Reviving a Four-Year-Old reMarkable 2: A Step-by-Step Rescue
Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
After years of neglect, a reMarkable 2 tablet refused to sync or update. The culprit: a wrong clock. Setting the time via SSH unlocked a software update, but the cloud still rejected the old version. Restarting update services fixed that, but the update silently disabled Wi-Fi SSH. The author also found a workaround for broken cloud sync: enabling the tablet's built-in web server to upload files directly. A practical guide for reviving a forgotten e-ink tablet.
Starting with version 3.22 of the software, SSH over wifi is now silently disabled by the update, so port 22 refuses on the LAN.