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[John McAleely <john.mcaleely@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems possible to me there are several different problems, all
manifesting as 'flashing is unstable'.

FWIW, I flash a *lot* of devices and flash cycles, and on two machines
(Macbook Pro 10,2; Lenovo workstation; both Trusty) my experience is
rock-solid. My experience is dominated by krillin/vegetahd, but I have
flashed a number of arale, nexus and other devices. I use the MTK flashing
tools also, both from Ubuntu (often fails on first flash, fine second and
subsequent) and Windows VMs.

When we've asked for support for this from OEMs, they've struggled to
reproduce the problem(s). Among their engineering teams, the experience is
that flashing via USB works well.

As a community I'd expect us to be more diverse than OEM engineering teams
in our versions of Ubuntu & the kernel in use, and also host hardware
systems. Clearly any problem emerging from that diversity could be on the
host pc or the devices.

So, for those experiencing problems, what versions of host-side software do
you run?

On 8 September 2015 at 14:16, Pawel Stolowski <pawel.stolowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> ubuntu-device-flash has never been reliable for me either. Oftentimes it
> fails to push at some point.  In such case I always wipe all the
> ~/.cache/ubuntuimages contents and after that it works....
>
> Pawel
>
>
> On 08.09.2015 15:02, Kyle Fazzari wrote:
>
>> On 09/07/2015 4:17 PM, Pete Woods wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> That's me. I'm using a Dell M3800 running Ubuntu natively. My u-d-f logs
>> look pretty much identical to Pete's, but I'm using a krillin. I've
>> spent an entire day trying to flash again and again, given up in
>> frustration, and then have it work first try in the morning. It's
>> incredibly unreliable.
>>
>> I've had no trouble using `fastboot boot`, but 99% of the time when I
>> flash with u-d-f it errors out while pushing files. I did try the
>> Mediatek flashing tool and it didn't work any better in my case-- I
>> tried it three or four times, each time failing after getting to a
>> different percentage (never more than 5% or so).
>>
>> This really does seem to have been happening recently, since a few
>> months ago I was able to repartition and flash reliably. I've tried
>> switching out USB cables to no avail.
>>
>> --
>> Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa)
>> Software Engineer
>> Canonical Ltd.
>> kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>>
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