Upgrade your Kobo Mini ereader
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- How to upgrade your Kobo Mini (and many other kobo ereaders)
First mine came with 2gb but actually had a 4gb card inside with 1.9gb unallocated. you can just expand THAT space for nothing and add nearly 2gb of extra space to your stock kobo.
but we love space so we want MORE I put 16gb into mine
you need this program to expand the partition
www.partitionwi...
and you need this program to create and write the sd card image
www.alexpage.de...
install both follow the above video instructions and your golden!
This is a gem. I have been stuffing around with my kobo mini 2GB for a couple of weeks trying to create a backup of the micro sd card and install an 8GB one. Nothing i tried worked...every backup i tried refused to boot once installed into the kobo mini...until i came across this tutorial. It worked perfectly first go.
Follow tutorial exactly as outlined and your kobo mini will be both backed up and data storage size increased as outlined.
A big thank you
Believe it or not I'm actually doing this very thing in 2022 with my Kobo Mini. I also found a replacement battery and that will be installed in January. Thanks for the very very helpful video. Brilliant stuff lad.
Hey, 2023 modder here! Just bought one with a swollen battery for $20 AUD. Hopefully a new battery fixes my issues with the device not working correctly.
It's still a great little compact travel reader!
Added a 32Gb SD card to my Mini love it ,wish that would come out with mini with a front lit screen
and 300 PPI !
I cant believe it. Tried this on my Kobo Touch N905b using a 8gb mico sd card and it WORKED. Its a little 'laggy' but all functions work. Thanks mate. Update: swapped out SD card for a 16gb class 10 instead and now runs much snappier. Kudos 👌
this worked perfectly to swap a Kobo Glo's simple 2G card to a 16G Samsung card. thanks! and yeah, in the year 2020 i'm still using an old device like that.
This is great! Have you never tried changing the firmware? I can't find a video to walk through putting Koreader firmware onto a Kobo Mini.
I put a 32G micro SD into my kobo mini, it works.
Thank you for your tips.
Thanks for your video, now i can upgrade my Kobo.
That is a cool tip.
I have a Kobo Aura HD. I will try this.
Hi! This video is old! But I will try... I try to follow the video and I destroyed the original SD card. Where can I find the original image to install it on my new 16G SD card? Thanks in advance
does it work on kobo glo (simplest one)? I already downloaded the image
Is there someone who can share his backup image? I didn't do the last update of mine in 2019, I accidently logout, and I can't do anything now ...
no promises. if I find mind (packed for the move a couple years ago) I will try to remember to backup the memory if that is possible. I am not sure if the image is on the SD card or on some internal memory or not.
@@nerys71 thanks, I found a website (don't remember which one) with all the version, I succeeded to make it work again! Thanks for answering :)
tried to clone the original sd card with Paragon and failed , then I found this post, thanks a lot. And failed again with a Sandisk Ultra 64G , then succeeded with a Samsung 16 GB.
Hi Nerys I found your video while I was searching for info about my bricked Kobo mini - it’s stuck on the restarting page after a firmware update
I am getting an SD card reader and new SD card but I am thinking I need a drive image as well.
Any thoughts as to what I might do would be appreciated
hi man I have a kobo mini but the usb image tool doesn't read my kobo memory card when I put it into my computer it gaves me a message to format it what's the solution please
hey I am not able to extend partition(extend is greyed out), I am using free edition. any solution
great video.. thank you sir!
Hi, do you kown if this upgrade are possible on the new kobo aura one ?
Cheers for this! Would this work on Kobo Clara?
hi sir can yo give me the link of kobo img.i cannot open my device anymore
could you please send me the image for the KOBO GLO sd card? I still have the partitions but two of them were formatted by the system, I'll be very grateful
I don't currently have them and I don't know where they are I moved across the country 3 years ago scattered hard drives and a lot of stolen computers during the move
I do have two kobos one modified one not. I can't provide any guarantees it might be next week it might be next 2 years from now but I will try to remember to post the image if I either find it or manage to make another copy
@@nerys71 I would also love access to a kobo mini image if at all possible! I tried to manually update my device, and it got bricked in the process. Would be super grateful!
Omg, thank you!
A Kobo Libra just arrived today. Is there a way to increase the 8GB of storage?
Does it accept any other micro SD cards with more storage? If you know, thanks for replying.
I wish I could help you but I have no idea I did mine by finding instructions online on how to do it I made a video to try to simplify it for other people but I was simply following instructions other people created
Is it possible to expand the stock memory as you demonstrated with the software, utilizing the USB cable (no disassembly required)?
No it does not have USB host functionality only USB slave functionality meaning it can connect to other things but other things cannot connect to it
Well as it turns out my stock is only 2Gb so it's good I had to open it up. Great video. Do you think there is any limit to the size of SD it can handle? As an example, I have an old Samsung Tablet won't support a card greater than 16Gb. Wonder if I can use a spare 32Gb that I have laying around.
Unless they have strangely hard-coated a particular memory size in theory up to 32GB should be safe there are some structure changes past 32 gigabytes that might prevent you from using larger but as long as they didn't do anything weird in theory a 32 gigabyte card should work do not throw away the old to gigabyte card in fact I advise taping it to the inside of the cover when you resemble the eBook reader I have had my cards fail on me in the past rendering it unusable with that to gigabyte card inside there you can reformat and reclone a new card easy peasy think of it as your master never throw it away never delete it
10 mb is allocated for swap
Is the kobo arc memory the same?
tanks dude
Oooo man
what class is your sd card? do you think I can put a class 10 sd card into it?
it does take a class 10, but who knows if there's an increase in speed.
Now I'm having issue with this personally itsvgiving me an error 11
I wish I knew more about them but I don't know what that means
can it upgrade to 128gb?
I would be surprised if I could do that because the 128gb is fundamentally different in architecture it's probably limited to 32 gigabytes but even 3rd to gigabytes would be absolutely insane for a device that small that only reads books that would literally be more books than you could read in your lifetime most likely :-)
hi man how are u doing I think you forget me I still waiting your sulotion for my kobo you told me that next week you will get me some links!!!!! thank u
please if there is no solution send me your kobo image tools it can work with me I think thank u
i am not sure. i have not puttered around with my mini in a while. if time allows sometime in the next week i will try to.reproduce and get yo some links.
+Nerys ok take your times I'm waiting. you know I have two kobo the first one is working the second one memory card is not work I want to copy the first memory card to the second one, thank you for you time it's kind of you.
anyone with an sd card image i can get please
Did you find one