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irc_user0213 · 11-19-2025, 08:26 AM

Thanks to Waldy, I was able to obtain Shine 2HD images (in two versions), but I am finally and officially giving up on trying to revive this very strangely behaving piece of hardware. I have used various Tolino devices over the years (Basic Page & Shine, Vision 1, Vision 6), but firmware-wise, the Shine HD2 seems to be the most unstable of them all. As soon as I managed to power it up with Waldy's images, the power button started to malfunction. Instead of entering sleep mode with one click, it displayed a dialog box with power-off and screenshot options and then became completely unresponsive. I have at least six motherboards scavenged from secondhand devices with broken screens, and every single one behaved the same way. Finally, I resorted to the Kobo Glo HD image, and apart from a few tolerable quirks (you turn up the light by sliding the slider from 0 to 100 a few times), and the fact that it freezes when trying to update, so far I'm happy with it.

11-19-2025, 08:26 AM	#35
irc_user0213 Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2024 Device: Kobo Touch, Sony PRS-350	Thanks to Waldy, I was able to obtain Shine 2HD images (in two versions), but I am finally and officially giving up on trying to revive this very strangely behaving piece of hardware. I have used various Tolino devices over the years (Basic Page & Shine, Vision 1, Vision 6), but firmware-wise, the Shine HD2 seems to be the most unstable of them all. As soon as I managed to power it up with Waldy's images, the power button started to malfunction. Instead of entering sleep mode with one click, it displayed a dialog box with power-off and screenshot options and then became completely unresponsive. I have at least six motherboards scavenged from secondhand devices with broken screens, and every single one behaved the same way. Finally, I resorted to the Kobo Glo HD image, and apart from a few tolerable quirks (you turn up the light by sliding the slider from 0 to 100 a few times), and the fact that it freezes when trying to update, so far I'm happy with it.