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bishopdynamics / superbird-tool

Cross-Platform Spotify Car Thing (superbird) hacking toolkit
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Inability to enable burn mode while running in a VM environment. #15

Open JohnSpoAA opened 3 months ago

JohnSpoAA commented 3 months ago

Disclaimer: Fully aware this may just be an innate limitation with running commands through a VM. Only hoping to clear confusion if people are having trouble getting things to work using the same process.

"This is being run on a kali linux VM distro v. 6.6.9-amd64 through VirtualBox v. 7.0.18, the same attempt was made in a generic Ubuntu VM to the same effect.

Steps I've taken:

1: Hold buttons 1 & 4 while powering on to initiate USB mode. 2: run superbird's "--find-device" query. (Receiving confirmation of the device's connection.) 3: run superbird's "--enable_burn_mode", at which point the device fails to repond and force reboots with error:

"Device is not booted to the correct mode! /n need to boot into USB Burn Mode /n Failed to enter USB Burn Mode!"

The device then reboots to the spotify splash screen and displays the adapter warning.

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It's very possible that this is an issue with USB/COM port compatibility from my host machine through the VM."

JohnSpoAA commented 3 months ago

This has since been fixed by running a dual boot into Ubuntu on the host machine itself.