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Voxl 2 mini flashing SDK through raspberry pi 5 bricking voxl

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    Hello,
    I'm having a strange issue with trying to flash a voxl 2 mini. I can flash it on my laptop but I'm trying to flash the sdk through a raspberry pi but once it finishes it initial flash it gets to
    [INFO] Waiting for ADB, if this takes more than 1 minute power cycle VOXL

    But when the voxl power cycles it doesn't boot back into adb. The DS2 dark green light stays on and the D2 usb power light stays off. Also it is no longer shows up in "
    fastboot devices"

    When I lsusb I get

    Bus 001 Device 050: ID 05c6:900e Qualcomm, Inc. QUSB_BULK_SN:1D35C79F

    I can hold down the SW1 button and power cycle that puts it back into fastboot mode so its not fully bricked to the point I have to use the switch but then I run into the same issue where I cannot flash it because I get back to the same error, If I run the sdk on my laptop on the same voxl instead of the pi it does work. Nothing in the script looks like it failing and this has happened both with 1.1.2 and 1.4.0 and 1.6.3.

    Any ideas on what may be causing this? It seems like to me the flash is failing silently in some way and preventing the voxl to fully boot but I can't figure out why.

    Thanks,

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    • M mkriesel

      Hello,
      I'm having a strange issue with trying to flash a voxl 2 mini. I can flash it on my laptop but I'm trying to flash the sdk through a raspberry pi but once it finishes it initial flash it gets to
      [INFO] Waiting for ADB, if this takes more than 1 minute power cycle VOXL

      But when the voxl power cycles it doesn't boot back into adb. The DS2 dark green light stays on and the D2 usb power light stays off. Also it is no longer shows up in "
      fastboot devices"

      When I lsusb I get

      Bus 001 Device 050: ID 05c6:900e Qualcomm, Inc. QUSB_BULK_SN:1D35C79F

      I can hold down the SW1 button and power cycle that puts it back into fastboot mode so its not fully bricked to the point I have to use the switch but then I run into the same issue where I cannot flash it because I get back to the same error, If I run the sdk on my laptop on the same voxl instead of the pi it does work. Nothing in the script looks like it failing and this has happened both with 1.1.2 and 1.4.0 and 1.6.3.

      Any ideas on what may be causing this? It seems like to me the flash is failing silently in some way and preventing the voxl to fully boot but I can't figure out why.

      Thanks,

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      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      @mkriesel It's possible the kernel you're flashing is incorrect. Can you provide the full terminal output of the install?

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