remarkable2-recovery VS rmkit

⚠️ Warning: Toltec does not support OS builds newer than 2.15.1.1189. You will soft-brick your device if you install before support is released. See remarkable2-recovery for information on how to recover your device if you have done this.

The option of last resort might be to use the pogo pins to get into recovery mode. There are instructions in the ddvk github repo. https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-recovery

I don't think it's particularly risky to install third-party stuff on your rM2. I would urge you to be very careful to understand the uninstall process, and to understand what it takes to recover it if you do manage to brick your device. TL;DR: you'll need a Linux machine, a USB-C breakout board, and some patience. If you're comfortable with going through that process - even though you shouldn't have to - I'd say you have nothing to worry about.

There's a recovery process that requires some simple and improvisable hardware.

Storage is not encrypted. On an rm2, rather trivial hardware allows the device to be used as USB mass storage. An rm1 can be read without extra hardware. Both of these are explained as recovery methods, but unlike, for example, Android recovery with encrypted storage, where recovery methods usually allow you to overwrite partitions, these allow you to mount existing, unencrypted partitions.

I am new to Toltec and all hackings. After yesterday's official update, I was rushing to re-enable my Toltec without reading the warning. Now my rM2 gets stuck on starting screen. Is recovery tools for reMarkable 2 the only way to unbrick my device? It is beyond my knowledge. I saw there was mentioning a 10k resistor, but it doesn't show on the requirement list.

You have to ssh into it and maybe check if xochitl or rm2fb is disabled. If can't ssh into it, then refer to https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-recovery.

Unless I'm mistaken, the pogo port can be enabled externally by pulling down B8 / SBU2 on the USB-C port. This is why you either need a special plug or a breakout board; ddvk also speculates that you could use a USB audio adapter and headphones.

Hi - I'm considering to jump on ddvk hack but worry if the basic functionality will not be there - like Send to my Remarkable , cloud functionality etc.

https://github.com/rmkit-dev/rmkit/issues/181 This might be of some help! :)

I've found that if I use any of the toltec packages that do things with the screen, like launchers, iago,etc, this happens. When I sat down and debugged it by removing packages one by one it came down to the display package that they all depend on. I think I've filed a bug for it on GitHub. Nope, I mentioned it in a comment in a bug on github.

How do i build other apps on there? for example this app wordlet (https://github.com/rmkit-dev/rmkit/tree/master/src/wordlet)

PS: the source code is here

I'm desperately trying to install Harmony (https://github.com/rmkit-dev/rmkit/tree/master/src/harmony) on my RM2.

I want to download the iago hack to have shapes but it requires lamp and genie, it being a gesture configurator. I downloaded all three but i dont know how to add the config file to create the gesture. Any help would be appreciated

After all of that, I can activate iago by swiping down with three fingers. (The "direction=right" definition allow for you swipe "down" when the tablet is in landscape mode. Basically, genie doesn't know about landscape mode; everything looks like portrait mode to it.) You can, of course, set your own gestures to trigger iago. The genie config file is documented on github.

you can disable remux's power management using a config option (as specified in the README): https://github.com/rmkit-dev/rmkit/tree/master/src/remux, but i think what is happening is due to xochitl powering stuff off.

this is partially addressed in recent versions of remux, but i have not yet merged it into toltec. see https://github.com/rmkit-dev/rmkit/issues/80