RKDevTool crashing when trying to flash spinor loader

Hi all,

I am following the guide provided here using the Windows option: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/install/spi

long story short, I have the board connected and identified as in maskrom mode, bin and img files are downloaded correctly and available. When clicking RUN, the progress reaches the Test Device Success stage and then the program silently exits.

These are the logs of the RKDevTool, any thoughts on how to troubleshoot the issue?

21:17:51 583	RKDevTool v2.9.6.0 start run
21:18:28 430	Layer<1-5>:Download Boot Start
21:18:32 413	Layer<1-5>:Download Boot Success
21:18:32 414	Layer<1-5>:Wait For Maskrom Start
21:18:32 863	Layer<1-5>:Wait For Maskrom Success
21:18:32 864	Layer<1-5>:Test Device Start
21:18:32 874	Layer<1-5>:Test Device Success
21:18:32 883	Layer<1-5>:Check Chip Start
21:18:32 891	Layer<1-5>: Check Chip Success
21:18:32 901	Layer<1-5>:Get FlashInfo Start
21:18:32 909	<LAYER 1-5> INFO:FlashInfo: 00 80 00 00 80 00 04 00 28 00 01
21:18:32 918	<LAYER 1-5> INFO:GetFlashInfo-->Nor storage.
21:18:32 928	Layer<1-5>:Get FlashInfo Success
21:18:32 937	Layer<1-5>:Prepare IDB Start
21:18:32 945	<LAYER 1-5> INFO:CS(1)		(16MB)		(SAMSUNG)
21:18:32 957	Layer<1-5>:Prepare IDB Success
21:18:32 965	Layer<1-5>:Download IDB Start
21:18:32 974	<LAYER 1-5> INFO:DownloadIDBlock-->New IDB
21:18:34 485	Layer<1-5>:Download IDB Success
21:18:34 487	Layer<1-5>:Wait For Maskrom Start
21:18:34 934	Layer<1-5>:Wait For Maskrom Success
21:18:34 935	Layer<1-5>:Test Device Start
21:18:34 946	Layer<1-5>:Test Device Success

Resurrecting this thread. I have the exact same issue.

Hi, I fixed my issue by using the linux tool.

I ended up following instructions provided by Joshua Riek in https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/wiki/Radxa-ROCK-5B. Their bootloader is included in their OS image, but is otherwise available as a standalone download here: https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/issues/172

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