![]() ![]() You can find your Kobo's serial number by going to Settings > Device Information > Serial Number.Ĥ. You shouldn't need to do this though as the device doesn't rely on the seral number for anything.ģ. ![]() From what I am aware of, the serial number is stored is stored wthin the image and it should be posible to identify and replace the serial number stored in the image. These are taken by resetting their device, removing card and imaging it.Ģ. Many members of the community offer factory images for various Kobo eReaders. I would define an image as a complete copy of the data on the disk, including partitioning (space disk is divided into) and all files on the disk. Are those two completely different things?ġ. kobo directory" one) and now I'm just wondering if I replaced the image or not. The last method did it for me (The "take out the SD card, download firmware and put it in the. I once bricked my Kobo Mini and used Kiwisaurus' Guide on How to Fix a Bricked Kobo eReader ( ) to repair it. If I load an image with the previous owner's serial number onto my SD card, plug it into my Mini, and after it installs do a factory reset, will it go back to my SN or stay with the previous owner's SN?ħ. If you replace an image with, let's say version 3.X and reset, will it go back to 2.X or reboot with whatever's in the SD card?Ħ. The Mini comes with firmware version 2.X. When and why would you need to replace an image?ĥ. ![]() Where do I find my Kobo Mini serial number?Ĥ. When burning an image to your SD card, do you need to edit the serial number so it matches yours?ģ. As in, the, you know, device images the ones you burn onto a disk.Ģ. Now, I have a few questions about images. I am hoping desperately to downgrade the kobo glo HD to or even 3.15.0 to get the "old" home screen back.I'm very new to eReaders and don't know much about technology. ![]() If it helps, I am running macOS Sierra v10.12.5. So please use very simple, "for dummies" language. If anyone would be so kind as to help me with my problem, please understand that I haven't studied coding since I went to uni in the 1990s, and never with macs. I have tried it with the image file provided form one of the mobileread forum members (thank you very much davidfor) and Terminal returns the same "No such file or directory" text. Terminal asked me for my password, which I entered.ĭd: kidkobo.img: No such file or directory. Sudo dd bs=2048 if kidkobo.img of=/dev/disk1 The volume on device "" is not of type Apple_HFS or Apple_UFSĬould not validate source - Device not configured Using Disk Utility, I get the following messages when I try to Restore image: So I have obtained two SD images (one through this forum, one from my children's kobo, which I have saved as kidkobo.img on my mac desktop) but I am having trouble restoring either of these images to my SD card. I worked out I probably needed to reimage my SD card. As a result, after my kobo went into updating mode, it ended up with a mostly black screen with a few white wavy vertical lines. #1 Sharon Jackson 07-21-2017, 11:39 PMI updated to the 4.3.X firmware accidentally (did not realise using pocket via wifi would trigger a firmware update), and then I must have made a mistake while trying to downgrade my firmware to get the old home screen back. ![]()
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