I had very similar issues flashing my board. I have now managed to do it.
To get it to work I ended up pulling an old Windows XP SP2 machine out of the cupboard. Wonce I was using that it worked without issue. I have now reflashed my board and have been playing around with some of the example code.
From my experience:
Seeed seldom responds even with faulty hardware/RMA requests
Most of China is out on holiday making the idea of doing direct business with Any company in China a problem to most of us in the rest of the world.
My opinion:
Seeed needs to hire and train people for support (not just development)
ANY company that wants to sell retail directly to the rest of the world needs to have someone available for support and fulfillment purposes. It is a fools quest not to do business like this. A few countries/companies tried not to do this and most have hired/subcontracted people to fill in this shortcoming.
After flashing, you should copy an initial folder structure with some files to run. (also running W10) It can be found on the wiki, copy the content of this folder. github.com/WayenWeng/RePhone_Cr … 0Kit%20VXP
Also, general answer: my rephone stopped responding several times. Flashing should be done like
start the flasher and set up the image
pull out battery from rephone and reinsert; plug USB cable in rephone
click start flashing in app
plug rephone to USB
now rephone is flashing, and don’t forget to copy the stuff needed on the disk!
Worked like a charm for me.
Trouble updating the Firmware. I did not want to hassle with the Signature Driver issue with WIndows 10. Used a Windows 7 disk and was successful with the drivers. However, the firmware never displayed a progress bar. It was stuck. Made sure the battery was charged. Tried multiple changes and attempts, with the same stuck position when it should have displaying the progress. All grey/gray. Hopefully, this will be a quick fix after CNY so we can use a Windows 10 system as is. Or possibly a Linux OS (Raspberry Pi or Ubuntu would be OK as well - providing the instructions are easy to follow for Noobies.
If the Firmware updater is working well, you shouldn’t be able to go into the mass storage mode, instead you can find a COM PORT in Device Manager, which is used for firmware flashing. Please recheck if the driver is well installed, then go through the wiki again.
