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System Upgrade User’s manual

November 24, 2008

Document Number: PRDM-0010

Reversion: D

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Change List

ID

Content

DateTime

Author

1

First Release

April 17, 2008

sly

2

Modify the details

September 24,

2008

slyzhang

3

Union the Release No. and add the NBOOT&JTAG

November

11,2008

slyzhang

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Table of Contents

Change List....................................................................................................................................................................2

Description ......................................................................................................................................................................4

Install USB Drivers........................................................................................................................................................4

Upgrade system Use USB...........................................................................................................................................5

Nboot .......................................................................................................................................................................5

Description .....................................................................................................................................................5
Update Nboot via USB .................................................................................................................................5
Update Nboot via USB JTAG......................................................................................................................6

Upgrade Eboot.........................................................................................................................................................7

Via USB to update Eboot ................................................................................................................................7
Via SD to update Eboot................................................................................................................................7

Low format the Flash...............................................................................................................................................7

Format the flash file system.....................................................................................................................................8

Upgrade logo ...........................................................................................................................................................8

Upgrade OS .............................................................................................................................................................8

Update OS via USB .........................................................................................................................................8
Update OS via SD card................................................................................................................................9

FAQ .........................................................................................................................................................................9

Upgrade User Interface (UI) Use SD Card ............................................................................................................10

Steps: ............................................................................................................................................................10
Shell_upgrade folder shot screen:............................................................................................................10

FAQ: ..............................................................................................................................................................................12

Nboot .....................................................................................................................................................................12

EBOOT..................................................................................................................................................................12

OS ..........................................................................................................................................................................12

NBOOT & JTAG ..........................................................................................................................................................13

UI...........................................................................................................................................................................14

Connect ........................................................................................................................................................................14

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Description

This document will tell you how to upgrade system software, including bootloader (NBoot), Operation system

upgrade tool (Eboot), and operation system software (OS) and the user interface application(UI).

Upgrade below system software use USB:

NBOOT

EBOOT

Upgrade below by SD card:

OS

Logo

User interface (UI)

Eboot (Note1)

Before you update any software, please confirm what you are doing, because you have to know it has a big risk

to do it.

Note1: Update Eboot via SD need Eboot version upper 3.18.

Install USB Drivers

You must install USB drivers before you upgrade system software NBOOT.

Steps:

Power off your device

Plug in Mini USB to USB slot, plug other USB connector to your PC or notebook,

Press the MENU button (or power button, some model/version needs) and then power on the device at

the same time, your PC or Notebook could show a “Found New Device” dialog, Microsoft software

“Windows” such as “windows XP” will help you to install a device’s driver.

When you select the Device driver files or director, please select our driver folder, such as

“ATLASMGR” you downloaded from our website.

If your system is windows XP or later, you should confirm the driver to “always continue” when XP need

authorization confirmed.

After you installed the USB driver, you can see below item Centrality Atlas Chip USB Utilities in your

device manager list:

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You can get USB driver and the upgrade tools from our website, you needs a account to download it access it.

Please connect with us and ask for the account.

Upgrade system Use USB

Nboot

Description

NBOOT is the first code after you power on the device, so it is a biggest risk to upgrade NBOOT. When you

need to change system clock frequency, example you should change your system clock from 300MHz to

372MHz, you could do it. It is recommended to refer related documents.

If you have no tools or documents, you can download the tools and documents to upgrade the NBOOT, please

connect with us to get username and password

Update Nboot via USB

You must confirm your device could boot when you use USB to update Nboot.

Note: You must update Nboot via JTAG when your device could not boot up. Please refer to NBoot and

JTAG for detail.

Steps:

1.

Power off your device

2.

Plug in Mini USB to USB slot, plug other USB connector to your PC or notebook,

3.

Run the Upgrade tools named such as: AtlasMgr5.exe, and set the option to below show:

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4.

Press the POWER button and then power on the device at the same time.

5.

Select “Transport” to “USB” and then press OPEN button some times, this button will be “Close” after

USB connected. And system NBOOT information could be showed at the main screen.

6.

Update button “Upgrade NBOOT” to select NBOOT file to upgrade NBOOT.

7.

After Upgrade, a “success” will be showed at the right edit.

8.

And then, restart the device.

9.

And after step 9 restart, you could upgrade EBOOT now.

Update Nboot via USB JTAG

1. Make confirm the interface of JTAG connector to JTAG board.

2. As same as “Upgrade NBOOT via USB” steps 1~4.

3. Select “Transport” to “JTAG” and then press OPEN button some times, this button will be “Close” after

USB connected. And system NBOOT information could be showed at the main screen.

