Tolino Shine Firmware 10.5.0 Rooted

Introduction

Getting my hands on a used Tolino Shine e-Book reader i got curious about the internals. After some research I found that there have been successful attempts to root and adb the device as extensively documented by @hecke in multiple blog posts [1, 2, 3]. Following his steps it was easy to update my device version 1.0.1 to 1.9.0. However after connecting my Tolino to the internet I was greeted with a (pretty naggy) forced update screen blocking all fuctionality. That is when I decided to edit the actual firmware to not loose ADB & root access.

Steps

1. Download the current firmware 10.5.0 from the Tolino Website.
2. Extract the firmware.
3. Apply the free-tolino-10.5.0.patch file.
4. copy su & adbd to ./system/bin/.
5. Zip the firmware back up.
6. Sign the firmware with the android test key .
7. Upload the firmware to the SD-card and reboot the Tolino.

Attention

This will remove the tolino public key and replace it with the android test one. As I will give this device (modded) to a elderly relative I do not want them to accidentally update it via the Tolino update service and possibly locking us out again.

I recomend everyone attempting to do the same to read through @hecke's blog posts!

Why don't I update the test-key signed firmware? Copyright. It contains copyrighted material I will not remove and I do not have the time or passion to deal with DCMA requests.

[1] hecke, 'collected: shiny ADB and root – the f*c**@! (:=easy) way', 26-06-2013
[2] hecke, 'collected: shiny new update keys for 1.2.4', 24-10-2013
[3] hecke, 'Tolino Shine – update 1.9.0 with adbd and testkeys', 26-02-2017