BOOX Latest Firmware V3.5

[downeaster59]

Onyx has usually sent out updates in batches, never all at once. If they have any method as to how they organize the updates (such as who gets them first or second), I haven't seen it! It can take weeks for everyone who has a given device to get their 'latest' update. Sometimes I get my update very quickly; sometimes not!

[Renate]

Yeah, I know they stagger updates, but I'm not even seeing updates that have been out for a while. It's not that I get an error, it's just returning older updates.

If anyone has a net capture can they see what the query is?

[ottischwenk]

I got 3.5 updates for all my BSR devices - the other Android 11, 10, 9 devices are all still open

[Renate]

Ok, well, I'm missing something here.
When I look manually for updates on "TabUltra" and "Palma" I only see:

Onyx/TabUltra/TabUltra:11/2023-03-29_18-15_3.3.2_108d427855/39548:user/dev-keys
Onyx/Palma/Palma:11/2023-08-07_07-03_3.4_e74364442c/41885:user/dev-keys

Which is clearly not the 3.5

[ottischwenk]

My Tab Ultra shows

[Renate]

Thanks. I wish I knew what it was querying. I tried some new wrinkles which still return the same old results.

[ottischwenk]

Today I got update 3.5 for Leaf 2 (OK) and Poke 5? (Aktualisierung gescheitert)

[Renate]

I can see!
Poke5P -> Onyx/Poke5P/Poke5P:11/2023-11-17_05-41_3.5_801526b7d/6777:user/dev-keys
Leaf2 -> Onyx/Leaf2/Leaf2:11/2023-11-16_18-56_3.5_801526b7d/6774:user/dev-keys
Poke3 is still showing 3.3.1 from a year ago.

Always be sure to check your model. The "Poke5" is actually "Poke5P".

I downloaded the Poke5 update.upx and it's an 300 MB incremental update instead of the 1.5 GB full update we've had for a while. That was to be expected.

Also, it seems to use new operations in payload.bin that are not supported in older utilities. It's probably another compression algorithm. I'll look...

[ottischwenk]

Originally Posted by Renate

I downloaded the Poke5 update.upx

From where? Did the update work?

[Sonnenfee]

The update 3.5 for the Poke5 isn’t installable on my device. The update is shown as available but at least the last step doesn’t work. The battery is full enough and the sleep mode is set to 30 min. so this causes not the problems why it doesn’t work.

[Sonnenfee]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

Poke 5? (Aktualisierung gescheitert)

The same issue as on my Poke5.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

From where? Did the update work?

Poke5 = http://firmware-us-volc.boox.com/dcf...d3b/update.upx

adb push update.upx /sdcard
adb shell
am start -a onyx.settings.action.firmware

I pushed the Update button, it said "Decrypting, etc".
It just returned "Updated [sic] failed" and deleted /sdcard/update.upx

The funny thing is, I can no longer see that there is an update for the Poke5.
Did they screw it up and just rescind the update?
I queried a bunch of times and sometimes it returned the same as before and sometimes 204 (No content). 204 on a browser is hard to see because it's not an error but it will not change your current view at all!

I tried updating again. It goes happily through decrypting, then does updating for a while before fail.

[ottischwenk]

Originally Posted by Renate

It just returned "Updated [sic] failed" and deleted /sdcard/update.upx

The funny thing is, I can no longer see that there is an update for the Poke5.
Did they screw it up and just rescind the update?

I tried again. It goes happily through decrypting, then does updating for a while before fail.

I think, the update file is buggy

[Renate]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

I think, the update file is buggy

If it's any consolation I tried to decode the payload and it didn't make a lot of sense.

Op 10, Offset 0, Size 310, Start 0, Count 1
Op 9, Offset 310, Size 5681404, Start 1, Count 3746
Op 4, Offset 0, Size 0, Start 3747, Count 351
Op 6, Offset 0, Size 0, Start 4100, Count 512
Op 6, Offset 0, Size 0, Start 4612, Count 512
Op 6, Offset 0, Size 0, Start 5124, Count 512
Op 6, Offset 0, Size 0, Start 5636, Count 512
Op 6, Offset 0, Size 0, Start 6148, Count 512
...

This dumper can't do anything with PUFFDIFF (9) or BROTLI_BSDIFF (10) anyway.

[kandwo]

The whole update process seems to be buggy.

Earlier today I got a popup asking if I wanted to update my Leaf 2 to the latest firmware. My battery was low so I decided to charge it first, and while charging it went to sleep. Later, when I decided to update, the popup was gone and in firmware update settings it now claims that I'm already on the latest firmware (which is the old one from 5th of May).

I guess I missed the "window" and have to wait for the next batch, as it were...