Tolino Shine 2HD (tolino-shine2hd)

Features
Flashing
USB Networking	Works
Internal storage
SD card
Battery	Works
Screen	Works
Touchscreen	Works
Multimedia
Camera Flash
Connectivity
WiFi	Works
NFC
Miscellaneous
FDE
USB OTG	Works
HDMI/DP
Sensors
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Haptics
Barometer

Kobo Tolino Shine 2HD
	; Insides
Manufacturer	Kobo
Name	Tolino Shine 2HD
Codename	tolino-shine2hd
Released	2015
Type	ebook reader
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
FOSS bootloader	yes
postmarketOS
Category	testing
Pre-built images	no
Mainline	yes

Contributors

Andi

Users owning this device

Andi
Bastindo (Notes: 4A2 revision with Broadcom WiFi, running pmOS)

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 which are included in linux-firmware-brcm-20230117

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

So basically pull out µSD and connect to your PC and do:

dd if=/dev/sdX of=tolino2-backup.img

replace with something bigger (in reality only the waveform is needed but for simplicity) and do:

dd if=tolino2-backup.img of=/dev/sdX

and then use that sdcard with pmbootstrap install --sdcard

Fastboot

Holding the frontlight button while powering on will give you a short time of fastboot availability on the vendor u-boot. Note: if kernels are booted this way, dtb must be appended and deep sleep will not properly wake up.

Gallery

Tolino Shine 2HD displaying its own wiki page