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I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by djrogers »

formerly_proven wrote: post #64
judge2020 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's for APs, given pretty much no smartphone has its MAC printed on it.

Oh, true! I thought it was the MAC address in tiny print on iPhones but it's actually the FCC ID and IMEI. On the other hand, all smartphones have the MAC and serial number easily accessible in their settings menu.

> I thought it was the MAC address in tiny print on iPhones but it's actually the FCC ID and IMEI.

iPhones haven't been doing that for years - they have no markings other than the apple logo on the back.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by ansible »

MrGilbert wrote: post #93
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #82

Back in the day “bricked” meant it was actually and permanently about as useful as a brick - no chance of recovery. These days it just seems to mean “can’t boot and can’t be fixed/reflashed easily”. Having to plug a resistor into the device to put it in any sort of recovery mode does walk a very fine line between “not really bricked” and “dude you squeezed water out of a stone, you are a demigod”.

One might call it "soft-bricked".

"soft-bricked" is a common term in some of the Android forums I have frequented in the past.

The Remarkable 2 is very nice, I would like to try one out, though I don't have any immediate use for something like that, except maybe as an e-reader.

I still use paper notebooks, but I rarely need to actually do something with the contents afterwards, other than refer to them occasionally. Maybe if I was more organized...

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by jcun4128 »

greenhathacker wrote: post #119
jcun4128 wrote: post #117

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Are you able to ssh and move files by something like sftp or no? ssh by wire? Was curious what the file format is of each note.

Yep! When you plug it in to your machine through a USB-C cable, it attaches as an ethernet device and answers to `ssh root@10.11.99.1`. You can also activate an http UI that you can then use to upload files with `curl --form "file=@\"$1\"" " http://10.11.99.1/upload "`. If you're curious about the file format, have a look at https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/filesystem#user_data_directo...

thanks a lot for the info

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by jaywalk »

formerly_proven wrote: post #64
judge2020 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's for APs, given pretty much no smartphone has its MAC printed on it.

Oh, true! I thought it was the MAC address in tiny print on iPhones but it's actually the FCC ID and IMEI. On the other hand, all smartphones have the MAC and serial number easily accessible in their settings menu.

You must not have seen an iPhone in quite a while. There is absolutely nothing printed on iPhones these days, all of the regulatory stuff is under the Settings menu.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by scotu »

mariusor wrote: post #112
zhdc1 wrote: post #105

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The Onyx Boox series is really good. The writing experience is almost as good as a Remarkable. The reading experience is excellent, and it's runs Android.

> and it's runs Android I apologize for the snark, but I refuse to see how this is a plus over "it runs vanilla linux".

I would also add that last I heard Onyx was probably violating the GPL if that is a decision factor for anybody reading this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735962

(please correct me if there were more recent developments)

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by bradwood »

myself248 wrote: post #49
unexpected wrote: post #3

This is anxiety-inducing and a good promo for the pinenote!

The Pinenote can't arrive fast enough! I'm sitting on a ReMarkable 2 that I hate because I didn't realize how serious they were about crippling the usefulness of a really beautiful stack of hardware. It's really, Really, REALLY dead-set against letting you do anything useful like use wikipedia or stackoverflow on your ultra-long-battery-life beautiful-display device that you might, I dunno, want to use to look at ref…

Nice -- shill us the Pinenote then!

I'm in the market for an e-ink reader and have been considering the RM2, but the Pinenote looks pretty tasty too..

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by shados »

LegitShady wrote: post #83
Andrex wrote: post #4

Not trying to shill too hard, but it's rare I fall in love with a device the way I've fallen in love with my Remarkable 2. I can't say it was 100% worth the price (half was paid as a gift), but everything about it is refreshingly elegant and simple. Great to know recovering from a brick is possible too.

My problem with it is that I'd rather have an iPad and a cheaper e-reader to get access to many more apps and functions. If it was 1/2 the price it would be at least interesting but I use the iPad to read ebooks, to browse the web, to paint in procreate, to sequence synths and record using an audio interface, to watch YouTube in the kitchen or Netflix in bed, and with a logitech keyboard work on documents in Microsof…

The point of a remarkable is to be an e-ink notebook to write in. It has a few extra features, like, it CAN be used as an e-reader, but it's not really its primary focus.

So with that in mind, an e-ink reader doesn't make for a good writing device, and an ipad is lacking the wacom style e-ink tablet.

Is it overpriced for what it is? Yeah, probably, that's the curse of small batch hardware in the world of Google and Apple.

But an ipad and an e-reader don't really replace it's niche. If you're cool with the writing experience on an ipad, then the Remarkable is essentially useless to you.

Personally, I really, really love my Remarkable 2 (I also had the original, but the 2 is way better).

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by TechBro8615 »

a-dub wrote: post #113
_e wrote: post #99

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Does remarkable use a fork of ChromiumOS? ChromiumOS uses the BOOT-A and BOOT-B partitions for upgrades and it reverts to the previously used boot partition if the OS fails to successfully boot[0]. [0] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...

using two partitions in this way on embedded devices has been a trope for a very long time. service/warranty calls are expensive! usually there are three. system a and system b which are updated and flipped and some sort of emergency recovery that either has a factory image or a very light rom that phones home for a new image.

It sounds like Blue/Green deployments.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by pklausler »

ngai_aku wrote: post #80
pklausler wrote: post #56

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I'm glad that you enjoy yours. Mine has been sitting in my dead technology drawer since about two weeks after it arrived. The pen is too laggy, the contrast is too low for me to read PDFs comfortably, and the note-taking experience doesn't come close to what I get from a good pen and good paper. Nice try, but meh from me.

I’ll take it off your hands if you’d like ;)

I thought about selling or donating it, but I have no way to be confident that I've wiped it of all credentials and content.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by guenthert »

"The USB-C breakout board with the pull down resistor connected on the bread board"

Actually, it isn't. The resistor is in row 16 of the bread board, the cable to the connector is in row 15. I'm sure, you just wanted to test whether we're paying attention.

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