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Comment by lgeorget

I lost a good two hours the other day on an insufficiently documented device, looking for a way to flash a new firmware onto it.

dmesg was absolutely silent about it when I plugged in or out my C-C USB cable although the device switched on when I was using a simple charger instead. I opened it up to see if there was a special switch or something to put it in firmware flashing mode, to no avail. The little documentation I had only mentioned using one of the USB port.

In the end, out of ideas, I switched cables (even though I knew my cable was perfectly fine). As soon as I plugged in a A-C USB cables, everything worked immediately...

parent lgeorget 2 months ago

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