How to Erase user data?

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G120

Is there a method to Erase user data?

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I mean Setting data.
I save setting data with EWR. I want to clear all the setting data,how to do that?

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If you upload the firmware again, then it’s deleted.
But that’s might not be what you want !?

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This is not my wanted. I just want to delete the setting data.

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If your software created the data, couldn’t you just code something to reset it in some way?

What I do with saved data is store a MAGIC NUMBER in a long. If this does not match the value when I read the data, I assume the data was never created (or is corrupted somehow) and set defaults. This way, all have to do is create a new magic number in the source when I want to make sure the data will be new.

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I save setting data with EWR, sometimes i can’t read the setting data for unknown reason.
But when i clear the setting data with MFDeploy.exe, saving and reading with EWR worked. So i want clear the setting data before saving the new setting data, it maybe worked for saving and reading with EWR everytime.

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Saving and reading with EWR is not stable. So i want to clear the EWR data to make sure the EWR working.

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Sector Start Size Usage

 0            0x00000000          0x00005000   Bootstrap
 1            0x00005000          0x0000b000   Code
 2            0x00010000          0x00070000   Code
 3            0xf0000000          0x00020000   Bootstrap
 4            0xf0020000          0x00100000   Code
 5            0xf0120000          0x00280000   Deployment
 6            0xf03a0000          0x00010000   Bootstrap
 7            0xf03b0000          0x00020000   Storage (A)
 8            0xf03d0000          0x00020000   Storage (B)
 9            0xf03f0000          0x00010000   Configuration

Can i write and read the sector directly? Since i known the start address through the top info. for example: GHI.Premium.Hardware.LowLevel.AddressSpace.Write(0xf03b0000, buffer, 0, length);

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This should work I guess

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string test = “test”;
byte[] buffer = System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(test);
GHI.Premium.Hardware.LowLevel.AddressSpace.Write(0xf03b0000, buffer, 0, buffer.Length);

It does not work, why?

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You can’t write to flash like that, only read.

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How can i write to flash?

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EWR is not stable, so i want to write/read to flash directly. people in GHI said i can’t write to flash using GHI.Premium.Hardware.LowLevel.AddressSpace.Write(0xf03b0000, buffer, 0, buffer.Length). How can i write to flash?

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Hello GHI, help me please. How can i write to flash directly? I’m waiting… Thanks a lot

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It’s the middle of the night in the USA just now so consider timezones and wait a few hours until they are back in the office or checking from their home PC’s.

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Midlle of the night maybe but this issue exists since a Big while and no solution has been proposed except to not use EWR…

So should we consider there’s some flash on these devices?

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We do not support this today but we will look into it in the near future. Writing directly will not work as the ewr will over write it.