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Flashing custom firmware to artoo
This guide shows you how to flash a custom firmware onto artoo. Super useful if you've bricked it (see note at end) or have made a custom build. If you haven't already, you should see building artoo's firmware.
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Bricked artoo?
If you've soft bricked artoo it's normally pretty easy to fix. This generally happens when a bad artoo.bin is genereated by solo-builder then flashed. This method only works if that is what has happened. Also note a factory reset does not fix this as it just reflashes the dodgy .bin file again.
Check your artoo.bin file size (optional)
If you want to make sure this is the reason artoo got bricked you can check the artoo.bin file generated by solo-builder. Decompress the complete artoo tarball. (normally called 3dr-controller.tar.gz) Inside is a 3dr-controller-imx6solo-3dr-artoo.squashfs file. Open that file with the ubuntu archive manager and look inside the /firmware directory. You should see a file that looks like artoo_x.x.x.bin. If it's size is 0 bytes you have a dodgy build.
Download "good" copy of artoo.bin
This file is provided for use at your own risk.
This link is a copy of the "good" artoo.bin file I found on my artoo. This may or may not work on your controller but it is worth a try if your builds keep failing to produce a good artoo.bin.
Download "good" artoo.bin