading it down with about 350 books on first the internal memory and then the MicroSD card. No problems. Now I know. Time to batch convert 2486 files. O_O |
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01-29-2013, 08:29 PM | #278 |
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I've got the bulk convert running. At the rate it's going, it'll finish some time tomorrow during the day, so it's no big deal. I'll just finish reading the hardcopy of the ebook I'm in the middle of.
Thanks for the help. I'll watch this thread and contribute when I can help (and of course follow up when I get the Kobo's MicroSD card loaded successfully). |
01-29-2013, 08:30 PM | #279 |
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You're welcome.
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01-30-2013, 12:36 AM | #280 |
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Having a problem with wifi, now. I can't get it to join a wireless network. I don't get any errors, but it never connects. I've tried WEP, WPA, WPA2, and no encryption. It acts like its connecting, then goes back to the Extras menu (It's trying to join a network when I start the browser). There's no IP address listed, so I know its not associating (or showing up in connected devices in my router).
Anyone else having this problem? Any ideas? |
01-30-2013, 01:05 AM | #281 |
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Any issues with the router? Sure that the DHCP pool has free addresses?
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01-30-2013, 05:32 AM | #282 | |
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Had "fun" this morning, was just about to leave for work and remembered I had noy synched my Glo for a few days and wanted to upload a few new reading achievements. Sync went fine, so I closed the top menu and the area of the screen that shows the book content went completely black. Hit home, went back into the book and the Glo told me my book was 99% read, which was interesting considering I was only on page 63 of 500-odd. Figured I had the chapter bug so went to the table of contents and re-selected the chapter I was on, and it showed one blank page, and still said the book was 99% read. Tried again and this time I got the folded corner icon on the blank page, so hit home, opened another epub and had the same thing, 99% read, all chapters had 1 blank page. CBZ files worked fine though, and after a paperclip reset things started working again. This is my 2nd Glo (first had a screen problem) and to be honest I am past caring about getting it replaced again until a new firmware comes out (officially in the UK) If it's a hardware problem, that's preferable to knowing that Kobo have left us for so long with such a bad piece of software. I took some photo's on my phone, but can't upload them from work. Will do it tonight if anyone is interested. Last edited by Tachikoma; 01-30-2013 at 05:35 AM. |
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01-30-2013, 09:40 AM | #283 | |
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I'm beginning to suspect this is something specific to the browser though since it'll connect when I tell it to sync. Or at least, the sync thinks it completes. I'm not gonna make any guarantees about that, the way things go with this firmware... |
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