Hey I had some issues with the Apollo2. After a week of running fine, the system wouldn't come awake when logging in so i had to turn it off by switch. It came back and had more freezing issues so I attempt to flash the sd with v2.0.5 mcu2. But Etcher gives an error message when I try to flash, "Attention Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted. Can't configure or trim a source that is not randomly readable, skipping". Any info on this error would be great.
It's an issue with etcher, download the previous version linked in the flash guide on the support page.
Verified I was using the linked version, balenaEtcher-1.18.11.dmg. Downloaded both etcher and mcu2 again to be sure. Unfortunately still getting the same error message from etcher when attempting flash.
Have you tried a second microsd card?
I got a second memory card programmed that fine and system is running stable.
I had more problems with the supplied microsd card. Maybe the card is old. Only 16GB. The newer card has more memory and is much faster than the original supplied microsd card.
Sounds more like an image corruption issue, I would checksum the image and make sure the download didn't corrupt or try and re-download the image.
I tried a few of the suggestions, erase/reformat the original card as well as trying a new sd card. Still the same error shows, it seems to be an issue with my image download (apollo-2-mcu2_040624.img.xz). I even downloaded the new etcher version to compare the errors and my issue is a different error message. I have tried to download the mcu2 image from multiple browsers, same result unfortunately. I ran checksum and I get the correct string too! The program won't let me copy paste but below is the top 25% of the scrolling error message. Thanks for the replies, stuck for now.
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Attention-Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted. Can't configure or trim a source that is not randomly readable, skipping
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