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Tolino Shine 2HD (tolino-shine2hd)

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Kobo Tolino Shine 2HD
Insides
Insides
Manufacturer Kobo
Name Tolino Shine 2HD
Codename tolino-shine2hd
Released 2015
Hardware
Chipset Freescale i.MX6 SoloLite
CPU 1x 1 GHz Cortex-A9
GPU PXP + EPDC + Vivante
Display 1448x1072 6 inch e-paper
Storage Internal µSD slot with 8GB
Memory 512 MB
Architecture armv7
Software
Original software Tolino firmware based on Android 4.0
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Mainline yes
Features
Flashing
No data
USB Networking
Works
Internal storage
No data
SD card
No data
Battery
Works
Screen
Works
Touchscreen
Works
Multimedia
Camera Flash
No data
Connectivity
WiFi
No data
NFC
No data
Miscellaneous
FDE
No data
USB OTG
Works
HDMI/DP
No data
Sensors
Magnetometer
No data
Ambient Light
No data
Proximity
No data
Hall Effect
No data
Haptics
No data
Barometer
No data


Contributors

  • Andi

Hardware

Wireless

Board revision 37NB-E60QF0+4A3 contains the Realtek RTL8189FTV, a 802.11bgn 2.4G single-chip solution. Using the mainline kernel this is supported by the RTL8189fs branch of this repo. Note this prints a lot of information to dmesg (prefixed with 'RTL871X'). Board revision 37NB-E60QF0+4A2 contains the CyberTan WC121 (BCM43362) SDIO WiFi supported by the brcmfmac mainline driver. That driver has a separate firmware and config file. What works here:

8bc0dd72ffddf22786591169a0f05c948b1024306ba08c8f9d2ca434aa4283cee1da0be6de84750f24d55cd22fbaa79c9f01effd19d202199ce8f2b6f97fb33a /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.bin a6e519c8c497d36e488b301bd07665b911b2f3adb807001513344e3b244d4c9c432b63ef01ac8dc9dad100b8a8fea95ee0b74b8254eb4c5701e71d48228e49a5 /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.kobo,tolino-shine2hd.txt

The latter one is equal to the file /lib/firmware/wc121/nvram.txt on the original sd in /dev/sdXp5

UART

UART (3.3V) is available on J4. This is located near the edge of the PCB on the top right (with the USB at bottom). The default baudrate is 115200 (8N1). There is a second UART next to it (TP198). The other uart-like pin-combinations are connected to other chips, e.g. the MSP430 µC

Installing software

Replacing internal µSD

Internal µSD card can be replaced by something bigger. Favourite way to install software is to clone the SD card and keep the old one as backup or have at least the hidden waveform partition in place. before doing pmbootstrap install


Fastboot

Holding the frontlight button while powering on will give you a short time of fastboot availability. Note: if kernels are booted this may, dtb must be appended.

See also

Sources