DK v1 image problem

[Dowie]

Hi all

Got a strange one here! Ive an eagle and a dream clone and when i upload the DK image to both boxes the boxes go into a reboot cycle after flashing if I put the DW image they both bootup tried to reflash 3 times and re downloaded the image but the same thing happens!

Any help would be great!!

Dowie

[satman]

Hi all

Got a strange one here! Ive an eagle and a dream clone and when i upload the DK image to both boxes the boxes go into a reboot cycle after flashing if I put the DW image they both bootup tried to reflash 3 times and re downloaded the image but the same thing happens!

Any help would be great!!

Dowie

Have you tried doing a flash erase before flashing it?,, ,and then proceed to flash

[Dowie]

Hi Satman

Actually no i havent it just seem strange that its only this image thats affected DW and others are fine!

Does Flash erase not kill the bootloader?

Dowie

[satman]

Hi Satman

Actually no i havent it just seem strange that its only this image thats affected DW and others are fine!

Does Flash erase not kill the bootloader?

Dowie

no,, use dreamup and do a flash-erase first( conect up by serial and connect and click flash erase),,,,,,,,
then try and reflash it,,,


and no, your flash erase aint nothing to do with bootloader that aint part of the flash memory

[Dowie]

Cool

Cheers Satman ill give it a try tonight!!

[Dowie]

Oh no guess what!!
3:18:36 PM box type: DM500
3:18:49 PM Ping result: OK, box is alive and speaking to us ;-)
3:18:55 PM erasing complete flash (without bmon stage of course)...
3:19:05 PM ERROR, flash-erase failed, box will be unusable now!!

What do i do now

[smirnoff_rules]

strange .. can u connect to ftp programe when its working on dw . if u can l send an image u can install in tmp folder and u can do a manual update

[Dowie]

I can flash the box now but it does nothing! Bricked??

Dowie

[smirnoff_rules]

turn off the box and the plug send your firmware over and then turn on at the plug again ,

[Dowie]

Ive sorted it i think!!!

I started from scratch again!!

Erased flash as Satman advised

Sent image over to box

Seems to be working now

Thanks for you help anyway matey!!

Dowie

[Devilfish]

If you have any problems with dreamup or images, do a flash erase TWICE (I know sounds silly but works) then download the firmware from the dream multimedia site and flash that. Once you have a working base, you can flash whatever image you want.

There are also many different versions of dreamup, the dream multimedia site only shows the latest but a google search usually gets you a few older versions which can sometimes help.

[challah]

my guess is the image file is/was still rared/zipped when you tried to flash
dreamup will flash the file but it will not work

[Neil]

download the firmware from the dream multimedia site and flash that.

There are also many different versions of dreamup, the dream multimedia site only shows the latest but a google search usually gets you a few older versions which can sometimes help.

Is that goos advice with all the clone boxes about. Does the latest Dream image not screw up the boot loader of clones?

I can't help thinking that new versions of DreamUp might be used to remove the boot loader from clone boxes as well soon. It might be a good idea to stick with a version from before the clone bombs started.