Soft bricked HiKey 960

Products Support HiKey 960
#1

I tried to flash UEFI according to the instructions, but I was never able to get it booted to the UEFI menu over serial port. Now I would like to flash back Android according to these instructions:

And flashing hikey960-img-253.zip from http://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/hikey960/linaro/aosp-master/latest/ in fastboot mode.

But it does not boot. It seems that the bootloader does not find the dtb information:

secureboot: SECBOOT_DEV_INFO_DADDR = 0x1d7fff00, SECBOOT_DEV_INFO_SIZE = 0x00000040!
dtimage: Invalid dtb image header
dtimage: dtb_init init fail
load_kernel: register_update_dt_ops for led!
vibrator: vibrator_delay: can’t get dtb operators

But when I try to flash this partition in fastboot mode, I get:

sudo fastboot flash dt dt.img

target reported max download size of 471859200 bytes
sending ‘dt’ (12 KB)…
OKAY [ 0.007s]
writing ‘dt’…
FAILED (remote: partition length get error)
finished. total time: 0.027s

What does not make any sense because the partition table (ptable.img) was flashed by recovery-flash.sh and it did not report any error.

Can I do anything to bring this dev board back.

#2

Which instructions are you following to perform the recovery?

#3

What is written on the github page. Shortly:

  1. “Boot into recovery mode set switch 1 & 2 to ON state and switch 3 to OFF state”
  2. Run: “sudo ./recovery-flash.sh /dev/ttyUSBx”
#4

fastboot flash dts out/target/product/hikey960/dt.img

Should the partition is ‘dts’?

#5

You are right!

sudo fastboot flash dts dt.img

did the trick and brought the board back to Android.

#6

Glad you got this sorted (and sorry for my dumb question… I had forgotten the github project page had instructions to debrick in the README).