So I powered on using the increasingly familiar reset procedure, put it to sleep and the real cover showed up again and I was able to power on normally. The last time it went to sleep it did not get around to displaying the real cover. So far my Aura HD has always turned on and/or connect, and even when I was getting the message to please format my card to FAT32 it would display the home screen and I could open the books on the card (all of my books are on the card) with no further problems until next time it woke up grumpy.īTW this isn't a Windows message it is a message displayed on the Kobo screen and pressing X or OK would let the reader continue on it's normal way. In 3.0.0 I still have that and when the home screen displays it first display a cover with two outline boxes and the title in the center, then the real covers show up. I have to push the power button at least 3 times to even get it to turn on.Īlso since 2.10 I have been getting a pseudo cover displayed before the real one for about 10 seconds when going to sleep.

Then I let it go to sleep and 1/2 hour later it reset when turning it on. I changed books and it started normally several times, so I thought maybe a book related problem although the book worked on my 2.8.1 mini. (I did not get a file dirty error/must scan error) Luckily it is a very fast reset taking only about 30 seconds. I connected to calibre and it went away only to be replaced with a reset every time I powered on. I kept getting this message every time I opened my reader after updating to 3.0.0. I have already posted on this in another thread (yesterday?)

Well I am lucky in that I seem to get all of the undocumented features. Kobo Desktop can't connect to the device either.Īny advise will be highly appreciated. I already did the pinhole reset (no joy), then restored to factory configuration (and after the resore I was able to see the ereader main memory when connected to the PC until it again auto updated the FW and then the main memory became inaccessible in Windows Explorer). I would not be too worried about this besides the fact that I can't sideload fonts now and Calibre can't read Kobo database (which I assume is located in main memory). Meanwhile the device seems to work fine otherwise - it recognizes ebooks I write to microSD card, I can read books, search Kobo online offerings, etc. The main memory of the device is presented as an unformatted drive and can't be accessed. before you can use it' and I can only see the microSD card content in Windows Explorer. Since then every time I connect it to the computer via USB cable my PC displays 'You need to format disk. After getting access to the Internet Kobo updated itself to FW version 2.10.0. Then I inserted a 32GB microSD card and set Kobo up with acces to my Wi-Fi. When I connected it to my computer after unpacking the computer recognized the device and I could see the KOBO file structure in Windows Explorer just fine. We have found there is an SD card, but the average user will not be able to take advantage of it and expand their memory.I thought it was - See post #25 of this thread, but then I made a mistake connecting to Wi-Fi to install a dictionary and the error is back again. Some reference there is SD card support, while others fail to mention it at all. There has been mixed messages between Kobo and their various marketing channels. As you can see from the picture above, there is an exposed circuit board and can likely result in device failure. It is very important to note that if you decide to take the back cover off your Kobo Glo HD, make sure there is no moisture or dust. Instead, this is a boon for the hacker community that wants to write their own programs and software enhancements for expanded features. Right now it does not seem very likely that users will be able to put their own SD cards into the Kobo Glo HD and have the e-reader function correctly. We also verified that there were no hidden files preventing it from working, but all of the files are clearly visible. We tried cloning the OS and put it on a 2 GB SD and a 16 GB SD and the e-reader failed to boot properly. The Kobo Glo HD does not have any internal memory, the entire operating system and proprietary Kobo files are stored on a 4 GB Sandisk SD card. When we removed the back plate off of the Glo HD we did find an SD Card, but it comes with a catch. When we received our early review unit there was no evidence of an SD card to boost the internal storage, which alienated users who want to store more books. The Kobo Glo HD is a new e-reader and its purpose is to heavily compete against the Amazon Kindle Voyage.

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