Moreover, as always when hacking, you may sometimes risk bricking your device. New Kobo models are released frequently, so all documented hacks do not work for every e-reader, especially hardware hacks.
However, while I have used Kobo e-readers for a decade, I only recently started to explore Kobo’s hacker community.
See Index to the Metazoa firmware patches for more information about firmware patches.Any piece of proprietary hardware eventually spawns a community of hackers. the download link info will be at the lower left corner of your web browser.Īll download links are to official released files at. Hover with your mouse on the download button and make sure you download the right firmware for your device. The firmware download link contains information as Mark (kobo), Date or Affiliate and Firmware Version. This site also has useful charts showing things like versions by affiliate and version availability by device. It can also show the firmware versions for different affiliates, a list of all released versions for each device, all in one page. You must install the whole package (upgrade, KoboRoot.tgz, manifest.md5sum).Īlso see Kobo Firmware Downloads for the latest official firmware and changelog links, automatically updated directly from Kobo servers. Manually Install Firmware Guide use it at your own risk. It can take a month before everyone around the world sees the firmware update. Kobo does not release the firmware to everyone at the same time Kobo release based on the Affiliate and the IP address. The second version is incompatible with the Mark 6 packages due to a different CPU and they can be identified by checking if the 7th digit of the serial number is a 2. Important Note: The Kobo Aura Edition 2 and Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2 have two versions. However this is not guaranteed and you should read the associated discussion thread carefully before potentially bricking your device. Officially a given release may only be for select devices but unofficially other devices with the same hardware version may also work. There are separate firmware downloads for each hardware version.
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