Touch Kobo touch Android Installation - I bricked my device :-(

[kobojojo]

Hello,
I wanted to install Android from SD Card on my kobo touch.
I followed the instructions on Angors blog, but now the screen only shows restarting. Also pressing the reset button does not change anything.
I've done a backup before but the kobo does not connect to the computer anymore.
Has anyone an idea how to bring my kobo back to life?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by kobojojo

Hello,
I wanted to install Android from SD Card on my kobo touch.
I followed the instructions on Angors blog, but now the screen only shows restarting. Also pressing the reset button does not change anything.
I've done a backup before but the kobo does not connect to the computer anymore.
Has anyone an idea how to bring my kobo back to life?

If your Touch is a model with an internal uSD card, you can open it up, remove the card and rewrite card with the backup image.

Have you already tried a factory reset (hold the power button for 20 seconds, release the power button, press and hold the home button, hold the power button for a few seconds until the LED turns on, wait for the LED to start flashing rapidly and then release the home button)?

Good luck!
David

[kobojojo]

Hi,
thank you very much for your help.
unfortunately there is no internal sd card in it that can be removed inside my device.
And the factory reset doesn't work as well :-(
do you have another idea?

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[kobojojo]

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that's what it looks like inside my kobo by the way..

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[PeterT]

The Android installation is NOT intended at all for either the original Kobo Touch model (no internal SD card) OR the Kobo Aura (again no internal SD card).

Sorry to say but you are SOL here.

Also while you might have backed up the visible space on the drive via your PC and a USB connection, this only backs up a single partition of the internal storage, and not the partitions where the boot loader and actual O/S reside.

[kobojojo]

so you think there is no possibility to create a connection between the kobo and my computer anymore?

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[OverByter]

I don't see how considering you don't have a working backup and even if you did you don't have anyway of pushing it to the device.
OB

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by kobojojo

so you think there is no possibility to create a connection between the kobo and my computer anymore?

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Correct. In order for the connection to work, the Kobo needs to boot it's internal O/S; not until that IS running can the USB connection to a PC work.

[pazos]

Originally Posted by kobojojo

Hi,
thank you very much for your help.
unfortunately there is no internal sd card in it that can be removed inside my device.
And the factory reset doesn't work as well :-(
do you have another idea?

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You can attach a serial-to-usb to unpopulated pins on your touch's mainboard (more info > http://forum.xcsoar.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1287) and look for messages from uboot. On my kobo mini is impossible to stop the autoboot procedure, so I can't change anything on uboot environment (but the commands to do that are present on the binary)...

Is your last option here, I'm sorry