As a linux user, it is painful when new official ROM released

[Guest koudelka]

I thought the acer update tool was basically just using fastboot for flashing the updates? if so wouldn't it be possible to extract rom and make a shell script for flashing under linux?

[Guest liquid_it]

@Vailo: I don't thinl it'll work, seriously..

We might try to focus on the flashing process itself.

While the 2nd part is just a batch of

fastboot -i 0x0502 flash *partition_to_flash* *image_to_flash*

the first part is about writing radio firmware (dsp1.mbn), partition scheme, fastboot mode, initial logo and some other goods.

The two operations are distinct: I flashed just the radio part, disconnected before fastboot flashing (don't try this @home!!!!), and got radio updated with no need to restore setting & apps.

IMHO we miss a tool acer uses to flash mbn files of the .bin, and we miss a specific reboot mode too (the "full black" screen mode), which is used to flash this part of firmware. I'd try a usb debugging tool to understand what happens in the first stage..

[Guest Neo Wong]

I tried VMware once, The software can run and in the early part, It seems no problem. But when reached turning to fastboot mode, the progress didn't go on. Guest host can't find usb devices. I think it might because host and guest were fighting about the usb device mount permission.

The update progress didn't complete then I have to use physical machine to flash again.

[Guest alfarobl]

I tried VMware once, The software can run and in the early part, It seems no problem. But when reached turning to fastboot mode, the progress didn't go on. Guest host can't find usb devices. I think it might because host and guest were fighting about the usb device mount permission.

The update progress didn't complete then I have to use physical machine to flash again.

When it gets stuck you just take USB cable out (it says not to do so... but at that instance there is no problem, it is just waiting...) The it detects correctly the phone again and continues no issues. I have flashed about 5 bins that way and none failed. New Acer tool with 2.1 firmware works no need to do something special, it requests to take USB cable out itself.