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Old 04-03-2012, 08:55 AM   #211
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By now I realized that the unresponsive touch screen area is towards the lower right and lower left corner.
I've noticed this as well. With all the previous firmware versions a gentle tap in the bottom right hand corner always turned the page. With version 17 the same area now offers no response.
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Old 04-03-2012, 09:10 AM   #212
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I agree.

I've moved where I tap a little higher on the right side and have almost no dead taps anymore.
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Old 04-04-2012, 07:05 PM   #213
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Next firmware update should solely be dedicated to getting rid of the book recommendations etc down the bottom of the home screen
That, and also to better bookmarking.
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Old 04-04-2012, 08:00 PM   #214
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That, and also to better bookmarking.
Out of curiousity what would you want in better bookmarking? The dog ears are great for what little bookmarking I do.
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Old 04-05-2012, 01:48 AM   #215
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Out of curiousity what would you want in better bookmarking? The dog ears are great for what little bookmarking I do.
That plus highlighting some text and saving that as a bookmark with or without a note. Other than saving these off the KT, I can't think of anything either.
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Old 04-07-2012, 04:11 AM   #216
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Some people mentioned, that downloading books with the browser makes trouble; I tried with my own protected website I created to easily get files to the KT (upload via mounted ftp-dir in Windows, webpage automatically makes easy-to-tap-on thumbnails for all files in dir) and it works better than before; I downloaded several books of different sizes and I got no freezes or other problems so far. It used to be more flaky with older firmwares (16 and before) where the KT froze on the "processing"-screen although the book usually was already in the library when I hit home to break out. It worked, but meant I had to restart the browser to download further books... I have not tried other webpages or dropbox with fw .17 yet, though...
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Old 04-08-2012, 12:24 PM   #217
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Regarding my error when using Calibre to make changes to my Kobo Touch [would only let me make 1 change at a time before giving me an error].

Wanted to come back and say I got it working again, about 75% of the time anyways. [After trying many things with 5 page thread in Calibre-Devices forum] Here's what "worked" for me:

With Kobo plugged into computer, right click the drive it's in, select properties, then select hardware, select the Kobo, then properties, then policies.
There are 2 options, on mine the first was selected [Optimize for quick removal], I unchecked that, and selected the next option [Optimize for performance].

Hope it might help someone else.
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Old 04-08-2012, 12:32 PM   #218
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There are 2 options, on mine the first was selected [Optimize for quick removal], I unchecked that, and selected the next option [Optimize for performance].
Sorry, but this is a mistake. Despite it making Calibre work.

Optimize for quick removal should be set for removable drives, which the Touch is.

If Optimize for performance is set, you HAVE to dismount the drive each and every time you want to remove the USB from the Touch.
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Old 04-08-2012, 12:56 PM   #219
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Managed to answer part of my question:
It seems Kobo was able to replicate my problem with the browser. They now say my unit is probably OK and I should wait for another update that will hopefully fix the problem. They believe every touch unit probably has the same problem.
I asked if there was any way to revert back to a previous version and have yet to get a reply.
I've been having the same issue with mine since the upgrade. I can click on "Favorites" once.....but if I try to do it again I get a restart......every single time. I've also been having problems with my wifi since the upgrade.....which worked perfectly fine before. Now assuming I can actually get it to connect it takes at least a good 15 minutes.....and makes me select my network every time. Other times it won't connect at all.......and everything else I have that uses wifi is working fine......so I know it's just with the Kobo. Bah.....I got the Kobo as a gift this past November.....and while I do love it......it seems like there's ALWAYS one problem or another :S
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Old 04-09-2012, 06:12 AM   #220
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[*]The browser seems to have been broken. Now it comes up with some nonsense about appearing to be connecting to a public wifi hotspot, then tries to load a "Hotspot web login" page, which never loads, presumably because my home wifi connection is not a public hotspot. It's gained a 'cancel' button, but to be honest, I preferred it when it could actually connect to the network and load web pages. [/LIST]

I'm having the very same problem. It's really annoying because I have to delete the wifi from settings and then reconnect, re-entering the password (long, and annoying, and alphanumeric) every time I want to download a fanfic (often).
It does this when I try to connect to the store too.
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Old 04-09-2012, 09:44 AM   #221
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It seems the WiFi-issue is related to some spezific settings / environment. For me everything related to WiFi continues to work just fine with fw .17...
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Old 04-11-2012, 08:49 AM   #222
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I upgraded from .16 to .17 early this week and have not had any problems since then, other than one instance of the Kobo freezing up when trying to find annotations. Page turns are now working almost all the time and I have no more double tap incidents. I'm quite happy with the improvements from this upgrade.
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Old 04-11-2012, 11:08 AM   #223
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So far with 1.9.17:

- Books seem to open a little slower
- No dead-tap-followed-by-double-page-turn problems
- Still plenty of plain double page turns

The corruption of Awards is still there. Yesterday I got a pop-up award notice for "Unspecified award - Description here".
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Old 04-11-2012, 11:57 AM   #224
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It seems the WiFi-issue is related to some spezific settings / environment. For me everything related to WiFi continues to work just fine with fw .17...
WiFi may be OK but the browser certainly isn't solid in .17. Makes it frustrating having WiFi if a major (although buried in the stock menus) tool that uses it is flakey.
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So far with 1.9.17:

- Books seem to open a little slower
- No dead-tap-followed-by-double-page-turn problems
- Still plenty of plain double page turns

The corruption of Awards is still there. Yesterday I got a pop-up award notice for "Unspecified award - Description here".
Wow! An Unspecified award. :P How special is that?!
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