09-14-2012, 05:35 AM | #31 |
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A firmware update, whilst always producing a frisson of anxiety, should not come with the real fear that things will not work properly afterwards.
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09-14-2012, 07:14 AM | #32 | |
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09-14-2012, 09:21 AM | #33 |
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I'm disappointed 2.1.1 seems to include both the wrong-cover-on-sleep bug, and broken italics and diacritics in some fonts, both of which are glaring bugs in 2.0. Still, no complaints about the huge speedup.
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09-14-2012, 09:46 AM | #34 |
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@Stewacide... Have you considered that maybe those are some of the reasons 2.1.1 was NOT released to us...
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09-14-2012, 09:52 AM | #35 |
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I always have that fear when updating firmware, regardless of the device I'm updating. It always induces anxiety when a firmware update takes just a little longer than you were expecting.
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09-14-2012, 10:32 AM | #36 | |
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This is part of the trepidation about upgrading. Based on past experience, some aspect of the reading experience will change for the worse, and the only question is whether it is something that you can live with. |
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09-14-2012, 11:53 AM | #37 |
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I'm with Scooberton. My Touch (before I returned it) was an early one, and even after a couple of firmware updates, it was still unacceptably buggy AFAIC.
Even if the testers at Kobo do have all the production versions to test with, they do not appear to be very good at identifying obvious bugs. Or perhaps the issue is with the decision-makers who elect to release known-problematic versions because identified issues would take too long to fix and re-test. One way or the other, it seems plain that there is a failure somewhere in the management chain. |
09-14-2012, 06:13 PM | #38 |
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I use it and am glad I did! Those slow page turns were a device killer for me. No fun being on a slow boil every time you try to read a book. 2.1.1 is so fast, at times I do not even notice that the page has changed. Cover bug etc. I can live with.
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09-14-2012, 07:07 PM | #39 | |
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They have had a series of firmware updates that have failed out of the gate. Including a very public launch failure in Japan. They have fairly serious bugs being introduced into every release. It is taking at least three months now to get these bugs fixed. Kobo customer support has a reputation of not having a clue (Kobots, anyone?), at least not if you don't use one of the special (and secret) email addresses to complain to (Kobo Executive Care, anyone?). I want Kobo to succeed. I like their hardware, and their software is ok, once you can get past the bugs. But they have to improve their game. |
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09-15-2012, 05:11 AM | #41 | |
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I think that A) they are keeping to a quarterly release schedule regardless, and B) they are going to release the firmware at the same time as the new devices.
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09-15-2012, 11:24 AM | #43 |
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09-15-2012, 12:00 PM | #44 | |
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It works also on a Kobo Touch I purchased for my daughter one month ago, which never ran a firmware prior to 2.0 (I installed firmware 2.0 before I copied any book in order to avoid useless and space-wasting copies of the covers in the .kobo/images directory). The French Dictionary is no longer the inept one included in 2.0, but a more comprehensive Larousse, and language detection now works. I did not experience any crash since I use this firmware. Of course I'm looking forward to 2.1.2, as some bugs of 2.0 are still not corrected: For instance, if you close a book you opened for the first time, the cover of the previous one appears as the device is put in sleep mode. If you light then put to sleep again, the right one appears. It will be reproduced any time you open another book, even if you have opened it before. So it is not caused by, say, a lack of copy of the cover at first. I think this is a programming thoughtlessness. Last edited by Francois_C; 09-15-2012 at 12:16 PM. |
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09-15-2012, 07:25 PM | #45 |
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Well, here's hoping the the public release deals with all the quantifiable bugs, though even a "safe for all" version of 2.1.1 would be about where 2.0 should have been, just cannot believe how 2.0 was ever allowed out of the door with (first release - bricking issues) and in general, some pretty gross regressions.
Correction, I CAN believe, as if it's anything like when I was betatesting a particular software, EVERY betatester was screaming that it wasn't ready, that the RC was not worthy of the name - they released anyway, and the inevitable gripestorm hit the forum, and TBH, a lot of their releases have been too little, too late, not great. |
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