Recovery command line tool for Linux hosts

See recovery mode explained to understand which devices this tool applies to.

Download

Depending on host computer architecture - download the following

recovery tool for linux x86_64

• sha256: 0ed19a99935ae6af2c88ba34489501e2bd3aca3f37292b464abab7a0bb9aafc0
• md5: 99cb474185f24cc62fa024ec793c64b4

recovery tool for linux aarch64

• sha256: 0a33e587f72e966ab5c05144bc441c8c0073708d0caf4ba0ceab6f6728a26b44
• md5: 31cc4182913d1b2fdb86cf8936342011

To get access to the Paper Tablet over USB, udev rules may have to be adjusted. The simplest way to accomplish that is to attempt a recovery and use the uuu helper tool to tell you what to do:

# make the recovery tool executable
chmod u+x rm_recover
# with a device in recovery mode - trigger a download of uuu
./rm_recover restore
# figure out where the uuu binary ended up
./rm_recover artifacts
# cd to folder containing uuu and get information from uuu
cd /tmp/reMarkable/data
./uuu -udev
# The output will tell you how to update the udev rules
# something like
sudo sh -c "./uuu -udev > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-uuu.rules"
sudo udevadm control --reload

Use

Restore software on the Paper Tablet

./rm_recover restore

Factory reset the Paper Tablet - reflash software and erase user content

./rm_recover reset

Both of the commands above will cause developer mode to be disabled, if previously enabled.