Bad firmware upgrade, ASI120MM dead

rcabanac

Hello,

I've searched the archive of the forum on this particular subject but saw no clear solution apart from

http://zwoug.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7454&hilit=softbrick "hacking". So here it is:

I did a firmware upgrade on my ASI120MM USB 2.0, from ubuntu 16.04 LTS using zwo_fwtool_usb2.tar.bz2 (don't remember the firmware probably ASI120MM-compatible.iic or ASI120MM.iic) and the camera went dead, no response on the USB port when I plug it now (tried on Ubuntu VM, Windows VM, and my native MAC OS). There is no USB detection (e.g. on MAC OS, nothing appears with "system_profiler SPUSBDataType" line command).

So what's next? Try some ZWO tools, what, where? Send it back to China for factory reset, where?

Thanks for your hints.

Remi

yang

Connect ASI120MM to your Ubuntu, what's the output of command "lsusb"?

chad

Hi Sir，

you can use this command to check the device:

1. dmesg

2, cat /proc/kmsg

Use this 2 command, you can check the device status when you plug it in.

And providing this log information will also help us determine the problem.

Thanks

chad

rcabanac

Dear Chad,

Thank you for the additional suggestion.

There is not such things as a /proc/kmsg, on my Mac OS X.

I attached to this mail a log of the sudo dmesg done with and without the USB2 camera plugged.

More specifically I did:

sudo dmesg > totounplug

sudo dmesg > tot plug

Not sure it is relevant but I compared the two files:

diff totonotplug totoplug

1,9c1

< Policy: deny(1) file-read-metadata /private/var/folders/rm/9__56d0d1clddg5xp7c4c8d00000gn/0/com.apple.nsurlsessiond/E8C9768780A371F36651AB699D884E881706B377/B889932195CB34CFF744AA49D413927DB93A4B26/tasks.plist

< AirPort: Link Down on en0. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).

< en0:: bssid changed

< en0: 802.11d country code set to 'X3'.

< en0: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 149 153 157 161IO80211VirtualInterface: : Bringing down link

< AirPort: Link Down on awdl0. Reason 1 (Unspecified).

< com.apple.p2p: dfsProxyStateMachine : From State kAWDLDFSProxyOff To State kAWDLDFSProxyOff

< com.apple.p2p: AWDL is off

< IO80211VirtualInterface: : Source controllerWillChangePowerState calling peerManager->disable

---

> 1VirtualInterface: : Source controllerWillChangePowerState calling peerManager->disable

180a173,178

> Starting poll type 4

> Restarting poll type 4

> Command 0x2 completed. inCount: 2 data 0x1 completed. inCount: 2 data 0x16 completed. inCount: 2 data 0xa completed. inCount: 2 data 0xb completed. inCount: 2 data 0x12 completed. inCount: 2 data 0x13 completed. inCount: 2 data 0xf completed. inCount: 2 data 0x10 completed. inCount: 2 data: finished polling type 4

> 087228.562591 IOUSBHostDevice@14200000: IOUSBHostDevice:: failed to get device descriptor

> 087228.562764 HS05@14200000: AppleUSBXHCIPort:: failed to start device

> 087228.562789 HS05@14200000: AppleUSBXHCIPort:: failed to create device (0xe00002e9)

rcabanac

I did a new test on fedora with the USB 2. camera, I get the following message appearing on /proc/kmsg:

<6> usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 13 using ehci-pci

<3> usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110

<6> usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 14 using ehci-pci

<3> usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110

<6> usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 15 using ehci-pci

<3> usb 1-4: device descriptor read/8, error -110

<6> usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci

<3> usb 1-4: device descriptor read/8, error -110

<3> usb usb1-port4: unable to enumerate USB device

<6> usb 4-2: new full-speed USB device number 10 using uhci_hcd

<3> usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110

rcabanac

and the dmesg command on fedora (camera plugged) gives:

only the last relevant lines

usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110

usb 4-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd

usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110

tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6

virbr0: port 1(virbr0-nic) entered blocking state

virbr0: port 1(virbr0-nic) entered disabled state

device virbr0-nic entered promiscuous mode

virbr0: port 1(virbr0-nic) entered blocking state

virbr0: port 1(virbr0-nic) entered listening state

virbr0: port 1(virbr0-nic) entered disabled state

usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110

usb 4-2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using uhci_hcd

usb 4-2: device descriptor read/8, error -110

usb 4-2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using uhci_hcd

usb 4-2: device descriptor read/8, error -110

usb usb4-port2: unable to enumerate USB device

fuse init (API version 7.25)

usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci

usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110

perf: interrupt took too long (2514 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 79000

perf: interrupt took too long (3144 > 3142), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 63000

perf: interrupt took too long (3931 > 3930), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000

usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci

usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110

usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci

usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci