Spark CLI Flash problem

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Hi,

I’m running on Windows 7 and I have the DFU driver installed.

dfu-util 0.7

Copyright 2005-2008 Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
Copyright 2010-2012 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
Please report bugs to dfu-util@lists.gnumonks.org

Found DFU: [1d50:607f] devnum=0, cfg=1, intf=0, alt=0, name="@Internal Flash /0x08000000/20001Ka,108001Kg"
Found DFU: [1d50:607f] devnum=0, cfg=1, intf=0, alt=1, name="@SPI Flash : SST25x/0x00000000/512*04Kg"

But when I try to flash

C:> spark flash --usb firmware_1413159038877.bin
Apparently I didn’t find a DFU device? util said
Error writing firmware… no dfu device found.

Ideas?

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Hmm… It looks like dfu-util found the core as they are listed.

Is the Spark-cli the latest version? Check using spark --version and it should be 0.4.1

If it’s not, try to update using npm update -g spark-cli

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If Windows has the driver, but the dfu flash isn’t working, try running the command prompt as an Administrator. :slight_smile:

Thanks!
David

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Spark CLI is version 0.4.1

Retried as Windows Administrator...same result.

Hmmmm

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This is an original kickstart Spark is that could be making a difference.

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I dont think so as both of my kickstarter cores function great!

Can you try this command:

dfu-util -d 1d50:607f -a 0 -s 0x08005000:leave -D core-firmware.bin

Also, just to be sure, the core needs to be in blinking yellow mode.

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Hi Kenneth,

Blinking Yellow. Here are the results:

Copyright 2005-2008 Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
Copyright 2010-2012 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
Please report bugs to dfu-util@lists.gnumonks.org

Filter on vendor = 0x1d50 product = 0x607f
Opening DFU capable USB device... ID 1d50:607f
Run-time device DFU version 011a
Found DFU: [1d50:607f] devnum=0, cfg=1, intf=0, alt=0, name="@Internal Flash  /0x08000000/20*001Ka,108*001Kg"
Claiming USB DFU Interface...
Setting Alternate Setting #0 ...
Determining device status: state = dfuERROR, status = 10
dfuERROR, clearing status
Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
dfuIDLE, continuing
DFU mode device DFU version 011a
Device returned transfer size 1024
core-firmware.bin: No such file or directory
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Hi @dloop

It looks like DFU is working for you now, it just didn’t find the core firmware you were trying to flash (core-firmware.bin in this example, but other .bin files in the examples above.)

Do you have a .bin file from a previous compile that you could test with? Or can you compile a test .bin file up and try that?

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Flashing yellow.

dfu-util -d 1d50:607f -a 0 -s 0x08005000:leave -D firmware_blink.bin

dfu-util 0.7

Filter on vendor = 0x1d50 product = 0x607f
Opening DFU capable USB device... ID 1d50:607f
Run-time device DFU version 011a
Found DFU: [1d50:607f] devnum=0, cfg=1, intf=0, alt=0, name="@Internal Flash  /0x08000000/20*001Ka,108*001Kg"
Claiming USB DFU Interface...
Setting Alternate Setting #0 ...
Determining device status: state = dfuERROR, status = 10
dfuERROR, clearing status
Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
dfuIDLE, continuing
DFU mode device DFU version 011a
Device returned transfer size 1024
No valid DFU suffix signature
Warning: File has no DFU suffix
DfuSe interface name: "Internal Flash  "
Downloading to address = 0x08005000, size = 77216
............................................................................
File downloaded successfully
Transitioning to dfuMANIFEST state
**Error during download get_status**
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Hi @dloop

This is unfortunately a “standard” error that you get every time you use DFU. Basically if you see the … part you are downloading to core and when you get File downloaded successfully you know it was successful.

It short, it worked.

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bko thanks.

So I need to flash this way going forward if I want to use USB, and I can’t use “spark flash --usb”?

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Well yes, you could compile using the CLI to a bin file and then use DFU directly to flash it.

But if you can now run DFU successfully, nothing is really stopping you from using Spark CLI.

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Thanks guys for helping me with this.

For othersL also make sure that dfu-util & libusb-1.0.dll are in path

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