MuditaOS/doc/flashing_win_macos.md

Windows and macOS - flashing Pure with image

1. Run Mudita Pure in USB MSC (Mass Storage Class) mode

• Switch off the phone and remove the battery (you won't need it for flashing)
• hold the center button (selection)
• plug in the USB cable
• wait while the text menu scrolls from the bottom
• release the center button
• choose USB MSC mode

2. Flashing on Windows and macOS

• download balenaEtcher from the website for your operating system. The downloaded file is either called balenaEtcher-Setup-{version}.exe (for Windows) or balenaEtcher-{version}.dmg (for MacOS) and will be used to install the application on your computer.

• install the balenaEtcher application.
• download the MuditaOS image you want to use and extract it locally.

Note: unzipped image has 16 GB

The .xz image is compressed twice using both tar and xz. Some unpackers will only extract .tar which should be extracted again to get a PurePhone.img file.

• Run balenaEtcher application and choose Flash from file and the ISO image as the image type. Load unzipped image onto the target device. It might look something like this:

• press `Flash!`` and confirm if asked for the superuser password.
• wait for the flashing to complete:

• reboot the phone.

Note: In order to reboot the phone, do the following:

• Eject the drive from your Operating System (either using Safely remove on Windows, or Eject on Linux), or
• Reboot the phone by disconnecting it from the power supply (USB cable and battery) and connecting it to the relevant power source again.