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10-19-2012, 06:05 AM | #77 |
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I agree whole heartadly that you should be able to perform a factory reset under any circumstances.
I disagree that they should lose time in preventing people from installing something that's not meant to be used. Plus it would introduce a risk that this control mechanism may go astray, and stop the installation of legit software. This clearly reminds me of computer games DRM, a pain for legal buyers and not even the beginning of a bother for people obtaining them illegally. |
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10-19-2012, 06:15 AM | #78 | |
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kobo3 seems to be Kobo's name for the Touch. Kobo4 is the Glo. So, for the first release with a split firmware, both file names are identical, where before, the file names would have been different. |
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10-19-2012, 06:15 AM | #79 |
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Actually in the Direct Links to Kobo Firmware thread in the Kobo Developer's Corner george.talusan posted a solution. I'm such a techno newbie that I assumed that was what semhoun did but perhaps he came up with his own fix as well - it's all gobbledygook to me!
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10-19-2012, 06:17 AM | #80 | |
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But as long as they're saying there is no reset possibility and if you install the wrong firmware the device's next destination is the bin... in that case they should absolutely make a fail safe. But all in all, I do not believe there is no hard reset option, that would just be stupid. And as semhoun proved for us, there is indeed a way out. I'm confused as to why mdclements would just say it's broken. Oh well. |
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10-19-2012, 06:24 AM | #81 | |
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But it must be true, as the solution to breaking your Glo with the Touch firmware is to find a computer with Linux on it, get a copy of the Glo internal SD card image, do some Liniux shell commands, and rebuild the internal SD card yourself. And to think that all I needed to recover from Kobo's last few authorised releases for the Touch was a bent paperclip. Yup. Modern technology is so much better. |
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10-19-2012, 06:24 AM | #82 | |
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Just like you, I'm very confident in the fact that a factory reset remains possible at any moment. Why a Kobo dev would state otherwise is beyond me. And if, against all my beliefs, there exist such ways as to break the device so bad that a factory reset becomes impossible, this is stupid design indeed. |
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10-19-2012, 06:31 AM | #83 | |
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It's just that you have to press the light button instead of the Home one. No evidence yet as to whether this works, but no proof it doesn't either. |
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10-19-2012, 06:32 AM | #84 |
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I since found the source:
Taming mentions here it: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=2252198 |
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10-19-2012, 08:10 AM | #86 |
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Reset by holding down light button when switching on on glo confirmed here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...5660&page=3#32
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10-19-2012, 08:35 AM | #87 |
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Doesn't that seem backwards? Surely it's the firmware that is device specific that needs to be separately named
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10-19-2012, 09:29 AM | #88 | |
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Reminds me of the classic knock-knock joke: Knock, knock! Who's there? Banana. Knock, knock! Who's there? Banana. Knock, knock! Who's there? Banana. Knock, knock! Who's there? Orange. Orange who? Orange you glad I didn't say "banana"? Only Kobo did it as: Knock, knock! Who's there? Kobo3-1.9.17.zip. Knock, knock! Who's there? Kobo3-2.0.0.zip. Knock, knock! Who's there? Kobo3-2.0.0.zip. Knock, knock! Who's there? Kobo3-2.0.0.zip. Knock, knock! Who's there? Kobo3-2.0.2.zip. Knock, knock! Who's there? Kobo3-2.0.4.zip. Knock, knock! Who's there? Kobo3-2.1.4.zip. Knock, knock! Who's there? Kobo-2.1.5.zip. Kobo-2.1.5.zip who? Orange you glad I'm device specific now? |
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10-19-2012, 09:50 AM | #89 |
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Two changes in Ver 2.1.5 I've noticed that don't really agree with me.
1. There are always 5 books on the Home page under READING, regardless of whether they are finished or being read. In previous versions, once a book was finished and I wasn't reading it anymore, it didn't appear on the Reading Home page. I don't really understand the change logic? 2. No more option to have Powered off screen and Sleep screen different. I found it convenient to quickly see if the unit was off or asleep. ltr |
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