Photon: dfu-util on Ubuntu fails to flash

Troubleshooting
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Hi there,

I have setted my Photon to DFU mode:
https://docs.particle.io/guide/getting-started/modes/photon

And I am trying to flash this blink example (session Compile Locally, Flash Locally - Over USB):
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/photon-development-guide/all

But my Photon always got back to blinking blue.

Any help/suggestions?

My versions are:

$ uname -a
Linux 3.16.0-62-generic #83~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 26 22:52:39 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ particle help
Welcome to the Particle Command line utility!
Version 1.11.0

$ dfu-util -V
dfu-util 0.9

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$ dfu-util -v -v -d 2b04:d006 -a 0 -i 0 -s 0x080A0000:leave -D blink.bin
dfu-util 0.9

Copyright 2005-2009 Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
Copyright 2010-2016 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
Please report bugs to http://sourceforge.net/p/dfu-util/tickets/

dfu-util: Invalid DFU suffix signature
dfu-util: A valid DFU suffix will be required in a future dfu-util release!!!
Opening DFU capable USB device…
ID 2b04:d006
Run-time device DFU version 011a
Claiming USB DFU Interface…
Setting Alternate Setting #0 …
Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
dfuIDLE, continuing
DFU mode device DFU version 011a
Device returned transfer size 4096
DfuSe interface name: "Internal Flash "
Memory segment at 0x08000000 3 x 16384 = 49152 ®
Memory segment at 0x0800c000 1 x 16384 = 16384 (rew)
Memory segment at 0x08010000 1 x 65536 = 65536 (rew)
Memory segment at 0x08020000 7 x 131072 = 917504 (rew)
Downloading to address = 0x080a0000, size = 2936
Download [ ] 0% 0 bytesErasing page size 131072 at address 0x080a0000, page starting at 0x080a0000
Poll timeout 50 ms
Poll timeout 0 ms
Download from image offset 00000000 to memory 080a0000-080a0b77, size 2936
Poll timeout 50 ms
Poll timeout 0 ms
File downloaded successfully
Poll timeout 50 ms
Poll timeout 0 ms
dfu-util: Error during download get_status

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$ particle flash --usb blink.bin
running dfu-util -l
Found DFU device 2b04:d006
checking file blink.bin
spawning dfu-util -d 2b04:d006 -a 0 -i 0 -s 0x080A0000:leave -D blink.bin
dfu-util 0.9

Copyright 2005-2009 Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
Copyright 2010-2016 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
Please report bugs to http://sourceforge.net/p/dfu-util/tickets/

dfu-util: Invalid DFU suffix signature
dfu-util: A valid DFU suffix will be required in a future dfu-util release!!!
Opening DFU capable USB device…
ID 2b04:d006
Run-time device DFU version 011a
Claiming USB DFU Interface…
Setting Alternate Setting #0 …
Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
dfuIDLE, continuing
DFU mode device DFU version 011a
Device returned transfer size 4096
DfuSe interface name: "Internal Flash "
Downloading to address = 0x080a0000, size = 2936
Download [=========================] 100% 2936 bytes
Download done.
File downloaded successfully
dfu-util: Error during download get_status

Error writing firmware…dfu-util: Invalid DFU suffix signature
dfu-util: A valid DFU suffix will be required in a future dfu-util release!!!

dfu-util: Error during download get_status

4

The above means that it worked. You can safely ignore the dfu-util: Error during download get_status error as that is not a real error.

If your device is still blinking dark blue, then it does not have WiFi credentials yet.

5

@bko,

Yes, I have tryed this too, but my Photon got back to blinking magenta (Safe Mode) and the led D7 did not blink.

6

How did you run make? Did you include the platform option so it knows to build for a Photon? If not, that would give you the kind of thing you are seeing.

Try this with your device in dfu mode:

make PLATFORM=photon APP=blink program-dfu

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@bko,

Yes, as follow below:

cd firmware/main
make PLATFORM=photon clean all
make PLATFORM=photon APP=blink

And after that:

  1. make PLATFORM=photon APP=blink program-dfu
  2. particle flash --usb blink.bin
  3. dfu-util -v -v -d 2b04:d006 -a 0 -i 0 -s 0x080A0000:leave -D blink.bin

But the result is the same

8

This command, with the part in dfu mode, compiles the blink APP and downloads it over dfu, so all the other commands are not needed.

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@bko,

I have tried with another device Photon that I have, it flash normally and worked fine the example “blink”, and does not returned any error like “dfu-util: Error during download get_status”.

Do you know the reason why that happened?

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It might have more recent software that implements the get_status command in DFU mode.

That issue was closed last Sept. in this change: