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One thing which is not clear from your instructions is whether or not the destination card has to be formatted, or just overwritten with a new image - this won't be clear to a layperson I do have a 4GB card in my mini, so it is possible that fat265 had the same. I've found the tools to read and write an image from Windows (plus I got a copy of Ubuntu and Fedora to see what is on the SD card, as windows does not recognise it and asks to format it - this was useful while I was trying to fix the card, but it did not work). I also have a sticker with the S/N inside the device, maybe others have that too. Now I only have to be patient, as the fat265's image is still downloading (it has been doing so for the past three hours or so), and the download message says there are still 6 hours to go! |
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As long as you overwrite the whole card, not only a part of it it doesn't have to be formatted.
Also, if you have a 4GB card you can resize the last partition after writing the image, I guess you'll gain around 1,8GB free space for your books (personally, I don't really need so much space for books but it could be useful as a pocket drive or sth) |
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Having an image on hand is a good back up procedure for the Kobos especially. The S/N
occurs in a number of places starting at offset 200 any hexeditor will let you do a find&replace. OT; but you should know that the current Diskinternals Linux Reader can mount your uSD card as Read/Write. You may still be able to make the corrections you need. Luck; Ken |
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BTW: What is the S/N used for by the software? I mean, besides the model recognition, is it send to my kobo account? |
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You can also make a "hidden" folder to put in sub-folders and files that you don't want Nickel to process, in the extra space. To make a hidden file or folder, on windows for use in a Linux environment, just put a period/dot in front of the name and in back of the name. The dot in back of the name will disappear and you will have your ".name" Linux hidden folder. Luck; Ken |
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On S/N numbers: I read this topic, and freely admit that I did not follow it very well, but the upshot for me was that even if you don't change it everywhere it should not make a difference, i.e. it is only the first occurrence that matters: or did I get this wrong? |
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I changed only the first occurrence in offset 200 (the one even before any partition starts) and in 'device information' i have the right number.
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The SN entry that starts at offset 200 (the first one) is probably all you need to change as it is likely the rest will be rewritten, but a find & replace is not that hard to do. There is no way of knowing what Kobo may decide to do with the firmware, in the future.
Disk Internals Linux Reader can work, but I also have Ext2Fsd running with my SD reader set in the "Ext2 Volume Manager" set to allow read write. Getting it to work can be a little tricky. Luck; Ken |
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Paola, what happened to your Mini ?
I am so marking this thread as one of my favorites, very useful tips, thank you all !! (there are indeed some nice people on the kobo forum, but I guess you find them in the dev sub-forum ). Hope I will not need that, but one never knows. Last edited by aceflor; 08-18-2013 at 11:23 AM. |
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just being a tad too adventurous - I thought I had correctly uninstalled a hack to read in portrait mode, and removed what I thought were "left over" files, but it turns out I had not uninstalled correctly, or maybe something had gone wrong, anyhow now I know what "bricked" means
Thanks to all the good folks here I might be able to remedy my foolishness, and perhaps get a concrete incentive to study linux. I probably felt overconfident as with the Pocketbook there is no manner of hacks I had not installed, but I get the feeling that the Poocketbooks is much more "layman" friendly than the kobo. Anyhow, that'll teach me! |
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yes, of course
How's the rescue going? |
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edit: false alarm, just my pc freaking out ;D
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