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Re: ANTMINER S4 Black Friday Deals 0.409USD/GH/s, FREE International Shipping
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MissouriMiner
on 19/12/2014, 14:47:14 UTC
Quote from: neo9436 on December 19, 2014, 02:38:00 PM
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How many people have upgraded the S4 firmware to: initramfs.bin.SD-20141016.tar.gz from the bitmain website?

I only ask because mine is still running on the factory firmware no problem with difficulty manually set, so I'm kind of wondering if I should bother with the upgrade.

I don't think you'll be able to get an accurate number of people Smiley

Even if you don't currently have any problems you might have issues if you ever want to switch pools. I had trouble with some rentals - for some reason even December delivery S4s came with old firmware - upgraded to the 1016 version and haven't seen any problems since.

I really only asked because I've been seeing people have more problems after upgrading the firmware (not necessarily with the S4, but with S3's for sure), and I've kind of been taking the "If it isn't broke don't fix it" position with my miners.

I hear you. I haven't touched my S3s since July-August. The latest S3 upgrade (November something) seems to be borked. The 1016 S4 upgrade is fine and highly recommended because of the issues with low starting difficulties.

Okay so I finally got around to trying to upgrade the firmware on my S4. I've downloaded the initramfs.bin.SD-20141016.tar.gz file, and hit flash. I see that it uploads to 100%, but then after that, my connection times out and the miner does a factory reset.

I re-downloaded the file and tried numerous times, same result every time. Anyone else have this issue, or have any suggestions?

I would try a different Micro SD memory card.  First, you will have to put the base image on the new card.

Thanks. Is putting the base image on the new card difficult to do? Getting into bitcoin mining sure has given me a crash course in a bunch of stuff I never knew I'd be learning about.  Undecided

It's not hard.  Just have to find the steps.  They are around here somewhere.  First download "Win32 Disk Imager", assuming you have a Windows PC to use.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/  And then find the image file.  Search the forum for that.  The image file is not the same as the firmware upgrade files.

Also, if you haven't ejected the memory card and put it back in, try that first.  I haven't read the whole thread to see if you've done that.