Rockchip Create Upgrade

Rockchip create upgrade disk tool v1.4 helps you to install firmware on rockchip device from micro sd card. You can write firmware image on micro sd card and restore or update your rockchip devices. Upgrade or restore any rockchip device without computer or flashing tools. Before proceeding you have to make surethat you have right firmware. Rockchip Create Upgrade Disk Tool v1.4 helps you to install firmware on Rockchip device from Micro SD card. This is a sticky topic.

  • 1Windows


This page introduces how to upgrade an update.img to NAND flash from sdcard.


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Windows

Rockchip Create Upgrade Disk Tool V1.4

Rockchip provides the sd image tool.

Tool

Note: Only android update.img is supported now. More work needs to be done for linux update.img

Rockchip Create Upgrade Disk Tool V1 4 Download

Requirements

  • a SD card (4G at least)
  • a SD card reader
  • Windows System ( the tool to make upgrade disk is exe format)
Disk

Get the image for upgrading

Make the Upgrade SD card

  1. Download the tool to make upgrade disk and unzip it: http://dl.radxa.com/rock/tools/windows/SD_Firmware_Tool.zip
  2. Insert the reader to pc and insert the sdcard to reader
  3. Find SD_Fireware_Tool.exe under SD_Fireware_Tool and click it. See PIC_1
  4. Select the insert sdcard under 'Choose removable disk' Item. See PIC_1
  5. Select 'Upgrade Fireware' (Note:Select only this item). See PIC_1
  6. Click 'Firmware' button to choose the image just download and unzip.See PIC_1
  7. Click 'Create' to begin. when complete, there will be a dialog to tell you success


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Upgrade with SD card on RR

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Linux

on Linux, write sdboot-header.img into beginning of your micro SD card. (you'll lose all data on it)

then, your SD card should have a 1GB FAT partition. format it, mount it, then put rksdfw.tag sd_boot_config.config, and Radxa's update image for SD card as 'sdupdate.img' into root directory of SD card.

Rockchip Create Upgrade Disk Tool V1.53

Download the binaries from http://files.androtab.info/radxa/sdboot.tgz, and unzip it.

Rockchip Create Upgrade V1.46

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