Suggest using upstream Android platform tools to reflash BeagleV Ahead
I recently bought a BeagleV Ahead and had some difficulty getting the WiFi to work on the Yocto firmware the board ships with. (https://docs.beagleboard.org/latest/boards/beaglev/ahead/02-quick-start.html#connect-to-wifi). So I decided to reflash the board with Ubuntu, where I'm experienced with WiFi troubleshooting.
I have a number of Linux hosts available but the most convenient is Fedora 40 on an x86_64 laptop, so I went with these instructions.(https://docs.beagleboard.org/latest/boards/beaglev/ahead/02-quick-start.html#flashing-emmc). Unfortunately, the reflash errored out. The details are here: (https://forum.beagleboard.org/t/flashing-ubuntu-to-beaglev-ahead-crashes/38134?u=znmeb).
The problem is that there is a bug in the version of the Android tools that ship with Fedora. Removing the Fedora package and installing the official tools from Google (https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools) fixed it, and I was able to bring Ubuntu up on the board and get WiFi working. See (https://forum.beagleboard.org/t/flashing-ubuntu-to-beaglev-ahead-crashes/38134/5?u=znmeb) for details.
So I would suggest re-writing the documentation on how to flash the BeagleV Ahead on Linux systems to specify using the official Android tools instead of the packages that ship with the Linux distribution. I haven't found any common Linux distribution that uses the newest official version; I checked Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed and they all have the old version.