> Am 28.12.2017 um 19:21 schrieb Neil Jerram <[email protected]>: > > Hi Nikolaus, > > Thanks for the detailed instructions here. I think they may have worked for > me, but am not sure - please see more inline below... > > > On 19/12/17 19:40, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> Am 19.12.2017 um 18:51 schrieb Neil Jerram <[email protected]>: >>> >>> On 19/12/17 09:57, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >>>> What you should do: update your U-Boot in NAND. >>>> >>>> To do this, use makesd gta04 / makesd gta04a5 to format >>>> a "production image" SD card (dual partition). Insert >>>> into your GTA04, press the AUX button and insert the >>>> battery. This will flash the new U-Boot into NAND >>>> (red screen) and from that moment on you have this new >>>> feature in your U-Boot and can use the SD card for other >>>> things. >>> Please could give us a reference to more detailed instructions for doing >>> this? I'm sorry, it's a while now since I last worked on my GTA04, but I >>> am very interested to get this improvement in place, so many thanks to you >>> and Andreas. >> Ok, let's try (I hope I did not forget anything): >> >> 1. get an µSD card yo do not need otherwise with at least 2GB >> 2. plug into some SD card reader on a Linux host >> a recent Debian or Ubuntu is recommended >> It could even be the GTA04 if you manage to connect the SD reader through >> OTG and set up WLAN >> I currently use the OMAP5432EVM with Letux-OS >> 3. find out which device name the SD card has (usually something like >> /dev/sdb) >> 4. follow instructions at http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-makesd/ >> >> wget -O makesd >> "http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-makesd.git;a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=makesd"; >> chmod +x makesd >> >> 5. run (change /dev/sdb to your SD card reader if needed) as root >> >> DEV=/dev/sdb makesd gta04 >> >> or >> >> DEV=/dev/sdb makesd gta04a5 >> >> 6. Insert µSD into your GTA04 >> 7. press the AUX button and keep pressed >> 8. insert the battery (well, it should have been charged a little before) > > OK, so I did up to here, but I think I might not have charged my GTA04 enough > first. I believe I did see a red screen; but shortly later I think the phone > ran out of power and died; certainly it did not get as far as showing the > LXDE desktop. > > Since then, I have left the phone plugged in (by a USB cable from my laptop) > for a long time, with the same SD card in place. It has booted to the LXDE > desktop, and my SSHing in I can see that it now has a lot of charge: > > root@letux:~# cat /sys/class/power_supply/bq27000-battery/uevent > POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=bq27000-battery > POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Not charging > POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1 > POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW=4086000 > POWER_SUPPLY_CURRENT_NOW=283815 > POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=93 > POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL=Normal > POWER_SUPPLY_TEMP=284 > POWER_SUPPLY_TIME_TO_EMPTY_NOW=15060 > POWER_SUPPLY_TIME_TO_EMPTY_AVG=14160 > POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion > POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL=1142582 > POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW=1066932 > POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN=1233792 > POWER_SUPPLY_CYCLE_COUNT=89 > POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_NOW=4108440 > POWER_SUPPLY_POWER_AVG=1043900 > POWER_SUPPLY_HEALTH=Good > POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURER=Texas Instruments > > Now, if I do the following procedure ... > > - 'poweroff' (via SSH) > - remove USB cable > - remove battery > - keep AUX button held down > - replace battery > > ... I do not see any red screen. Instead I see the partition order choice > screen (with a blue/green pastoral background), and if I select the first > button, the phone boots to LXDE. > > Does the absence of a red screen mean that the flashing has previously > succeeded?
Yes, the flasher code checks if it is already the right version. > > Many thanks! - Neil > >> 9. GTA04 should boot and the screen should turn red after some seconds >> 10. take out battery and install your old µSD card (if you had one) >> 11. boot as usual >> 12. wipe out the µSD for reflashing if you do not want to store it >> >> If anything fails, please cry for help :) >> >> BR and good luck, >> Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
