Need help flashing my freerunner for the first time

Adam Jimerson vendion at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 18:49:46 CET 2009


On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Daniel.Li <lida_mail at 163.com> wrote:

> Well, Maybe u can consult this reference. Remove all other usb device
> when u flash the device, I think.
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_the_Neo_FreeRunner
>
> On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 16:15 +0100, Fernando Martins wrote:
> > Adam Jimerson wrote:
> > >
> > > My big problem is that the freerunner stays active for 30 seconds, but
> > > dfu-util takes 3 minutes before it even tries to connect, by this time
> > > it just spits out an error about how it can't find the device.  I am
> > > using the USB cable that came in the OM package, I can deffinitly try
> > > a different USB port, good thing my computer has a lot of those it
> > > seems.  As for the setting menu not working on my phone does this work
> > > in 2008.12?  This now my biggest reason for wanting to flash it,
> > > without access to settings there is not much I can do to it.
> > I'm using dfu-util 0.1 under ubuntu 8.10 and it is instantaneous to
> > detect the FR, most of the times. When it doesn't work immediately, I
> > just restart the connection procedure. At 2nd or 3d try it has worked.
> >
> > Have you tried to connect other usb devices on the same port? Is it
> > recognised immediately by Suse?
> >
> > Fernando
> >
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I got it to show up and I started to back it up but the phone shut off for
being in NOR boot for about 30 minutes, the Freerunner is the only USB
device connected to my computer and I did try other ports before getting it
to work.
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