Flash a FabMo Edison Image on Linux

This document describe the steps for flashing a stock FabMo image on your machine. Please read and follow carefully the next instructions.

/!\ This Operation will erase any apps you had installed, and reinstall stock settings.

#Requirements What you will need to perform the update:

• a Computer Running Linux (it has been tested on Ubuntu)
• the latest 1.8.0 FabMo image file available here
• your FabMo card
  
• a short micro USB type A cable (the same as almost every Smartphone/Camera/Tablet have. Smaller than 1ft/30cm would be great)
  

Instructions

1. First, If you haven't done it yet, Take out the FabMo card of your machine. Unplug your machine from the power , and open the electronic enclosure. Remove the controller card from the interface board, and unplug the ribbon cable, and the USB cables.
   

2. Your card should now looks like that :
   

3. plug your short USB cable into the controller card port labelled "OTG"
   

4. DO NOT PLUG INTO YOUR COMPUTER YET ! Wait until we tell you to do so.

5. Make sure you downloaded the FabMo image mentionned in the Requirement section on top of this post.

6. Open a command line terminal and install dfu-utils :

sudo apt-get install dfu-utils

7. Extract the content of the image zip file :

sudo unzip fabmo-image-1.6.0.zip

8. Go to the extracted folder :

cd toFlash

9. run the flashing script :

sudo ./flashall.sh

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10. Now plug the FabMo Card into your computer. The script will automatically find your card and flash it. It should start displaying the process of the flash. the operation can take up to 5 minutes.
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11. When It's done please wait two minutes for the tool to reconfigure itself.

12. Unplug your Card, plug the ribon cable and usb cables back and put it back in your machine.

Well done ! you're all set up !