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Old 07-09-2024, 03:55 PM   #16
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Uh-oh. Did they put in a new abl without boot or even flash?
Do you have EDL working? Pull abl for me, please.

I can't justify loading 1.8 GB on my connection, but a peek seems to indicate that they did whack abl on you.

The new Go's have crippled abl's.

I found an abl_a partition. Does that help? I extracted it with:

./edl/edl r abl_a abl_a.prc

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Old 07-09-2024, 03:58 PM   #17
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I have not tried flash yet.
Well, then do it! But safely.
Code:
fastboot erase fishheads
Erasing 'fishheads'                                (bootloader) Invalid partition name fishheads
FAILED (remote: '')
fastboot: error: Command failed

fastboot flash fishheads anyfileyoulike
Sending 'fishheads' (2583 KB)                      OKAY [  0.073s]
Writing 'fishheads'                                (bootloader) Invalid partition name fishheads
FAILED (remote: '')
fastboot: error: Command failed
Do not do this if you actually have a partition named "fishheads"!

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Is abl the boot.img? If not, how do I pull it?
Now's a great time to learn all about EDL. Because you're going to need it!
http://www.temblast.com/edl.htm
I'm not sure if the NoteAir3 uses the sdm662.bin loader.
Code:
adb reboot edl
edl /lsdm662.bin
eel /u /r /pabl_a abl_a.img
edl /z
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Old 07-09-2024, 04:01 PM   #18
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File attached.
Our messages passed each other.

Wasn't it fortunate that I just finished writing my UEFI tool this morning?
Now I can see at a glance that they chopped your abl off at the knees.
abl supports the fastboot protocol when it's acting as bootloader.

You can use EDL to flash your Magisk'ed boot image.
Be careful and keep a copy of the original boot image.

Nap time... zzz...
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Old 07-09-2024, 04:05 PM   #19
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Well, then do it! But safely.
Code:
fastboot erase fishheads
Erasing 'fishheads'                                (bootloader) Invalid partition name fishheads
FAILED (remote: '')
fastboot: error: Command failed

fastboot flash fishheads anyfileyoulike
Sending 'fishheads' (2583 KB)                      OKAY [  0.073s]
Writing 'fishheads'                                (bootloader) Invalid partition name fishheads
FAILED (remote: '')
fastboot: error: Command failed
Do not do this if you actually have a partition named "fishheads"!


Now's a great time to learn all about EDL. Because you're going to need it!
http://www.temblast.com/edl.htm
I'm not sure if the NoteAir3 uses the sdm662.bin loader.
Code:
adb reboot edl
edl /lsdm662.bin
eel /u /r /pabl_a abl_a.img
edl /z

Our messages crossed. The abl_a image is in my previous reply.

I'm getting unknown command on both erase and flash.

xfx:~/oldhome/Phone/boox/na2p $ fastboot devices
8863F9C3 fastboot
xfx:~/oldhome/Phone/boox/na2p $ fastboot erase fisheads
Erasing 'fisheads' FAILED (remote: 'unknown command')
fastboot: error: Command failed
xfx:~/oldhome/Phone/boox/na2p $ fastboot flash fisheads magisk_patched-26400_QLQZ1.img
Warning: skip copying fisheads image avb footer (fisheads partition size: 0, fisheads image size: 100663296).
Sending 'fisheads' (98304 KB) OKAY [ 2.242s]
Writing 'fisheads' FAILED (remote: 'unknown command')
fastboot: error: Command failed
xfx:~/oldhome/Phone/boox/na2p $
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Old 07-09-2024, 04:20 PM   #20
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Our messages passed each other.

Wasn't it fortunate that I just finished writing my UEFI tool this morning?
Now I can see at a glance that they chopped your abl off at the knees.
abl supports the fastboot protocol when it's acting as bootloader.

You can use EDL to flash your Magisk'ed boot image.
Be careful and keep a copy of the original boot image.

Nap time... zzz...
Ok, thanks for your help. Now I can stop beating my head against that wall.
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Old 07-30-2024, 07:56 AM   #21
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Our messages passed each other.

Wasn't it fortunate that I just finished writing my UEFI tool this morning?
Now I can see at a glance that they chopped your abl off at the knees.
abl supports the fastboot protocol when it's acting as bootloader.

You can use EDL to flash your Magisk'ed boot image.
Be careful and keep a copy of the original boot image.

Nap time... zzz...
Does this mean that starting from 3.5.3 firmware the only way to flash patched boot.img on any Boox device is via EDL?
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Old 07-30-2024, 08:27 AM   #22
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There are basically three ways to flash something:
  • In a rooted Android shell
    Code:
    # dd if=/sdcard/some.img of=/dev/block/by-name/some_part
  • With fastboot
    Code:
    C:\>fastboot flash some.img some_part
  • With EDL
    Code:
    C:\>edl /w /psome_part some.img
Of course you can always do a normal update using the stock Onyx software.

Fastboot flashing seems to be disappearing. You might try to retain the old abl from a previous update. Or just backup your current abl. Besides flashing there should not be incompatibility between the old and the new abl.
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Old 07-31-2024, 03:13 AM   #23
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Is there no update 3.5.3 for Poke 3?
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Old 07-31-2024, 07:12 AM   #24
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Is there no update 3.5.3 for Poke 3?
Apparently not.
The last update was ONYX/Poke3/Poke3:10/2023-12-12_23-45_3.5_4687b1901/12699:user/dev-keys
At the bottom of this page it omits the Poke3.
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