02-21-2022, 08:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-21-2022, 09:10 AM by thechillhacker.)
On my PPP I was finally able to get the WIP4 tow-boot SPI installer to boot by holding down the reset switch and spamming volume down while booting, but when I tell it to install, it fails with:
Error: /dev/mtdblock0 not found
and
spi-nor spi0.0:
unrecognized JEDEC id bytes ff ff ff ff ff ff
spi-nor: probe of spi0.0 failed with -2
Has anyone else seen anything like this? For reference, this is from the first january batch of explorer editions. I would suspect a differing SPI flash chip perhaps due to chip shortages, but the "all ff's" tell me it's probably more likely related to the nasty reset thing I had to do to get it to boot in the first place. Has anyone else had similar issues trying to boot the spi installer, or using it?
Oddly enough, WIP3 installs.. odd... Maybe I can now install WIP4. Will update.
Confirmed. If you have the above errors with WIP4, try doing the following:
With WIP3 loaded SD card in the phone, reinstall battery and hold the reset and volume down buttons while powering up the phone. hold these until you see the Tow-Boot installer. Install WIP3. Then do the same thing with the WIP4 installer, without messing with the reset button.
Now to enjoy the full speed of my PPP, and with the SD card being a home or ext. data partition, as it should be!
Error: /dev/mtdblock0 not found
and
spi-nor spi0.0:
unrecognized JEDEC id bytes ff ff ff ff ff ff
spi-nor: probe of spi0.0 failed with -2
Has anyone else seen anything like this? For reference, this is from the first january batch of explorer editions. I would suspect a differing SPI flash chip perhaps due to chip shortages, but the "all ff's" tell me it's probably more likely related to the nasty reset thing I had to do to get it to boot in the first place. Has anyone else had similar issues trying to boot the spi installer, or using it?
Oddly enough, WIP3 installs.. odd... Maybe I can now install WIP4. Will update.
Confirmed. If you have the above errors with WIP4, try doing the following:
With WIP3 loaded SD card in the phone, reinstall battery and hold the reset and volume down buttons while powering up the phone. hold these until you see the Tow-Boot installer. Install WIP3. Then do the same thing with the WIP4 installer, without messing with the reset button.
Now to enjoy the full speed of my PPP, and with the SD card being a home or ext. data partition, as it should be!
