EVO ORIN Firmware Burning#

Image Burning#

1.Function Introduction#

Miivii flash tool, suitable for Miivii series products.

Miivii flash tool is a tool software provided for the convenience of burning, writing, cloning and small batch production of Miivii equipment.

You can burn the Miivii official image to Miivii equipment by using X86 architecture PC as the burning host. After a period of development of Miivii equipment, the existing equipment can be mirrored and cloned to save the development progress, and burned to other Miivii equipment in a single or small batch of products.

Core Function#

  • Automatic detection of using environment

  • Automatically detect the latest mirror

  • Build-in image downloader, no need to download images manually.

  • Support batch burning

  • Support mirror cloning（It should be noted that you need to use the same Jetpack version before burning after Clone.）

2.Prepare Software and Hardware#

2.1. Burning Host Preparation#

You need to connect the burning host with the Miivii device to burn the image. The recommended configuration of the burning host is as follows:

● Intel Core ™ series processors with CPU X86/X64 architecture, at least 4 cores.

●Memory 8GB ddr3 and above，DDR3/DDR4/DDR5

● The disk format of the burning host is recommended as EXT4.

● Spare hard disk capacity 40G and above

● The system is Ubuntu Linux x64 v16.04 , v18.04 or  v20.04 ( As of  v1.6.0.8 , support  Ubuntu20.04,   “sudo apt-get install miivii-ftool ” Upgrad version & View version )

2.2. Burning Software Environment Preparation#

● sudo apt install python2.7 python3 python

2.3. Prepare Miivii Burning Tool and Miivii Equipment Image.#

2.3.1.Burning Tool Installation#

  • Prepare PC host，System is：Ubuntu Linux x64 v16.04 , v18.04 or  v20.04 ( As of  v1.6.0.8 , support  Ubuntu20.04,   “sudo apt-get install miivii-ftool ” Upgrad version & View version )

  • Install key.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 05BE38FE8ADA7CD12E3281B52FC7A8453C3B8F24
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://upgrade.miivii.com/miiviitools/ mvtools main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/miivii-l4t-apt-source.list'
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install miivii-ftool

  • After installation (click “Show Applications” in 18.04 system or “Search Your Computer” in 16.04 system), you will find the following shortcuts

  • Double-click shortcut，enter password：Your sudo password。

2.4. Prepare Hardware#

● Miivii device and power supply, USB data cable.

3.Operate#

3.1. Hardware Connection#

  • Connect the burning interface of Miivii device with the burning host through USB data line；

  • Press and hold the RECOVERY button of the Miivii device, and then power on the Miivii device to enter the FORCE_Recovery burning mode.

3.2 Software Trial#

Select English at the top right of the login page.

Input host user name and password.

  • Click the “Online mode” checkbox, select Jetpack version and download path, then click “Next” to start downloading the latest brush environment and device image of the selected version.

  • Choose whether to start brushing automatically after the download is completed. If you choose Auto, decompression, verification and brushing will be performed automatically after the download is completed.

  • The download speed depends on the network speed of the environment, generally up to 5M/s.

  • It usually takes more than 15 minutes to finish . Please be patient.

  • Click the “Offline mode” checkbox, select the downloaded brush environment and device image, and click “Next” to start burning directly.

  • Enter the Miivii device into FORCE_Recovery mode according to the method of 3.1, and open the burning tool.

  • Click the “Enter password” button ,enter the boot password of the burning host.

  • Click “Clone” button，enter cloning operation.

  • Modify the path and name of the cloned file stored in the burning host, and click “Clone”.

Note: Chinese or special characters are not allowed in the file storage path.

  • Cloning usually takes more than 30 minutes to complete:

  • After the clone is completed, the clone image and MD5 file will be generated. Please follow the steps in 3.2.1 to burn again.

Note: If you  problems in the process of image burning and cloning, please contact Miivii after-sales mailbox for help: .

Appendix 1. Self-check of Burning Problem#

If you have any burning problems, please check yourself according to the following items first:

  • Whether the PC boot password is entered in the upper left corner of the burning tool.

  • Whether you have entered Recovery mode, which can be identified by lsusb command.

  • Whether the quality of Micro USB and dual Type A cables is up to standard, and whether they are for charging.

  • Whether the upper computer is a desktop or notebook computer with X86-64 architecture. (Currently, other devices such as servers, embedded devices and virtual machines are not supported)

  • Whether the host computer system is Ubuntu Linux x64 v16.04 , v18.04 or  v20.04 ( As of  v1.6.0.8 , support  Ubuntu20.04,   “sudo apt-get install miivii-ftool ” Upgrad version & View version )

  • Check the disk format,  the disk format of the burning host is recommended as EXT4.

  • Whether the upper computer capacity is sufficient.

  • The mirror burning tool storage path cannot contain Chinese characters or other special characters.