On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Pete Woods <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > I have an early 2011 17" MacBook Pro and one of the earlier Arale devices. > > I've tried a bunch of suggestions to get this Arale flashed. > > I have tried: > > - Flashing normally from Ubuntu > - Flashing using udbflash from OSX > - Flashing from a VMware Ubuntu install > > In terms of hardware I have tried: > > - A whole bunch of different USB cables. The device is now only > visible to my Mac when I use a rather short Anker branded 1ft USB cable. > Any longer than that and it's a no-show. > - USB (2.0) HUB, powered and unpowered. > - All the ports on my MacBook. > - Waiting until the devices are cool (in-case it was some quirky > thermal management thing). > > This also happens with some regularity on my other MediaTek device, the > krillin. However flashing my Mako is totally reliable. > > Some of the highlights of my logs: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12307654/ > > I had to modify udbflash to get useful errors out. Originally it was just > swallowing the standard IO and not reporting it back. But what this reveals > is that: > > - Sometimes "fastboot flash recovery XXX" fails. > - Sometimes "fastboot format cache" fails. > - Sometimes when booting into recovery ADB never connects. However I > can work around this by unplugging and quickly replugging the device when > it gets into recovery. > - The larger UDB file pushes always fail before getting to the end. > The amount of progress they make varies each time. > > I also tried modifying the flash tool to "adb push" the files serially > instead of in parallel, and this didn't help either. > > I have a co-worker who also cannot flash his Krillin in the same manner as > I cannot flash my Arale. This is with an Ubuntu supported Dell laptop. > > As I work on the network indicator, at the moment I cannot debug any > issues present on the Arale, so this is a pretty big deal to me. > > Please help! > > Thanks, Pete > I should add that this previously (a couple of months ago?) was working extremely reliably. I have also had success in the past using the MediaTek flashing tool, although I haven't tried this recently.
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