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Upgrading vu+solo2 clone to accept genuine untouched images
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No!! read the tutorial correctly and fully.
Strange thought they all shipped with cable..never mind your all sorted now...
Depends where the box came from, normally most ebay sellers will ship the box without the cable, no idea why but it could be because they don't want you messing around with the box possibly bricking it or it could be more lucrative and the reason is that the buyer then has to go back to the seller who will then off course offer a service and charge.
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Or they want to pass it off as an original Solo2!
Yep, the original Solo2 ships without a serial cable.
So, a little news from my end. I got my two new null modem cables, one of which with a so-called null modem with handshake pinout, and using this one I got a different result running update.exe... Promising!
Unfortunately, afterwards, after flashing a new-driver firmware, it still goes to HW Error, and flashing older (safe) firmwares still has it stuck at "Starting..", so nothing changed there.
Attempting update.exe again, now no longer triggers 'start download...' at all. Can anyone confirm whether you can only apply this update once?
So, if you're having trouble running update.exe, you might want to try another cable (other than the one provided, even). I'll let you know what the pinout on this "null modem with handshake" cable is later. Of course, it's also possible the supplied cable has wonky connectors. The cable I used this time was a much snugger fit, although additionally, the pinout is also different.
So, a little news from my end. I got my two new null modem cables, one of which with a so-called null modem with handshake pinout, and using this one I got a different result running update.exe... Promising!
Unfortunately, afterwards, after flashing a new-driver firmware, it still goes to HW Error, and flashing older (safe) firmwares still has it stuck at "Starting..", so nothing changed there.
Attempting update.exe again, now no longer triggers 'start download...' at all. Can anyone confirm whether you can only apply this update once?
So, if you're having trouble running update.exe, you might want to try another cable (other than the one provided, even). I'll let you know what the pinout on this "null modem with handshake" cable is later. Of course, it's also possible the supplied cable has wonky connectors. The cable I used this time was a much snugger fit, although additionally, the pinout is also different.
This has nothing to do with new drivers, no worries.
My box has been getting stuck at "Starting.." since attempting the Vu+ Solo2 clone upgrade ("from v1 to v2") as described in this thread. FPGA update was done successfully, and for quite a while I wasn't able to do the update.exe part, but I seem to have that worked out now by using another cable. But regardless the box is still stuck at "Starting..". Maybe the FPGA update didn't go 100%. Maybe something's broken in my box. Not sure yet.
I put up some mirrors a while back. Vu+ Solo² OpenViX 3.0.808 USB Flash (old drivers) by AJT at MirrorStack
I didn't get my box to work yet, but as far as I know everyone else did by just reflashing (a few times) different clone-safe images.
While you VDF display shows 'UBIFS Update', your box will try to get an IP from the DHCP server in your network (your router). These usually have a DHCP-client list, one of the listed IP's should be your box's.
Alternately, you can use an utility like SoftPerfect Network Scanner to quickly scan (and monitor) your entire network range for (new) devices. You should be able to determine your box' IP that way pretty easily.
While you VDF display shows 'UBIFS Update', your box will try to get an IP from the DHCP server in your network (your router). These usually have a DHCP-client list, one of the listed IP's should be your box's.
Alternately, you can use an utility like SoftPerfect Network Scanner to quickly scan (and monitor) your entire network range for (new) devices. You should be able to determine your box' IP that way pretty easily.
@Specty, I don't think there is a way to update the FPGA other than via the plugin.
I've had a look and couldn't find anything but the plugin is a python script so if you can find the source fpga.py then you might be able to look to see what command it runs in order to do the update.
@Biosman, you need to describe what you have done so far and what the output was and how far you got. Nothing is really the same so the more info you supply the more of a chance that somebody can help.
I've had a look and couldn't find anything but the plugin is a python script so if you can find the source fpga.py then you might be able to look to see what command it runs in order to do the update.
@Biosman, you need to describe what you have done so far and what the output was and how far you got. Nothing is really the same so the more info you supply the more of a chance that somebody can help.
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