KIPR Link Developer Resources (Under Construction)

These steps will void your warranty.

If the Link fails to boot to standard mode or recovery mode, these steps can be used to manually flash the internal micro-SD card. The following steps require a Torx screwdriver, a micro-SD card reader (or SD card reader and adapter), and an Operating System supporting dd (nix or Mac OS X).

• Remove the warranty sticker from the Link’s case.
• Remove the four bottom screws using a Torx screwdriver.
• Locate the micro-SD card hinge (by the power switch).
• Push the hinge towards the inside of the case and lift up.
• Place the recovered micro-SD card in card reader.
• The OS will probably auto-mount the contents of the drive and possibly display some error messages. Ignore these error messages and unmount the SD card if auto-mounted.
• Determine the appropriate device file to write to in \texttt{/dev}. This can easily be determined by removing the card, running ls /dev > 1, inserting the card again, and running ls /dev > 2 && diff 1 2. The correct device file will not have any numerical suffix.
• Download the KIPR Link firmware file to install.
• Extract the KIPR Link firmware file using gunzip.

Triple check that the determined device file is indeed the micro-SD card. Choosing the wrong device file could overwrite your hard drive disk!

Finally, sudo dd if=image.img of=/dev/determined_device_file bs=1M (the M might be lowercase on your platform).