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putusb [2012/01/02 21:20] (current) – created paulf
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 +====== putusb ======
  
 +[[https://github.com/muromec/putusb|putusb]] is a utility by Ilya Petrov (muromec) for low-level communication with some Motorola smartphones and also Tegra devices. putusb runs on a host PC and communicates with the Tegra system (the AC100 in our case) through a dedicated USB port (the mini USB port on the AC100).
 +
 +Unlike [[nvflash]] (which is distributed by nvidia as a binary only), putusb is a python script and should run on any system supported by [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyusb/|PyUSB]].
 +
 +====== Installing putusb ======
 +
 +==== Prerequisitives ====
 +
 +  * Python intepreter (2.7 is known to work)
 +  * PyUSB (the old 0.x branch is known to work)
 +
 +==== Installation ====
 +
 +<code>
 +$ git clone git://github.com/muromec/putusb.git
 +</code>
 +
 +==== Usage ====
 +
 +If you have Qt4 installed, you can use
 +<code>$ ./qt-putusb.py</code>
 +
 +If you want full control of the operations, you can use it either from a python interactive command line or from a script. This example will let you to make a backup of your device:
 +<code>
 +import putusb
 +
 +dev = putusb.NvidiaUsb()
 +dev.boot("bin/tegra_pre_boot.bin", "bin/fastboot.stock.bin")
 +
 +print 'LOADED'
 +print 'Current partition table:'
 +print dev.parts()
 +
 +for i in range(2, 14):
 +    f = open("part"+str(i), 'wb')
 +    f.truncate()
 +    map(f.write, dev.read_part(i) )
 +    f.close()
 +</code>
 +
 +On my 32Gb ac100-116 the partition table looks like this:
 +<code>
 +[Part(num=2, name='BCT\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=0, size_sectors=1536, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=3, name='PT\x00\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=1536, size_sectors=256, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=4, name='EBT\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=1792, size_sectors=1024, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=5, name='SOS\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=2816, size_sectors=2560, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=6, name='LNX\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=5376, size_sectors=4096, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=7, name='MBR\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=9472, size_sectors=512, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=8, name='APP\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=9984, size_sectors=153600, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=9, name='CAC\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=163584, size_sectors=204800, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=10, name='MSC\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=368384, size_sectors=1024, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=11, name='EM1\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=369408, size_sectors=256, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=12, name='UDA\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=369664, size_sectors=632320, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=13, name='EM2\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=1001984, size_sectors=256, sector=2048)
 + Part(num=14, name='UDB\x00', typ=18, start_sectors=1002240, size_sectors=14628096, sector=2048)]
 +</code>
 +
 +Another useful function is
 +<code>
 +dev.flash_part(<partno>, <filename>)
 +</code>
putusb.txt · Last modified: 2012/01/02 21:20 by paulf