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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
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
Whether pre-built images are available here.
no
Mainline
Instead of a Linux kernel fork, it is possible to run (Close to) Mainline.
yes
Features
Flashing
It is possible to flash the device with pmbootstrap flasher.
Untested
USB Networking
After connecting the device with USB to your PC, you can connect to it via telnet (initramfs) or SSH (booted system).
Works
Battery
Charging and battery level reporting works
Works
Screen
Display works. Ideally with sleep mode and brightness control.
Works
Touchscreen
Works
Connectivity
WiFi
Works
Miscellaneous
FDE
Full disk encryption and unlocking with unl0kr.
Untested
USB OTG
USB On-The-Go or USB-C Role switching
Works


Contributors

  • Andi

Users owning this device

  • Andi
  • Bastindo (Notes: 4A2 revision with Broadcom WiFi, running pmOS)
  • Ozzelot (Notes: 32GB card, 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.

Software

GUIs

AIR

  • A set of customized scripts for AwesomeWM, originally created for the Kobo Clara HD. See here for a version with customizations for the Shine 2HD.

Gallery

See also

Sources