4. Update button “Upgrade NBOOT” to select NBOOT file to upgrade NBOOT, a progress bar window will

be show.

5. After Upgrade, a “success” will be showed at the right edit.

6. And then, restart the device.

7. And after step 9 restart, you could upgrade EBOOT now.

Note1: You must know the JTAG information to do this section. Please connect with us for more information

about “Update Nboot via USB JTAG”.

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Upgrade Eboot

Via USB to update Eboot

1. Do same as “Upgrade NBOOT” steps 1~5.

2. Update button “Upgrade EBOOT” to select EBOOT file to upgrade EBOOT.

3. After Upgrade, a “success” will be showed at the right edit.

4. And the reset or reboot the device.

Via SD to update Eboot

1. Power off the device

2. Copy the Eboot image file (ebupdate.bin) to SD root.

3. Insert SD card to SD to SD slot.

4. Power on the device, system will auto detect the ebupdate.bin image file if it’s on the root of SD card, if it

exists, device enter update mode and update will auto start. Please confirm the result message on the

screen.

Note1: Please do not update Nboot or Eboot if it’s not necessary; because you have big risk of destroy the

device.

Note2: Some Eboot version needs to erase flash after you update the Eboot, but the later will not erase, it’s

recommended to erase flash because that OS update maybe update failure.

Note3: After you update Eboot, device maybe the blue LED is light always but could not enter the system. The

Nboot maybe was destroyed. You have to update Nboot again via USB JTAG interface.(early eboot version may

do it.)

Note4: Please check your correct EBOOT version for your device firstly. Please connect us or refer to related file

for more information.

Low format the Flash

1. Copy the format flag file lowforma.enb to root of SD card

2. Insert the SD card to SD slot, and then power on the device,

3. System will auto detect the file lowforma.enb, if it exists, device enter update mode and will auto start to

format. Please confirm the result message on the screen.

Note

: this format will erase all information exclude the NBOOT and Eboot and UUID information. Other information

will all be erased include file system.

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Format the flash file system

1. Copy the format flag file coformat.enb to root of SD card

2. Insert the SD card to SD slot, and then power on the device,

3. System will auto detect the file coformat.enb, if it exists, device enter update mode and will auto start to

format. Please confirm the result message on the screen.

Note

: This format will erase all information exclude the NBOOT and Eboot and UUID information on earlier verion,

but the later security information will not be erased any time. Other information will all be erased include file system.,

and then OS system will create a file system.

Upgrade logo

Steps:

1. Prepare a logo.bmp file and put it to SD root directory. If your device is 3.5’ LCD, the logo.bmp should

be 320*240*24bit color BMP file. If your device is a 4.3’LCD, the logo.bmp should be 480*272*24 bit

color BMP file. Other format file will make a “BAD BMP format File” failure.

2. Power off the device.

3. Insert SD card to SD slot.

4. Press MENU button and power on the device at the same time. A upgrade screen will show after

EBOOT detected a valid upgrade file.( some hardware version needs this step)

5. Please confirm the upgrade screen if success or failure. If failure, you could correct it and do it again.

Note:

Some OS can support update logo via UI application. User can replace logo freely in picture viewer.

Upgrade OS

You only can update Eboot via USB when your Nboot version is before 5.13, after Nboot version 5.13, device

support update OS via SD card. So, you must confirm the Nboot version before you update the OS.

Update OS via USB

1. As same as “Upgrade NBOOT” steps 1~5.

2. Hold VOLUME DOWN, Input “1” into input edit, and at the same time.

3. Press ENTER to confirm, system will show below:

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4. Input “Blank” key and press Enter to continue, some system information will show the right edit.

5. Input “u” or “U” and press ENTER to continue, and then ”Upgrade NK image” will be enable.

6. Press “upgrade NK image” to select a “chain.lst” to download the OS, and then a progress bar wil be

showing.

7. After Upgrade success, system will auto run.

Update OS via SD card

1. Copy the OS image files to root of SD card, normally the OS image files include:

chain.bin,

DRIVERS.bin, NK.bin and TINYNK.bin, and the list file osupdate.lst.

2. Insert the SD card to SD slot, and then power on the device,

3. System will auto detect the file osupdate.lst, if it exists, device enter update mode and update will auto

start. Please confirm the result message on the screen.

Note1: it’s recommended to clean the flash after you update the Nboot or Eboot. Clean the flash will format the

flash and reset the file system.

