I’ve got my new photon and I was trying to flash binary using particle-cli. I’ve installed all dependencies for Windows. But, I get the following error message when I try to flash system firmware binary in DFU mode:
particle flash --usb system-part1-0.6.2-photon.bin
Found DFU device 2b04:d006
spawning dfu-util -d 2b04:d006 -a 0 -i 0 -s 0x08020000 -D system-part1-0.6.2-photon.bin
dfu-util 0.8
Copyright 2005-2009 Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
Copyright 2010-2014 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
Please report bugs to dfu-util@lists.gnumonks.org
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 = 0x08020000, size = 256040
Download [=========================] 100% 256040 bytes
Download done.
File downloaded successfully
Invalid DFU suffix signature
A valid DFU suffix will be required in a future dfu-util release!!!
Error sending dfu abort request
Error writing firmware...Invalid DFU suffix signature
A valid DFU suffix will be required in a future dfu-util release!!!
Error sending dfu abort request
@ScruffR, I’ve tried updating using particle update, but it showed this error:
particle update
> Your device is ready for a system update.
> This process should take about 30 seconds. Here it goes!
! An error occurred while attempting to update the system firmware of your device:
Invalid DFU suffix signature
A valid DFU suffix will be required in a future dfu-util release!!!
Error sending dfu abort request
I’m using the latest version of particle CLI. How can I solve this error?
Also, I’ve encountered another issue that after setting up the photon using LM to my wifi network, it started breathing magenta and got stuck there only.To be more precise, it flashes green, then rapid blinking cyan and breathe magenta.
EDIT: However, I was able to flash photon_tinker.bin without any issue and photon was breathing cyan.
@ScruffR, I’ve used the command particle flash --usb [firmware].bin to flash binary. The CLI version is 1.24.0. Few minutes before, it wasn’t working. Suddenly started working.
But, commands like particle update, particle keys server, particle keys doctor are still not working.
I’m using dfu-util version 0.8.
I’ve got the binaries from https://github.com/spark/firmware/releases and the version is 0.6.2. I’ve build it by putting them under ..\firmware\modules\photon\system-part1/2 respectively & compiled them using particle compile photon command which was successful.
I was actually asking where you got your own application binary from?
I'd suspect your device is already updated to 0.6.2, so you won't need the system binaries anymore, but your application binary is breaking the device.
Put you device in Listening Mode and post the output of
particle identify
particle serial inspect
And
that's probably due to the lack of OpenSSL being installed on your machine or the system being unable to locate it on your drive.
And the "Invalid DFU suffix" messages can be ignored completely.
This is what you get with Tinker installed and the device breathing cyan before entering Listening Mode?
That’s a surprise, some area seems to be corrupted here.
This smells like a case for @rickkas7
I’m not understanding what’s happening! I hope I haven’t bricked it. How can it not show my device id but run the application code perfectly. This is getting confusing for me!
@ScruffR, today again my photon was misbehaving! I was not able to enter either Listening Mode or Safe Mode! If I try to go into LM, it was flashing Red LED (9 continuous including short & long & then 1 more red). Then I flashed tinker using DFU mode. Now I am able to enter LM, and I tried again these commands in cmd:
particle identify
Your device id is 32001c000747353138383138
Your system firmware version is 0.6.2
particle serial inspect
Platform: 6 - Photon
Modules
Bootloader module #0 - version 100, main location, 16384 bytes max size
Integrity: PASS
Address Range: PASS
Platform: PASS
Dependencies: PASS
System module #1 - version 108, main location, 262144 bytes max size
Integrity: PASS
Address Range: PASS
Platform: PASS
Dependencies: PASS
System module #2 - version 108, main location, 262144 bytes max size
Integrity: PASS
Address Range: PASS
Platform: PASS
Dependencies: PASS
System module #1 - version 108
User module #1 - version 2, main location, 131072 bytes max size
UUID: 2BA4E71E840F596B812003882AAE7CA6496F1590CA4A049310AF76EAF11C943A
Integrity: PASS
Address Range: PASS
Platform: PASS
Dependencies: PASS
System module #2 - version 1
empty - factory location, 131072 bytes max size
It worked, but still can’t enter safe mode.
Thanks.
You have a 0.7.0 boot loader (version 100), but 0.6.2 system firmware (108). This is not a supported combination. You’ll either need to update the device to 0.7.0rc3, or downgrade the boot loader.
To downgrade the boot loader, as long as you can get into listening mode:
particle flash --serial bootloader-0.6.2-photon.bin
! PROTIP: Hold the SETUP button on your device until it blinks blue!
? Press ENTER when your device is blinking BLUE
! serial:
Error writing firmware...Timed out waiting for initial response from device
undefined
particle serial identify
Your device id is undefined
Your system firmware version is 0.6.2
particle serial inspect
! serial: SyntaxError: Unexpected token .
The 0.6.2 system binaries are here, except for the boot loader, which is with the 0.7.0rc3 binaries.
You can flash the system parts in DFU mode (blinking yellow) using --usb if preferred, but you have to downgrade the boot loader using --serial mode. Also, the order is critical, you need to do it in exactly that order and you can’t use particle update instead.
