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[Pete Woods <pete.woods@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Pete Woods <pete.woods@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.