No software news from discord, deadman hasn’t chimed with any updates in a while, must’ve gotten busy with other things.
Just trying it - it has huge potential and is really easy to edit. Good stuff.
Thank you for letting me know!
I flashed Kingston userdebug yesterday and then flashed your ROM right after but I am still observing WiFi disconnects that only gets solved by a restart.
When this state occurs, going to the wifi settings shows no discovered networks. Toggling the wifi on and off also has no effect.
That is what I saw as well. However, I have only had the issue a couple of times.
I’m not great with any of this, but I think I followed your instructions properly. When I try to run the command from the first post in git bash I get an error that python can’t find the ‘main’ module. I’m 99% sure this is user error, so any guidance would be greatly appreciated!!!
I just found out about this project when someone made a post about it on my voice competition entry ( View Assist - Visual feedback for Assist voice assistant on an Android tablet ) . This looks like a match made in heaven! I’ve ordered a device and hope to get things running on it as soon as it arrives. Would love to hear any thoughts or additional features that would make things even better.
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What directory are you in? What’s the output if you enter the command ls?
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I extracted the edl-3.52.1 folder onto my desktop and am opening Git Bash in that directory. Here is the output from the ls command.
`$ ls
Drivers/ MANIFEST.in edl.py* kingston-ha-rom.7z setup.cfg
Example/ README.md fastpwn modem/ setup.py*
LICENSE diag.py* flash/ pyproject.toml
Loaders/ edl/ kingston-ha-rom/ requirements.txt
The latest “release” of edl was from August 2021, but there’s been many updates to it since then. Instead of downloading it like you would a normal file, try cloning the repo using git instead using this command:
git clone [email protected]:bkerler/edl.git
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I’m super excited to see work on robust voice functionality.
I think @dinki is really on to something with his View Assist project.
I just cast my vote in the voice assistant contest. If you’d like to see view assist on our thinksmarts, then go check out the project and vote!
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That got me further, but I didn’t install the edl requirements. i got that sorted and am able to launch edl. I get to waiting for device, then I power up while holding vol up and vol down and get this.
$ ./edl qfil bin/rawprogram.xml bin/patch0.xml flash/ --loader=bin/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn
Qualcomm Sahara / Firehose Client V3.62 (c) B.Kerler 2018-2023.
main - Using loader bin/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn ...
main - Waiting for the device
......
main - Hint: Press and hold vol up+dwn, connect usb. For some, only use vol up.
main - Xiaomi: Press and hold vol dwn + pwr, in fastboot mode connect usb.
Run "./fastpwn oem edl".
main - Other: Run "adb reboot edl".
...............
.......Segmentation fault
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You followed the other instructions about installing the libusb-win32 drivers for the device and replacing edl’s libusb-1.0.dll file right? I vaguely remember running into segmentation faults before I got it all figured out.
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Good catch, I did on the zip version I downloaded, but forgot to after I cloned the repo. That got me further, no more segmentation fault. Thank you for all the help so far, I really appreciate it!!!
$ ./edl qfil bin/rawprogram.xml bin/patch0.xml flash/ --loader=bin/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn
Qualcomm Sahara / Firehose Client V3.62 (c) B.Kerler 2018-2023.
main - Using loader bin/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn ...
main - Waiting for the device
......
main - Hint: Press and hold vol up+dwn, connect usb. For some, only use vol up.
main - Xiaomi: Press and hold vol dwn + pwr, in fastboot mode connect usb.
Run "./fastpwn oem edl".
main - Other: Run "adb reboot edl".
..............main - Device detected :)
sahara - Protocol version: 2, Version supported: 1
main - Mode detected: sahara
sahara -
Version 0x2
------------------------
HWID: 0x000660e160008000 (MSM_ID:0x000660e1,OEM_ID:0x6000,MODEL_ID:0x8000)
CPU detected: "APQ8053"
PK_HASH: 0xb9eca30dfea4693497b6ac7eec81d006967281e259eb9ac239f9ce6dabb70c14
Serial: 0xf82f94c1
sahara - Protocol version: 2, Version supported: 1
sahara - Uploading loader bin/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn ...
sahara
sahara - [LIB]: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'bin/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn'
I got past that. I had the bin folder in the flash directory. Working my way through the rest of it now.
I was never able to get this flashed via windows. I was able to do it with a Ubuntu Live USB following the instructions for linux linked at the top of the thread.
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I haven’t been following the thread since it seems to have gone so far afield that it no longer applies to me.
Should I start yet another thread with my question?
I have my ThinkSmart display showing a HomeAssistant panel with three Frigate cards to see my outside cameras. It mostly works but occasionally the display shows my card configuration and the only way to get the camera displays back is to restart the device. Which means cycling the power.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
That’s quite a bit to unpack… can you further isolate the problem?
I’d probably start by checking the browser log and/or adb logcat for possible related entries when the issue occurs.
I used ubuntu/linux and when i flashed the device with the code “edl qfil rawprogram.xml patch0.xml ./ --loader=prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn” it went down until it got stuck on “trying to read first storage sector…” forever. Does anyone have a fix?
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It sounds like you may have a usb connectivity issue.
Can you give us more details?
The full output of the command would be helpful.
edl qfil rawprogram.xml patch0.xml ./ --loader=prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn
Qualcomm Sahara / Firehose Client V3.62 (c) B.Kerler 2018-2023.
main - Using loader prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn …
main - Waiting for the device
…
main - Hint: Press and hold vol up+dwn, connect usb. For some, only use vol up.
main - Xiaomi: Press and hold vol dwn + pwr, in fastboot mode connect usb.
Run “./fastpwn oem edl”.
main - Other: Run “adb reboot edl”.
.main - Device detected 
sahara - Protocol version: 2, Version supported: 1
main - Mode detected: sahara
sahara -
Version 0x2
HWID: 0x000660e160008000 (MSM_ID:0x000660e1,OEM_ID:0x6000,MODEL_ID:0x8000)
CPU detected: “APQ8053”
PK_HASH: 0xb9eca30dfea4693497b6ac7eec81d006967281e259eb9ac239f9ce6dabb70c14
Serial: 0xce3ac27e
sahara - Protocol version: 2, Version supported: 1
sahara - Uploading loader prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn …
sahara - 32-Bit mode detected.
sahara - Firehose mode detected, uploading…
main - Trying to connect to firehose loader …
firehose_client
firehose_client - [LIB]: No --memory option set, we assume “eMMC” as default …, if it fails, try using “–memory” with “UFS”,“NAND” or “spinor” instead !
firehose - TargetName=
firehose - MemoryName=eMMC
firehose - Version=
firehose - Trying to read first storage sector…
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How did you build edl?
From git?
Would this by any chance work with Lenovo Smart Display devices? I have this one and would love to repurpose it: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/smart-devices/smart-home/smart-home-series/smart-display-(10)/zziszsdsdx1