Monte Cristo 5 after Factory Reset, no automatic dictionary

[porphyry5]

Originally Posted by Renate

Yeah, but this is one of those "second channel" devices.
It's not listed on https://shop.boox.com/
I don't understand this business model either.

What is the exact name of this?

adb shell getprop ro.product.model
adb shell "getprop | grep finger"

I assume the commands should be run on the device itself, but I have no idea how to get to a command line on it. Not a sophisticated user.

Just in case not, on my laptop the code produces

~ $ adb shell getprop ro.product.model
* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully
error: no devices/emulators found
~ $ adb shell "getprop | grep finger"
error: no devices/emulators found

I also cannot access any of the update sites mentioned in the other posts, all forbidden in one way or another, I suppose all Russian sites are censored here due to the war.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by porphyry5

Just in case not, on my laptop the code produces...

Ok, then you need to go to step #0:

adb devices

Nothing seen? Then you either don't have your device plugged in or else ADB is not enabled.
Google "build number x7" or "enable ADB"

[porphyry5]

Originally Posted by Renate

Ok, then you need to go to step #0:

adb devices

Nothing seen? Then you either don't have your device plugged in or else ADB is not enabled.
Google "build number x7" or "enable ADB"

Yes, having the device plugged into the laptop makes a big difference. My apologies for my blindness.

~ $ adb devices
* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully
List of devices attached
0123456789ABCDEF        device

~ $ adb shell getprop ro.product.model
MC_Cristo5
~ $ adb shell "getprop | grep finger"
[ro.build.fingerprint]: [Onyx/MC_Cristo5/MC_Cristo5:4.4.4/2020-10-15_18-36_2.1.2_3867f11/1382:user/dev-keys]

[Renate]

Ok, well I'm losing track of what we're discussing.
I'm still getting 403 from Russian links and Web Archive is giving me 503!

The US/EU and Russian software and distribution are entirely separate.
Does the Russain software have encryption like the US/EU?
Do you have a URL to query for software updates returning JSON?
Are your updates big (1.5 GB) or small (300 MB)?

[ottischwenk]

The update.upx from here is 369,393 МБ

[Renate]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

The update.upx from here is 369,393 МБ

Oh, thank you.
So it is encrypted, just like the US/EU stuff.
Has anybody extracted the keys?
The MC5 is a newish device, isn't it?
Could somebody look for this file and post it, please?

adb pull /system/lib64/libota_jni.so

(You don't need to be rooted or anything.)

[Renate]

Aw, doesn't anybody have a /system/lib64/libota_jni.so ?

[porphyry5]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

The update.upx from here is 369,393 МБ

I downloaded this file and at the completion of the download, the site declared it was decrypting the file. So keys not necessary?

And is the following then still necessary?

Originally Posted by Renate

Oh, thank you.
So it is encrypted, just like the US/EU stuff.
Has anybody extracted the keys?
The MC5 is a newish device, isn't it?
Could somebody look for this file and post it, please?

adb pull /system/lib64/libota_jni.so

(You don't need to be rooted or anything.)

[Renate]

Originally Posted by porphyry5

I downloaded this file and at the completion of the download, the site declared it was decrypting the file. So keys not necessary?

They are not necessary for your device to decrypt the update to install automatically.

They are necessary for people to decrypt the update so that they may have a stock copy of the boot image for rooting with Magisk.

Originally Posted by porphyry5

And is the following then still necessary?

Yes, please.

[porphyry5]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

The update.upx from here is 369,393 МБ

I sideloaded update.upx to my Monte Cristo Storage folder and started it there. Took about 10 minutes to install. No change in the dictionary access however.

But that is for epubs. Dictionary lookup for pdfs works fine, automatically accessing the same dictionaries that I must access manually when reading an epub.

Correction: problem is solved for epubs too. The update changed a lot of the symbols from those of the original. The first symbol in the menu presented when a word is hilited gives dictionary definition.

My thanks to all for your help.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by porphyry5

Correction: problem is solved...

How about pulling this file? It's only 10-20k.
It will allow others to root their Monte Cristo.

adb pull /system/lib64/libota_jni.so

[porphyry5]

Originally Posted by Renate

How about pulling this file? It's only 10-20k.
It will allow others to root their Monte Cristo.

adb pull /system/lib64/libota_jni.so

Sorry for the slow response. I'm not understanding what I have to do to get this to work.

Presumably the file you're asking for is on my Monte Cristo. I don't know how to open Android file systems with command line commands. The gui file browser thunar does not show /, only

mtp://Onyx_MC_Cristo5_0123456789ABCDEF/Internal storage/

.

Please advise.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by porphyry5

Please advise.

That's MTP which doesn't have access to much.
You need to enable ADB: Build number x7, install driver, etc.

C:\>adb pull /system/lib64/libota_jni.so