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    Since yesterday, when I turned on the Starling drone, it just sits there. It's not getting armed. When I checked for ADB shell, it's not getting connected, and an error comes up saying no devices found. When I checked the forum, it said it might be bricked due to some file loss. We followed the unbrick tutorial, and after successful flashing of the latest QDL M0054.14.1a-flat-v3, the device is showing up as Qualcomm bulk something. However, ADB still isn't getting connected.
    Please note that I am unable to enter adb shell and fast boot mode .

    For unbrick I followed this
    https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-unbricking/

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    • david devassyD david devassy

      Since yesterday, when I turned on the Starling drone, it just sits there. It's not getting armed. When I checked for ADB shell, it's not getting connected, and an error comes up saying no devices found. When I checked the forum, it said it might be bricked due to some file loss. We followed the unbrick tutorial, and after successful flashing of the latest QDL M0054.14.1a-flat-v3, the device is showing up as Qualcomm bulk something. However, ADB still isn't getting connected.
      Please note that I am unable to enter adb shell and fast boot mode .

      For unbrick I followed this
      https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-unbricking/

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      @david-devassy Hi David, we are sorry you are having issues. It does seem like it's bricked. If you follow https://modalai.com/rma you can send it back and we'll see what it would take to bring it back to life.

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        Thanks for the wonderful support from team modal AI. Here is the solution which they have shared with me, which is tested and working 100%.

        Please download the attached file

        file:
        Download this

        Move into the ufs sub directory of that release ^:
        cd 2024-02-09-1.7.4-M0054-2/ufs

        Slide the SW2 switch to ON to be in QDL mode
        Plug in power and USB

        Run:

        sudo qdl --debug --storage ufs --include . prog_firehose_ddr.elf rawprogram_unsparse0.xml rawprogram1.xml rawprogram2.xml rawprogram3.xml rawprogram4.xml rawprogram5.xml patch0.xml patch1.xml patch2.xml patch3.xml patch4.xml patch5.xml

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