WOW that is the best... and most concise list I have ever seen for bring a XO back to life. Congrats
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:49 PM, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > Indeed. Here's my checklist for bringing an old XO back to life: > > 1. charge the battery, > > 2. upgrade the firmware, > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_firmware > > 3. disable security, > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collection_stick > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_key > > 4. run the diagnostics, > ok menu > > 4. set the clock, > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_Clock > > 5. install the operating system, > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes > > 6. clean the keyboard, touchpad, and display, > > 7. tighten the screws, check the battery latch, > > 8. test the wireless antenna, > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Antenna_testing > > Placed on the Wiki: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reuse_checklist > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:29:07PM -0700, Nancie Severs wrote: >> Hi Kevin, Richard, James and all, >> >> You have probably solved this firmware problem already. But for future >> reference I have a suggestion. >> >> When reflashing to one of the newer builds; i.e., 12.1.0 or newer, be sure to >> use a fully charged battery and a plugged in power adapter when reflashing. >> The >> new builds will upgrade the firmware automatically if the battery is fully >> charged. If it is not, during the end of the reflash process it will say >> something like "cannot get new firmware" continuing to update with old >> firmware. If you are not watching the screen you might not see this. >> >> And, I always check the system date and reset it (from the root terminal per >> instructions on the Fix ClockWiki page) before reflashing. That has solved >> the >> "stuck on the grey dots" problem. >> >> Best, >> Nancie >> Nancie Severs >> OLPC Support Volunteer >> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ >> From: James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> >> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT >> laptop.org"" >> <support-g...@lists.laptop.org> >> Cc: XS Devel <Server-devel@lists.laptop.org>; Support Gangsters >> <support-g...@laptop.org> >> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 7:40 PM >> Subject: Re: [support-gang] Attempting to upgrade XO 1.5 firmware. Says >> "activation lease not found" >> >> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:58:45AM -0400, Kevin Cole wrote: >> > Unfixable bug: I'm an idiot, sometimes. >> >> Nah, we're working on it. ;-) >> >> > I don't know if it's typical, but I often find that the USB port on >> > the left side of the screen doesn't seem to work as nicely as the ones >> > on the right. >> > [...] >> > This time less, rushed than yesterday, and armed with suggestions from >> > the list, I tried the same USB thumb drive on the one of the USB ports >> > on the right, and voila: away it went on its reflashing. >> >> There _was_ a problem with older firmware, now fixed, which combined >> with certain USB flash drives (with embedded hubs), would cause them >> not to work in _one_ port on XO-1 or XO-1.5. >> >> Having reflashed to 13.2.0 with external power supplied, that problem >> should have gone. >> >> If not, you may have a damaged USB flash drive or port. >> >> -- >> James Cameron >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/ >> _______________________________________________ >> support-gang mailing list >> support-g...@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> support-gang mailing list >> support-g...@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > support-g...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel