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[Michi Henning <michi.henning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <pete.woods@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
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