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Update Tizen device from 2.1 to 2.2

Hello,

I'm trying to update a Tizen device from 2.1 to 2.2. I was sent to this https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Flash_Tizen_2.2_Image_to_Reference_Device but where do I get the lthor Windows utility to load the image to the device? Read somewhere there's a 1-click tool for Windows but couldn't find it anywhere.

Your help will be appreciated.

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Marco Buettner

http://scidev.eu/downloads/RD_PQ_REF_RSA_2_2_0_RC11_WiFi.zip

Bruno Magalhaes

Thank you for sharing

Alfredo Ramirez

All right Marco, downloaded and unzipped the zip, device in download mode but, now what? I mean utility (lthor) is just a window with empty fields and a start button that does nothing when clicked tried on both Windows 7 and 8 machines but no result on both.

Need advice please!

Thank you! Your help will be appreciated.

Marco Buettner

you have to start the downlosf mode

Peter Wegner

Ehm.

Start button is normally all, what you have to press.

You have proper Driver installed?

You play with 64 bit or 32 bit Windows? Because I have only short tested with 32 bit XP... without device...

Btw... without attached device Start deliver this as answer:

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)


Best Regards

Bruno Magalhaes

Follow this guide https://developer.tizen.org/blogs/staudejulio/2013/guide-first-time-your-new-tizen-sdp-drivers-and-certificate to install drivers for windows

Read the instructions at https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Flash_Tizen_2.2_Image_to_Reference_Device

Step 1. Boot the phone into download mode.

  1. Make sure the phone is powered-off.
  2. Press <volume down> + <power> keys simultaneously.
  3. The phone will boot up and the download mode image will be displayed on the phone.

Step 2. Connect the phone to the PC with a USB cable.

Step 3. Launch Windows Tool

See "Post Flash Guide" section to enable hardware acceleration (MALI DDK) -- you'll have to use SDB command line

Colm Farrell

You say to "Step 3. Launch Windows Tool".

Where can we download the "Windows Tool"?

I've spent about two days now trying to update with Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine. I've never used Ubuntu before, and have given up now. It's completely foreign to me.

 

Any help to get this done in Windows, would be really appreciated. Drivers are installed.

Bruno Magalhaes

Hi,

The windows tool is provided by  scion, in the first comment to this thread.

Good luck!

http://scidev.eu/downloads/RD_PQ_REF_RSA_2_2_0_RC11_WiFi.zip

 
Colm Farrell

Ah thank you!

 

I see that that is 2.2.0. Is there one for 2.2.1?

 

Thanks.

Dinh Hao
You should give Ubuntu a try. It's not that hard.
Colm Farrell

I have tried! On a number of occasions. It's far from intuitive for a Windows user unfortunately.

 

I tried to follow the instructions here

https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/flash-device

 

It took me a long time to realise that the instructions needed to be in the Terminal, but finding that bit was a big leap forward.

 

Then I encountered some password issue, but eventually managed to reset it.

 

Then came the first step in the instructions :

~~•Edit repository source list:
$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

•Append the following line, save and quit.
deb http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/Ubuntu_12.10 /

 

I managed to get into the edit screen, but appending seems very difficult!

Whenever I try to dype in the deb http:// stuff at the end of the file, random stuff happens such as deleting lines, jumping to various parts of the screen etc. It's like I'm entering instructions rather than text. I seem to have corrupted that file now :( But I'm none the wiser how to edit it properly to add that line!

 

Hence why I gave up and am trying to find a windows way. I hope that the final Tizen release doesn't rely on users having to have a Linux machine to update their phone!

Bruno Magalhaes

VI editor is actually awsome to use once you know the shortcut keys.
For instance you should use 'i' to insert a line. ':x' to save your file and quit

More about it here : http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html 

 

Colm Farrell

Thanks Bruno,

 

By that I managed to get the sources list amended, and I could execute the following two commands

 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install lthor

 

Both appears to work. They certainly when through some downloads.

I downloaded the image file

http://download.tizen.org/releases/2.2.1/tizen-2.2.1/images/RD-PQ-REF/tizen-2.2_20131107.3_RD-PQ-REF-wifi.tar

which seems like the most recent.

 

I then tried the command

sudo ./lthor tizen-2.2_20131107.3_RD-PQ-REF-wifi.tar

But unfortunately it says

sudo: ./lthor: command not found

 

So a bit further with Linux, but still not there. I've also no idea how to move my download from firefox to somewhere that lthor will find it (woudl be so easy to do in Windows).

 

The other issue, is that I've no idea if Ubuntu in my virtual machine can see my Tizen device.

 

Another reason why it would be so much better if I could find the latest version in Window.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bruno Magalhaes

I've found this video --  Flashing Tizen to a Device  >  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_GvrX2ZfEM

Regarding local usb, you have to forward the port in virtualbox (if that's what you're using) and check in the Linux device manager if the device is recognized.

Windows Drivers for the Tizen device have to be installed offcourse. Google is your best friend :)

Bruno Magalhaes

*my english is getting better every day *  of course  :D

Colm Farrell

Thanks Bruno. You're English is perfect. I assumed you were native English!

Unfortunately the video loses me very early on! It's apparently out of date, as the lthor tool doesn't seem to be in the location specified on the download.tizen.org and I can't find it under any of the other folders either :(

 

Colm Farrell

Oh.....standby! Super progress.

 

I left out the ./ before lthor in the instructions that I linked to earlier, and it then told me that it couldn't find file I named after it.

Your video showed me how to change folders into downloads (just like MS Dos) and I tried again.

Now it's transferring to the phone!

 

Looks like it completed while I was writing this.

 

Yes...V2.2.1 is on there now! Thanks very much for your help! I'd never have got there without you!

 

Now just off to figure out how to do the mali update ;)

 

Bruno Magalhaes

That's great !  I'm glad I could help

Colm Farrell

I've managed to get the mali installed too (At least I could do that through the familiar windows environment).

 

Thanks again for your repeated help. Really appreciated!