[Hackrf-dev] bricked hackrf

[Dominic Spill]

Hi Robert,

On 15 February 2015 at 18:52, Robert Feldner <robert.feldner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> after finishing the update and rebooting the hackrf it suddenly went dead -
> that means no leds, just a barely heareble buzzing from somewhere in the
> near of the lpc4320!
>
> i tried with different cables, different computers, pressing dfu-button when
> powering up, pressing boot and dfu and releasing dfu first -
> no success!
>
> do you have any idea what i could do now?

When you connect the device while pressing the DFU button, does it
appear to the host at all? Does it show up in lsusb?

If it enumerates to the host then you can use the recovery process
here: https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Updating-Firmware#recovering-the-spi-flash-firmware

Thanks,
  Dominic