Hello all, I am a newbie in sparkcore. So please excuse me if this sounds a petty issue. I want to do a deep update for the spark firmware as I read on forums that its necessary to do so if you want to get connected to a webpage. However, while doing so I get the following error: Apparently I did…

Make sure you have the DFU driver installed properly if you are on windows or try changing a USB cable. :slight_smile:

Hi @nj187 Sounds like you are using the Spark CLI with this command? spark flash --usb cc3000 If so you also need to make sure you have the DFU driver installed, and DFU-UTIL is installed on your machine. Windows: [image] Tutorial: Installing DFU-Driver on Windows [24 Feb 2015] So it…

Hello BDub, Thank you for a prompt reply. I am using a linux system. And I learned that I have a dfu-util version 0.5 Could that be a problem?

Also, I have the spark-cli installed. But not very sure if I am using it. Could you tell me if there is a certain procedure to use it? Or once its installed, I just us my normal command line? Sorry for this petty query. But I am a bit lost now.

Possibly, since 0.8 is out… and most of the development for Spark has been done with dfu-util 0.7. If you have Homebrew installed… try this: brew update brew upgrade dfu-util Or if on a Linux machine check here for the right setup: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dfu-util

To use Spark-CLI open a terminal and type spark --version to check and see if your version reported is 0.4.4 and if not run sudo npm update -g spark-cli to upgrade it. After that you can put your core into DFU mode and run the deep update: spark flash --usb cc3000

Hi, I get the following now: File downloaded successfully Transitioning to dfuMANIFEST state Error during download get_status Flashed! Not sure about the Error.

Hello, I just checked. And this seems to have worked. I could connect the core again to the cloud. thank you so much. Now my actual task begins. I need to connect to a webpage (.php) which will then via twillio send a message to a number. Could you give me any suggestions/guidance for the same? …

You are going to want to look at http://docs.spark.io/firmware/#communication-tcpclient but I think this would be best done in it’s own thread (for easy searching). Would you mind creating a new topic if you have questions about connecting to a web page? I’m going to make this “solved” for now. Feel…

Yes sure. I will create a new topic. thank you again.

[Solved] Doing deep update

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[Solved] Doing deep update

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