[TL-DR at the end]
Hi everybody,
I know I'm a new user on this community and I'm sorry that my first thread will suck as hard as this one is going to. I've lurked in the "Guests" counter for roughly 2 years and registered only today since, as the title suggests, my father in law's Kobo Glo bricked. -I'm a lame person, I know-
:help:
Symptoms:
Screen is frozen like this since two weeks![]()
and it does not change whatever I do.
Here's a video of the behaviour [you'll notice the back of the device is missing, it's irrelevant, but I'll explain why in the post]
http://vimeo.com/fisiofede/koboglobrick
If I try to turn it on (or off, since I don't know where I'm starting) the small LED near the slider glows blue for 10 / 12 seconds, then vanishes.:chinscratch:
If I try to hard reset it, nothing changes [I've tried everything I found on the forum:bookworm: and on maaany blogs online:book2:, hold the light button and flick the slider, hold the slider, hold the light button and release the slider, hold the slider and hit the reset button with a paperclip, hold the reset button and and flick the light button while wondering what the F it means to "flick a button" and any combination thereof] I tried installing Android on the wretched thing and nothing works. I even tried opening the device, pulling the µSD from it, mounting it on a linux box, and restoring the FS partition from the files found in the rescue partition.
NOTHING.
The only thing I didn't try yet is flashing another Image on the SD card, (since I don't have one: the old man never does safety backups with new items unless they're already broken, no matter how many times you tell him to:smack:) SO
TL-DR
As a last resource, I'd need a kind soul to allow me to download their kobo Glo .img, that I'll then dd on the µSD card
:thanks:Thanks a Lot Folks:thanks:
Hi everybody,
I know I'm a new user on this community and I'm sorry that my first thread will suck as hard as this one is going to. I've lurked in the "Guests" counter for roughly 2 years and registered only today since, as the title suggests, my father in law's Kobo Glo bricked. -I'm a lame person, I know-
:help:
Symptoms:
Screen is frozen like this since two weeks
and it does not change whatever I do.
Here's a video of the behaviour [you'll notice the back of the device is missing, it's irrelevant, but I'll explain why in the post]
http://vimeo.com/fisiofede/koboglobrick
If I try to turn it on (or off, since I don't know where I'm starting) the small LED near the slider glows blue for 10 / 12 seconds, then vanishes.:chinscratch:
If I try to hard reset it, nothing changes [I've tried everything I found on the forum:bookworm: and on maaany blogs online:book2:, hold the light button and flick the slider, hold the slider, hold the light button and release the slider, hold the slider and hit the reset button with a paperclip, hold the reset button and and flick the light button while wondering what the F it means to "flick a button" and any combination thereof] I tried installing Android on the wretched thing and nothing works. I even tried opening the device, pulling the µSD from it, mounting it on a linux box, and restoring the FS partition from the files found in the rescue partition.
NOTHING.
The only thing I didn't try yet is flashing another Image on the SD card, (since I don't have one: the old man never does safety backups with new items unless they're already broken, no matter how many times you tell him to:smack:) SO
TL-DR
As a last resource, I'd need a kind soul to allow me to download their kobo Glo .img, that I'll then dd on the µSD card
:thanks:Thanks a Lot Folks:thanks: