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Tolino Shine 3 – upgrade if you have installed TWRP

Tolino Shine 3, ,

If have installed TWRP and you want to upgrate to the latest firmware using the official procedure, you have to restore the original recovery.img.

  1. shutdown the device

  2. on the pc extract recovery.img from the update.zip file which contains your current firmware.

    tolino-15.3.0$ unzip update.zip recovery.img

  3. on the pc run the flash command and keep it waiting

    $ fastboot flash recovery recovery.img 
< waiting for any device >

  4. (enter fastboot mode) keep pressed the power up button on the device while inserting the USB cable and in about 25 seconds you should see

    Sending 'recovery' (6474 KB)                       OKAY [  0.245s]
Writing 'recovery'                                 OKAY [  0.906s]
Finished. Total time: 1.170s

  5. reboot the device and now you should be able to upgrade it with the standard procedure

Compile busybox (Magisk) for Android with ndk

Android, How to, ,

Credits

All the credits to topjohnwu and osm0sis.

Prerequisites

I’m working on Ubuntu 21.10, so

$ apt install git google-android-ndk-installer

Instructions

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/topjohnwu/ndk-box-kitchen.git

Follow the instruction, as today are

git clone https://git.busybox.net/busybox/
git clone https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux.git jni/selinux
git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/pcre jni/pcre

Choose the supported busybox version

cd busybox
git checkout 1_34_1
cd ..

Build

/usr/lib/android-ndk/ndk-build all

Push on a device and test

adb push ./obj/local/armeabi-v7a/busybox /data/local/tmp
adb shell chmod 775 /data/local/tmp/busybox
adb shell /data/local/tmp/busybox date
Mon Nov 21 21:08:47 CET 2021

Install as you want, for example

adb shell
cd /data/local/tmp/
mkdir xbin
cd xbin
../busybox --install .
export PATH="$(pwd):$PATH"

Override DNS v5.5.0 released

Android, Override DNS, ,

Changelog for v5.4.1 and v5.5.0.

  • User facing improvements:

    • bugfix start service/enable app Android N
    • added fine location request on O+ to get SSID
    • MainActivity improved
    • bugfix automatic DNS change in Android N
    • Removed Cisco predefined DNS, does not work
    • Added log message when updating SSID list
    • Adaptive icon
    • Added test button when possible
    • Added a dedicated service for Oreo+ versions and a persistent notification (can be switched off)
    • Added “always use iptables” option for N+ Android versions
    • Improved logging: added autoscroll, timestamp, failure reasons, live messages, persistance
    • Fixed rotation problems, ProgressBar, layout for small screens, buttons layout
    • Improved: notifications, app load time, root detection
    • removed Showcaseview library

  • Internal improvements:

    • Better LiveMessage dispatching
    • enable NetworkMonitorService for N+
    • use my setools-android fork as submodule
    • Makefile: use full path for adb
    • Cleanup iptables rules switching to unsupported network
    • Preparing for my DNS tester service
    • Fixed: SELinux detection, Magisk detection, restore button, network disconnections detection
    • Improved: Wi-Fi SSID detection, code style
    • Reduced preferences size, source code, compilation time
    • Simplified mantainability with command templates
    • Disabled StrictMode in release versions
    • Introduced: Gson, ButterKnife

Override DNS v5.4.3 released

Android, Override DNS, ,

Changelog for v5.4.1 and v5.4.3.

  • User facing improvements:

    • bugfix automatic DNS change in Android N
    • Removed Cisco predefined DNS, does not work
    • Added log message when updating SSID list
    • Adaptive icon
    • Added test button when possible
    • Added a dedicated service for Oreo+ versions and a persistent notification (can be switched off)
    • Added “always use iptables” option for N+ Android versions
    • Improved logging: added autoscroll, timestamp, failure reasons, live messages, persistance
    • Fixed rotation problems, ProgressBar, layout for small screens, buttons layout
    • Improved: notifications, app load time, root detection
    • removed Showcaseview library

  • Internal improvements:

    • enable NetworkMonitorService for N+
    • use my setools-android fork as submodule
    • Makefile: use full path for adb
    • Cleanup iptables rules switching to unsupported network
    • Preparing for my DNS tester service
    • Fixed: SELinux detection, Magisk detection, restore button, network disconnections detection
    • Improved: Wi-Fi SSID detection, code style
    • Reduced preferences size, source code, compilation time
    • Simplified mantainability with command templates
    • Disabled StrictMode in release versions
    • Introduced: Gson, ButterKnife

Override DNS v5.4.2 released

Android, Override DNS, ,

Changelog for v5.4.1 and v5.4.2.

  • User facing improvements:

    • Removed Cisco predefined DNS, does not work
    • Added log message when updating SSID list
    • Adaptive icon
    • Added test button when possible
    • Added a dedicated service for Oreo+ versions and a persistent notification (can be switched off)
    • Added “always use iptables” option for N+ Android versions
    • Improved logging: added autoscroll, timestamp, failure reasons, live messages, persistance
    • Fixed rotation problems, ProgressBar, layout for small screens, buttons layout
    • Improved: notifications, app load time, root detection
    • removed Showcaseview library

  • Internal improvements:

    • Cleanup iptables rules switching to unsupported network
    • Preparing for my DNS tester service
    • Fixed: SELinux detection, Magisk detection, restore button, network disconnections detection
    • Improved: Wi-Fi SSID detection, code style
    • Reduced preferences size, source code, compilation time
    • Simplified mantainability with command templates
    • Disabled StrictMode in release versions
    • Introduced: Gson, ButterKnife