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ROCKCHIP BATCH TOOL FOR MAC INSTALL
ROCKCHIP BATCH TOOL FOR MAC UPGRADE

ROCKCHIP BATCH TOOL FOR MAC INSTALL

Wait a few seconds before releasing the recovery button, and your windows PC should start installing the drivers automatically, but you don’t want that, so don’t let it install the drivers now, and move to the next step. Press the recovery button with a paper clip, and at the same time insert the other end of the USB cable into the OTG port of your device. The right hole is the power LED, and the left hole, the recovery button. Now look at the back of MK908 with the HDMI connector pointing upwards, you should see 2 small holes at the top of the devices.

Get the mini USB to USB cable, and connect it to your Windows PC.

Uncompress those 3 files in a directory in a Windows PC.

Download the firmware file for your device.

Download RkBatchTool 1.6 (password: GEEKBUYING.COM), the Windows only tool to flash firmware to RK3xxx devices, as well as RockUSB drivers v3.5, the USB drivers for Windows 2000/XP/vista/7/8.

The steps to install firmware to RK3188 based mini PCs, in this case MK908, are as follows: This method could also avoid to complete wipe out your settings and installed applications, although apps like Titanium Backup can help restore those after a full firmware update. The alternative would be to just copy some files to a micro SD card, insert it in the mini PC, boot the device, and wait for the firmware to complete. The best very way would be OTA updates, but maybe this is asking too much.

ROCKCHIP BATCH TOOL FOR MAC UPGRADE

Typical users should not be asked to install software and drivers, press the recovery button, just to upgrade their firmware. This method should just be used in case the device can’t boot, or you have serious issue with the device firmware, but it is also used for firmware upgrade for Rockchip mini PCs. Those instructions only work on Windows operating systems, so if you’re using Linux or Mac, you’re out of luck until you find a Windows PC, or launch Windows in a virtual machine.

This method use standard Rockchip tools, so it should work for any RK3188 devices.īut first a little rant. Yesterday, I’ve received MK908 mini PC featuring Rockchip RK3188, and a new firmware is available, so before further testing I’ll flash the firmware to the device basically using the instructions from Geekbuying.