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Flash/Rescue SD Card image for PinePhone and PineTab. This is NOT a bootloader
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[Suggestion] Add PinePhone modem firmware flash tools #48

Open PReDiToR opened 3 years ago

PReDiToR commented 3 years ago

To give Biktorg and other community members a standard environment to do firmware flashing with a known OS and toolset, having a button on JumpDrive that drops to a shell to run the install or recovery scripts may be helpful. Even an ncurses or bash menu to automate it.

Having a full stack for networking is beyond the scope of my suggestion, but having a FAT32 partition on the end of the image to copy latest files to may be very little extra work.

Danct12 commented 3 years ago

There's no way this tool can be distributed legally, as the qfirehose utility provided by Quectel is proprietary.

Danct12 commented 3 years ago

CC: @MartijnBraam, what do you think about this?

MartijnBraam commented 3 years ago

Out of scope

aroggeband commented 2 years ago

No need to ship firmware or propietary tools. Too many problems, too much maintenance. Just a stable install of android-tools is a good starter kit.

Danct12 commented 2 years ago

TBH, I don't see a reason why we should add this. People can just boot to a live system (or a Arch Linux Barebone install), download everything needed and install/patch the modem.

Can we please keep this as a simple recovery tool for devices and not a recovery tool for everything connected?

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No need to ship firmware or propietary tools. Too many problems, too much maintenance. Just a stable install of android-tools is a good starter kit.

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