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Pinecil not working - psychedup - 01-15-2021 I received my Pinecil yesterday, which would have been great timing as I have a small soldering project to do this weekend. But sadly it is now not working and i'm not sure what to do... When I first plugged it in, I used this Aukey USB-C power supply, which I often use to keep my PBP charged up. Initially I didn't heat it up yet, but as advised in today's Pine64 News, I decided to update the firmware first. i'm running Gentoo on my PBP and was able to install dfu-utils and the flashing process seemed to go fine. Next I was ready to fire the thing up, so I disconnected it from the PBP and plugged it into the Aukey power supply again, then pushed the button to heat it up. It heated up very quickly, and there was a tiny bit of smoke coming off of the tip - this didn't concern me, since it was its first time getting that hot. Once it got up to temp (like 350 degrees C or something), I turned it off and waited for it to cool back down. It's really nice having the display so I can easily tell when it's safe to put it away. After it had been sitting for a few minutes and was back down to a normalish temperature, the display suddenly turned off. I assumed it went to sleep because I hadn't done anything with it for a while, and i expected once I pushed the buttons it would wake back up, but it did not respond. So I unplugged it for a few seconds and then plugged it back in (to the power brick) and still nothing happened. So next I thought maybe something went wrong with the firmware, I'll try reflashing it. But when I plug it into my PBP, it's no longer detected as a USB device. Here's what I'm seeing now:
RE: Pinecil not working - Ralim - 01-16-2021 (01-15-2021, 07:51 PM)psychedup Wrote: (1) This is normal as the main firmware does not implement USB (so the computer will see no response). (2) The bootloader that you trigger with the "-" is burned into the rom of the MCU so you can erase it (as far as I'm aware). I would suggest trying a different cable / port if you can first (as some cables are not amazing quality, and the mcu isnt amazing usb driving either i suspect). Also, try holding the "-" when you plug it in, and then continue to hold it for 10 seconds or so. On some devices I have found that it can take a bit for the ROM to initalise and set itself up correctly. I have found it helpful to run dmesg -wH to watch dmesg while i connect the unit so i can see whats going on. RE: Pinecil not working - psychedup - 01-16-2021 (01-16-2021, 06:04 AM)Ralim Wrote:(01-15-2021, 07:51 PM)psychedup Wrote: Yeah dmesg -Hw is what I have been watching. I've tried at least 3 different cables, on multiple PC's/SBC's/ports. They seem to detect that something was plugged in, but nothing else shows up, even if I keep "-" held down for 60 seconds. And of course "dfu-util -l" doesn't find anything. RE: Pinecil not working - Ralim - 01-16-2021 What exactly are you seeing in dmesg when you connect the unit holding "-" ? RE: Pinecil not working - psychedup - 01-16-2021 if I connect while holding down "-", nothing at all shows up in dmesg. The only time I see anything in dmesg is if I connect without pressing any buttons, and only after I've left it unplugged for a while. |