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Cannot flash firmware on SD card

Posted: 2025-01-07 14:06
by Lesept
Hi
I have a Pico Mini B and I am trying to flash the firmware to my SD card. I have 2 SD cards: 64 GB and 128 GB.
But the flashing tool does not find them at step 2 below:
Image
What is the problem? I can see both in Windows file explorer.

Re: Cannot flash firmware on SD card

Posted: 2025-01-08 2:01
by Ryand
Do you open the flashing tool as an administrator?

Re: Cannot flash firmware on SD card

Posted: 2025-01-08 8:33
by Lesept
Hi, thanks for your answer.
Yes, I did exactly as suggested in the FAQ:
Run the software as an administrator by right-clicking and then insert the TF card. If it still cannot be recognized, close the antivirus software and redownload the software.
Is there a maximum supported SD card size? Is 64GB or 128GB too much?
I tried on another computer, with the same result.

Re: Cannot flash firmware on SD card

Posted: 2025-01-09 6:15
by Ryand
There is no limit to the size of the SD card. The following is an image of a 64GB SD card detected by the software.
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You can check if the software version is v1.98 and obtain it from the following linkhttps://files.luckfox.com/wiki/Luckfox- ... 01_win.zip

Re: Cannot flash firmware on SD card

Posted: 2025-01-09 9:59
by Lesept
Thanks a lot. I had version 1.85 downloaded from Luckfox website: https://wiki.luckfox.com/Luckfox-Pico/L ... burn-image. I tried on another computer with the same result.

I have tried your version (both with the SD card already mounted or not), but it doesn't change: the device is not detected.
I have tried formatting the SD card with FAT32, NTFS, ex-FAT, with fast and hard format : no change.

Could it be possible to provide an image (.iso or .img file) of the firmware that I could copy on the SD card using other software, such as Win32diskimager?

Re: Cannot flash firmware on SD card

Posted: 2025-01-11 9:09
by Ryand
There are currently no pre-burned image files available; all files need to be written to the SD card using software.

Re: Cannot flash firmware on SD card

Posted: 2025-01-13 13:55
by Lesept
Thank you. I understand that, but as I can't use the burning software, I expected that someone could write the files on an empty SD card and make an image of it, then put it somewhere where I can download it to finally burn it on my SD card (using a different software).

Re: Cannot flash firmware on SD card

Posted: 2025-01-14 12:40
by Wei
Don't close SocToolKit, replug your sd card should work

Re: Cannot flash firmware on SD card

Posted: 2025-01-15 12:43
by Lesept
Thanks, it should work, but doesn't.
I'll try again later on a Linux computer.

But the easiest way would be (TMHA) to burn an image with another software

Re: Cannot flash firmware on SD card

Posted: 2025-01-17 16:24
by Lesept
Can anyone help me, please?