LiveSuit

LiveSuit is developed by Allwinner as a installation application for Microsoft Windows to flash the NAND for Allwinner chips.

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 * Windows version LiveSuit
 * Please note that PhoenixSuit is actually LiveSuit2.0

Flash
To flash A10 devices with LiveSuit, first you need to let the device go to FEL mode.

Execute LiveSuit.exe and click SelectImg button to select the LiveSuit images you have. Connect your devices to PC with a USB cable. If Windows ask you to install driver, select the driver in the LiveSuit program UsbDriver folder.

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mkdir cubie; cd cubie git clone https://github.com/matson-hall/allwinner-pack-tools.git cd allwinner-pack-tools git checkout cubieboard cp tools/Livesuit-linux.zip cd unzip Livesuit-linux.zip cd LiveSuit_For_Linux64 chmod +x LiveSuit.run ./LiveSuit.run Note: LiveSuit.run installs a dynamic kernel module, you will need to install DKMS in order to use this driver. It is an Allwinner USB driver that talks to the board for flashing. sudo apt-get install dkms

Too many devices error
If you try to flash a USB 2.0 Device (such as Cubietruck) from a recent Ubuntu on an USB 3.0 Port, Chances are your device is not flashed as it is recognized by both xhci_hcd and ehci_hcd kernel modules. Try deactivating xhci_hcd (it needs to be blacklisted if it is in the kernel, as on Ubuntu 14.04), or, easier if available, deactivate USB 3.0 in your BIOS.

Unsupported distribution notes
If you get a "Linux distribution does not supported!!!" you're probably running Debian or Arch. You can extract it manually as such: tail -n +60 LiveSuit.run > LiveSuite.tar.bz2

As expected, the LiveSuit.run is a 60 lines shellscript followed by an tar.bz2 archive. In the tarball there are two things: the livesuite itself and a special USB driver in the form of either an RPM or a DEB package. rpmunpack or dpkg -x somepackage.deb can be used to extract the package.

Next, change into the extracted source to /usr/src/awdev-0.1 and type make (use sudo if 'permission denied' error is shown). You might need some developer libraries (libusb-dev ...). If there are errors, (I had some) they need to be fixed. For one, err has finally died! (according to [gkh on g+].). For it is fixed upstream somewhere over on [github].

Load the module with sudo insmod awusb.ko

Run (possibly with sudo) LiveSuit.sh Let your device go to FEL mode, then connect.