On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 06:50:49PM +0100, Guillaume Salagnac wrote: > I have two FET430UIF on my desk. One of these "accidentally" got loaded with > a V3 firmware and I'm now trying to downgrade it to V2 using mspdebug (ubuntu > 12.10, with mspdebug v0.22 compiled from source). > > Following the "upgrade/downgrade procedure" from the FAQ, I downloaded the > DLL source code from TI (slac460g.zip), patched it with Tamas Tevesz' patch, > and then compiled libmsp430.so. Then I downloaded the UifV3Updater package > from TI, and also obtained a V2 firmware image from my second UIF. Now I want > to follow the steps of the "Downgrade procedure" itself, but I get a weird > behaviour: > > - flashing and running the "uifv3downgrader" often produces various error > messages. Typically, they look like "Interface Communication error (error = > 35)" or "No unused FET found". But if I run mspdebug as root, then sometimes > it seems to work, and I get pretty much the same output as shown on the > website: "Programming new firmware", "X percent done", etc. > > - however, even then, I don't get the exact same behaviour as advertised. > mspdebug doesn't hang, but exits with some more tilib error messages: "Could > not set device Vcc", "device initialization failed". > > - and it looks like the downgrade was not successfull: when I unplug/replug > the FET, it still appears as tty/ACM0, the green led is still on, and > "mspdebug --usb-list" still tells me the device is a "FET430UIF (V3 > firmware)". And obviously I am not able to transfer my V2 image on it. > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong ?
Hi Guillaume, The downgrader image was produced when the first version of the TI library was released. I'm not sure if it's still expected to work with the current firmware and/or library. Perhaps somebody on the list from TI can comment? Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Beer <dlb...@gmail.com> www.dlbeer.co.nz IRC: inittab (Freenode) PGP key: 2048D/160A553B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
