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Originally Posted by rcentros
I'm guessing ADB is required to get to the root of the Tolino?
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Theoretically it's possible without ADB: you'd boot into custom recovery (
fastboot boot twrp.img in bootloader mode) and then either flash a special
update.zip you prepared with the modified
EPubProd.apk or copy the file over and adjust permissions using TWRP's Terminal mode (instead of typing the commands you can run a shell script, files can be copied to the device earlier via USB when it's running normally and connected as a Mass Storage Device).
In this scenario you still need
Fastboot though, and that is part of the same
Platform Tools package as ADB (link to precompiled binaries from Google:
https://dl.google.com/android/reposi...test-linux.zip), so it makes little sense in practice.
Without using either ADB or
Fastboot it's also possible but getting more complicated: you'd have to generate your own OTA certificate, take out the SD card, mount it in Linux, add the certificate to the whitelist, and sign your custom
update.zip with it. This way you can flash the ZIP using stock (standard) recovery.
Or you could just modify the SD card filesystem from within Linux directly. But would still have to take out the SD card from the device first.
Using ADB is the most straightforward way.