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Completely bricked u-boot on PogoPlug v4 Mobile (4 replies)

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I've completely bricked u-boot on my PogoPlug v4 Mobile. I was attempting to upgrade it via serial + tftp, but clearly messed it up. Now, I'm getting literally no output from the serial connection, and no LED status (except for the ethernet port which can create a physical link).

I've been doing some searches on this forum as well as more generally on the web, and everything points to trying to use kwboot to recover from a failed flash. However, even this seems to get stuck. Specifically, I get stuck here:

$ sudo kwboot -t -B 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 -b ~/Downloads/u-boot.kwb 
kwboot version 2024.01
Detected kwbimage v0 with NAND boot signature
Patching image boot signature to UART
Sending boot message. Please reboot the target...|

kwboot is running on an Ubuntu 24.10 machine (bare metal) and I'm connected by a USB-serial adapter at /dev/ttyUSB0. Even when I unplug and reconnect the power on the Pogoplug, nothing changes -- it hangs indefinitely (spinning the cursor after "Please reboot the target...".

Is there any way to recover at this point? If not, no big loss -- got the device for free, but would still love to try.

Thanks!

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