Firmwares 4.39.23027 and 4.38.23038

[Haesslich]

Originally Posted by PeterT

This is meant to include a fix for the database corruption issue.

Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk

Oh hell, I just hash that happen yesterday. My new Libra Colour stopped being able to sync, and I just wiped it to start fresh.

I could've saved myself the effort of they'd released it sooner.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Haesslich

Oh hell, I just hash that happen yesterday. My new Libra Colour stopped being able to sync, and I just wiped it to start fresh.

I could've saved myself the effort of they'd released it sooner.

Note that this helps with the issue where the database was not properly closed before the USB connection. One very noticeable symptom was the presence of *.sqlite-wal and *.sqlite-shm (WAL for write-ahead logging and SHM for shared memory) files in the .kobo directory after the connection.

You can still corrupt the database by not safely ejecting, having a flakey USB cable, etc.

[ghira]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood.

I probably wasn't very clear.

[JSWolf]

I wonder when the older Kobos will get 4.39. Usually new devices come out with a newer firmware, a firmware release comes out for the new devices and then another firmware for all devices.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by ghira

I know. I have. Manual syncing never ever works though. I even left it running for 48 hours once to see if it would eventually finish. No.

Do you have a lot of collections, or some empty collections?

[ghira]

Originally Posted by meeera

Do you have a lot of collections, or some empty collections?

I have 35 screens of collections. I guess that's a lot. Maybe 1-2 of them are currently empty.

[mathil]

Originally Posted by ghira

I have 35 screens of collections. I guess that's a lot. Maybe 1-2 of them are currently empty.

You should check that the collections on your Kobo correspond to those present on your Kobo account. If there's a difference syncing will hang. I had the same issue for years until I deleted all of the collections manually on my Kobo and my Kobo account (using the app). I synced and then everything worked properly. If you use Calibre recreating your collections afterwards is very easy.

[Calenorn]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

the cleaner home screen with larger covers is tempting.

Setting Large Print Mode (in Beta Features) to 140% improves the Home Screen nicely. No patches required.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Calenorn

Setting Large Print Mode (in Beta Features) to 140% improves the Home Screen nicely. No patches required.

But won't that impact the UI everywhere?

[Calenorn]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

But won't that impact the UI everywhere?

I think so. But I find that it generally makes a 6-inch screen easier for me to use. Less busy; easier to touch the correct item. And of course it has no effect when reading.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by ghira

I have 35 screens of collections. I guess that's a lot. Maybe 1-2 of them are currently empty.

Yep, what mathil said: try nuking your collections, then sync.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I wonder when the older Kobos will get 4.39. Usually new devices come out with a newer firmware, a firmware release comes out for the new devices and then another firmware for all devices.

Probably never. You did notice that the 4.38 firmware is 11 builds ahead of the 4.39 firmware? I tend to the belief that the next unified firmware for Kobo ereaders will be a v5 firmware for Kobo and tolino ereaders.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ghira

I have 35 screens of collections. I guess that's a lot. Maybe 1-2 of them are currently empty.

Sounds like where I was years back when I had over 200 collections. I ended up nuking my collections since it was simply easier to use search than paging through 40 or so pages of collections to locate my next read.

[Haplo65]

New firmware install on my HD GLO : no issue so far

[slantybard]

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