I've been experiencing similar things. Trying to flash from my Vivid desktop is useless, I never get anywhere, with things failing randomly (and almost always). Flashing from a VM on my Macbook Pro works better, but also fails at random every now and then. That's when trying to flash a Nexus 4.
Cheers, Michi. On 8 Sep 2015, at 1:23 , Pete Woods <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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