Upgrade the Firmware

Windows(Legacy)

Preparation:

• Download the USB Upgrade Tool and extract it.
• Download the firmware .bin files from this directory and extract them.
• Connect your Tone to your PC using a USB-C data cable.

Installation:

• Run setup_eval.exe to install the tool to upgrade your Tone’s firmware.

• Press Yes, then disconnect and reconnect your Tone.

Upgrading:

• Open the TUSBAudio Firmware Upgrade tool, from your Start Menu.

• It should show Device Opened, which means your Tone is connected and ready for upgrading. (If not, disconnect and reconnect your Tone).

• Click Browse and load the firmware .bin file you extracted, into the tool.

• Click Start to begin the upgrade process.

• Once firmware has upgraded, click Exit.

• Uninstall the EVAL driver that you used for upgrading firmware, and re-install the v224 driver.
• Alternatively, if you’re on Windows 10, uninstall all Khadas-supplied drivers and use the native Win10 UAC2 driver supplied with the OS.

Ubuntu(Legacy)

Preparation:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev

Download Burning Tool:

Tone DFU burning tool on Ubuntu is in utils repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/khadas/utils

Or just pull it (if you have already cloned this repository).

$ cd /path/to/utils
$ git pull

Install Burning Tool:

You need to install USB rules and create some links.

$ cd /path/to/utils/tone-dfu-tool
$ sudo ./INSTALL

You will see this print-out if it was successful.

[sudo] password for nick: 
 
===============================================
 
Host PC: Ubuntu 20.04
 
===============================================
 
Installing USB rules...
Installing tone-burn-tool...
Done!

Upgrading:

• Download the firmware files from this directory and extract them to somewhere like your Home folder.
• Open a Terminal window, and cd into your Home folder.
  

  $ cd /home/*

• Run the tool with your firmware file of choice (drag and drop your .bin file to replace /path/to/firmware.bin).
  

  $ sudo tone-burn-tool -i /path/to/firmware.bin

• If upgrading was done successfully, you should see:
  

  Upgrading Tone firmware...
  Khadas Tone1 detected!
  Tone DFU application started - Interface 2 claimed
  Detaching device from application mode.
  Waiting for device to restart and enter DFU mode...
  ... DFU firmware upgrade device opened
  ... Downloading image (Tone1_Firmware_V2.00_201016.bin) to device
  ... Download complete
  ... Returning device to application mode

Uninstall Burning Tool:

$ cd /path/to/utils/tone-dfu-tool
$ sudo ./UNINSTALL

Mac OS(Legacy)

Preparation:

Download the ready to use dfu tool to somewhere like:~/Desktop.

$ wget https://dl.khadas.com/products/tone2/dfu_tool/tone_dfu_tool_macos
$ chmod +x ./tone_dfu_tool_macos

Upgrading:

• Download a firmware file from https://dl.khadas.com/Firmware/ToneBoard/, then extract the .zip file.
• Connect your Tone to your Macbook / iMac via a USB-C data cable.
• Return to Terminal and type ./tone_dfu_tool –download, followed by space, and drag the firmware.bin you just downloaded, from the Finder into Terminal. Then hit Enter.
• If successful, you should see the following Terminal output:
  

  $ ./tone_dfu_tool --download /path/to/Tone2_Pro_DFU_TEST201228_nothing.bin 
  VID = 0x3353, PID = 0xa002
  Khadas Tone2 Pro detected!
  Tone DFU application started - Interface 2 claimed
  Detaching device from application mode.
  Waiting for device to restart and enter DFU mode...
  VID = 0x3353, PID = 0xa002
  ... DFU firmware upgrade device opened
  ... Downloading image (/path/to/Tone2_Pro_DFU_TEST201228_nothing.bin) to device
  ... Download complete
  ... Returning device to application mode