RK3399 firefly SW download

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my respect to How To get your brand new RK3399 to actually boot linux

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bootloader

1. Windows. install DriverAssitant_v4.5.rar
2. boot Android
3. adb reboot bootloader
4. Windows. run AndroidTool 2.71
5. LOADER found in the tool.

download from A7.1(industry)/A8.1 to A8.1

download matrix

1. switch to upgrade page
2. choose downloaded Android image
3. click on firmware button…
4. if Loader Ver is different than current firwmare, click on erase flash button
5. click on upgrade button…
6. in case of failure, try step 4

download from A8 to Linux

Step 4 in previous section is needed. Others same.

If adb not able to use, “2-sec pressing recovery button and power plug / power plug and pressing recovery button, short pressing reset button, 2-sec releasing recovery button” brings device into Android’s recovery mode and needs to press volume down to go into bootloader.

loader ver	image	note
1.12	Firefly-RK3399_Android8.1.0_HDMI_181023
"	Firefly-RK3399_Android8.1.0_HDMI_190213	userdebug. build date 2019年 01月 25日 16:42:18 CST
1.19	FIREFLY-RK3399-DEBIAN9-DESKTOP-GPT-20200110-1051	debian 9 was from June 17th, 2017. LXDE. username & password=firefly
1.15	FIREFLY-RK3399-DEBIAN-GPT-20190122-1541	probably no xWindows built-in

upgrading Linux

tailored Linux will be added to more modules, probably.

upgrade Debian (with LXDE) from stretch to bullseye. “apt update” to current release of stretch, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, etc., “apt update” and “apt full-upgrade”

When upgrading from stretch to bullseye, libgl-dev_1.3.2-1_arm64 may fail, conflicting with /usr/include/KHR/khrplatform.h from libmali-rk-dev:arm64 1.7-1. Then use “dpkg -i –force-overwrite ” plus the deb file name to force writing it. Or, even use “dpkg -P ” plus package name to purge it.

login changes

• boot into command line. to switch back to xwindow (LXTE), use “graphical.target”
  sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
  boot into command line

• LXDE autologin. worked before debian upgrade but failed afterwards.
  change “autologin-user=” in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
  get Lightdm autologin working