Why does the Librem 5 flasher only show a partial percentage (42)? Is this normal?
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That can happen if
a) an application displays progress by continually overwriting the current line of the screen, and
b) something else writes a line to the screen.
In addition to saying “42%” it does say “Success 1 Failure 0” and “100%” so I would think that it did actually work and you should go ahead and boot.
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I ran it several more times and none of them reach full percentage
$ ./scripts/librem5-flash-image --embedded-boot --image /home/usr/ISOs/mobian/20250817/mobian-librem5-plasma-mobile-20250817.img
2025-08-18 03:10:33 INFO Looking for librem5 u-boot
2025-08-18 03:10:33 INFO Found uboot Build "stable" from Wed Jun 21 13:54:04 2023
2025-08-18 03:10:33 INFO Downloading to ./tmp_librem5-flash-image_c8a62u10
2025-08-18 03:10:33 INFO Downloading uboot from https://storage.puri.sm/librem5/u-boot/latest/artifact/output/uboot-librem5/u-boot-librem5.imx
61%|█████████████████▌ | 753664/1240604 [00:00<00:00, 4019814.93it/s]uuu (Universal Update Utility) for nxp imx chips -- lib1.4.193
Success 1 Failure 0
7:2 11/11 [Done ] FB: Done
100%|████████████████████████████| 1240604/1240604 [00:20<00:00, 4019814.93it/s]
Flashing complete.
2025-08-18 03:17:24 INFO Cleaning up.
The USB-C cable has seen better days and I was worried perhaps it needed to be replaced or perhaps the transfer was incomplete.
But, if this is a normal response from the script then this okay.
Thank you so much.
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