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Tolino Shine 3 – upgrade if you have installed TWRP

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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

Tolino Shine 3 – 15.3.0 update

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Good news

The adbd binary is the same of 14.1.0:

$ md5sum tolino-1*/ramdisk/sbin/adbd
1d23e203eba05102e6cb642a117b8d64  tolino-14.1.0/ramdisk/sbin/adbd
1d23e203eba05102e6cb642a117b8d64  tolino-15.3.0/ramdisk/sbin/adbd

The direct download link for the new Shine 3 firmware is https://tolinodownload-a.akamaihd.net/ereader/15.3.0/OS44/update.zip.

As a sidenote, you can find the latest Tolino updates on the Tolino website.

Everything documented is still relevant

tolino backup all

Tolino Shine 3: take a full backup

How to, Tolino Shine 3, ,

References

Disclaimer

I am not responsible if you brick / ruin your device in any way. Basic computer skills required. Proceed with caution. I cannot be held responsible if anything goes wrong.

Prerequisites

I’m working on Ubuntu 21.10.

sudo apt install adb

Procedure

  1. temporarily boot into TWRP as described here
  2. choose “Backup”
  3. choose “Select Storage”
  4. “SD Card” and “OK”
  5. mark all tolino backup all

  6. swipe to start the backup procedure

  7. copy the backup on your PC

    adb pull /sdcard1/TWRP
Tolino Shine 3

Tolino Shine 3: TWRP without modifications

How to, Tolino Shine 3,

References

Disclaimer

I am not responsible if you brick / ruin your device in any way. Basic computer skills required. Proceed with caution. I cannot be held responsible if anything goes wrong.

Prerequisites

I’m working on Ubuntu 21.10.

sudo apt install fastboot

Procedure

  1. download TWRP built bu Ryogo-Z https://github.com/Ryogo-Z/tolino_shine3_twrp/releases/download/3.3.1/twrp.img
  2. power off Tolino

  3. on the pc type

    fastboot boot twrp.img

  4. connect usb cable

  5. keep pushed the button for about 30s

  6. on the pc, you’ll see

    $ fastboot boot twrp.img
< waiting for any device >
Sending 'boot.img' (7830 KB)                       OKAY [  0.286s]
Booting                                            OKAY [  0.003s]
Finished. Total time: 0.311s

  7. on the device, you’ll see