Note2: If you do a Lowforma.enb or coformat.enb, you can update OS directly, when the OS read to the

SDRAM, system will create the file system by default.

FAQ

Q: I get “failure” many times.

A: If you see a “failure” in the right edit during upgrade OS progress, you can restart and upgrade again, if you

received failure after more times, you can try to put the lowforma.enb or coformat.enb to format the flash and

update again.(But please download all files include OS and UI interface).

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Upgrade User Interface (UI) Use SD Card

You could upgrade UI and explorer files by SD card. All things you need to do is put the files to SD card directory

shell_upgrade, you could get this folder from our website or our email.

Please do not do this step unless you DO NEED to upgrade the UI.

Steps:

1.

make sure the folder shell_upgrade at SD ROOT directory like below:

2.

Make sure the file named “version” under folder “shell_upgrade”.

3.

Remove the SDCARD from device and then power on the GPS, until system enter the main screen.

4.

Insert SD card to SD slot, system will auto upgrade, and the screen will show upgrade process window.

5.

After upgrade finished, device may have a restart. But normally it could not, it’s depends on the setting in

Version file

Note1: Please connect with us if you upgrade failure and could not boot.

Note2: Please change or delete the shell_upgrade folder when you need to navigate or play media file, otherwise,

system will auto upgrade again and again.

Shell_upgrade folder shot screen:

Files under SD card:

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Description:

order

File name

Note

1

Ebupdate.bin

Has hard risk.

2

Lowforma.enb

Will erase the OS and UI and all user application except

UUID

3

Coformat.enb

Rebuild the system filesystem

4

Logo.bmp

Logo file name

5

Osupdate.lst

OS list file

6

Shell_upgrade

UI upgrade files, file Version is update verify and setting.

Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any problem!

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FAQ:

Nboot

Q: Can not connect to USB

A: Confirmed USB driver installed first, and then confirm followed the steps operation; last, check your hard

version and Nboot version, some hardware and model need to press MENU button when power on, but other

models need to press Power ON button to enter USB connection mode, and the 3.5 model need press Menu

and the Volume UP key to enter USB connection mode. For more information please connect with us.

Q: System can not boot up after Nboot upgrade.

A: You have to update NBOOT via USB JTAG to reset the software again. Please connect with our sales.

EBOOT

Q: Can not update logo file

A: Check logo bmp file format and the file name firstly. It’s recommended to format the flash if you failed some

times.

Q: Can not update EBOOT files

A: Check image files and the ebupdate.bin file on the root of SD card and confirm the OS file version for your

hardware firstly. It’s recommended to format the flash if you failed some times.

Q: Can not find any upgrade flag

A: Check your files are on the root of SD card. Check the SD card hardware version, normally, SD cards are

SD1.1 standard card, but after year 2008, the SD2.0 and SDHC SD cards are popular, but the technology is

old, so some SD2.0 or SDHC cards are not be initialed correctly. Please told me your detail and change a SD

card and try again.

Device support up to 4GB standard speed SD card of SD 1.1 and the standard SD2.0 cards, it maybe not

support many new SD2.0 and SDHC cards.

OS

Q: Can not update OS files

A: Check image files and the osupdate.lst file on the root of SD card and confirm the OS file version for your

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hardware firstly. It’s recommended to format the flash if you failed some times.

Q: Update OS failure

A: Check image files are all on the root of SD card. And check the system has a high battery level; any low

battery level will make the error occur when system reading files.

Q: Write Flash failure

A: It’s recommended to low (lowforma.enb) or high (coformat.enb) format the flash if you failed some times.

And check the system has a high battery level; any low battery level will make the error occur when system

reading files.

NBOOT & JTAG

You must update NBoot via JTAG when your device could not boot up.

When your device’s NBOOT was broken, you must update nboot from JTAG.

Firstly, you should get a JTAG board, normally, it support TMS、TCK、TDI、TDO pins to flash.

You can get a normal JTAG board hardware and documents from internet.

Secondly, check the Pin connected correctly.

The following is our hardware design and you should check it with your JTAG board.

J5 is the connector on our device

Note: After you connect the cable, please short the following pin when you power on. System will enter CPU

JTAG mode.

Short this pin when you want to JTAG

Lastly: you should download the Centrality (SiRF) flash tool from our website, please read carefully the

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upgrade guider before you update.

UI

Q: Do not start to update after insert SD card

A: Check Shell_upgrade folder on the root of SD card; Check the version number of the version file and

make it’s below the system current number (you can see this value via evergrowtesttools.exe); check the SD

card can be read; ;Please tell me detail information if you failure again.

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