Core 2 bricked after attempting to install firmware
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Was going through the very first boot. Default stuff worked fine. Went to install UIFlow_Core2 Official and after it burnt, went and rebooted, ended up with black screen and no lights.
All drivers are installed on Win11.
When I hit the power button, in the Burner software, it flashes COM5 but then comes back and shows NO COM PORTs at all, and I cannot do anything.
I have searched out how to erase or reset, but NOTHING so far has worked. There is NO erase button in the Burner software. I tried the EasyLoader software, but no COM ports are listed.
I have also tried multiple USB ports and cables. No results. No lights, no sounds, no screen, nothing. PC only beeps, quickly shows the COM port in the Burner software, then promptly forgets there is a COM port at all.
Again, all I did was attempt to install the official UIFlow_Core2 firmware so I could start trying some thing out in UIFLow.
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usually when you press "burn" in M5Burner there is red button "erase" thats even without M5 module being detected, before com port selection
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I must have a different version of the burner. I dont see an "erase" next to a burn. I get the dialog that comes up but again, it just says
"esptool.py v4.6.2
Serial port undefinedA fatal error occurred: Could not open undefined, the port doesn't exist"
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Can you use arduino and load say the factory test? I've been having great success with the Core2 running almost identical code as my M5 (but using their M5Core2 library - which supports the M5Stick api's.)
I'm using a mac not windows.
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@deckyon Erase come up after you click on the burn button, its on the finale screen where you select port.
Are you making sure that you are burning UIFLow for Core2?
Hold the reset button on the core2 for 5 seconds and then release and a port may appear.
what ever you did is blocking the series port of the core 2.failing that you will need to open the core 2 to expose the internal programming header and program with an external USB to UART adapter.
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The problem is NO com ports are showing. Com5 flashes when I first plug it in, but then disappears. Also, no lights come on anymore at all on the Core2 when plugged in either.
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Try using arduino to write a simple Hello world code to the core as arduino often forces an install
Failing that you will need to remove the base and connect a USB to UART adapter to the internal TX/RX pins and override the core2's onboard adapter
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@ajb2k3 So, yeah, there is no forcing at this point. I have never used or know how to use USB to UART nor where I would even try plugging anything in. This is my first foray into anything like this
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@Deckyon is your Core2 com port (com 5 you mentioned) vanishes from Windows Device Manager too?
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Try removing the base, hold the reset button (next to the card slot), plug the USB cable in.
Does windows report an error with any com ports?
It is Very hard to fully brick any M5Stack controller as I have tried and recovered many, many times.
One thing I did find is that the driver on the host computer is very unstable and prone to hard crashing. When you get a hard driver crash you need to do a hard shutdown of the computer. which means the host computer MUST be fully powered of for 30 seconds ignorer for the host computers ram to be wiped of data!
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@robski That is correct.
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@ajb2k3 No go. No errors and no lights on the Core2. It's just dead.
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@ajb2k3 said in Core 2 bricked after attempting to install firmware:
Failing that you will need to remove the base and connect a USB to UART adapter to the internal TX/RX pins and override the core2's onboard adapter
Having a similar issue with one of my two Core2 v1.1's I am wondering how this works exactly? I assume we are talking about the 4pin connector with (DP, DM, GND, 5V)? In which case DP/DM is TX/RX - although I am not sure which would be which.
@ajb2k3 said in Core 2 bricked after attempting to install firmware:
Try removing the base, hold the reset button (next to the card slot), plug the USB cable in.
Does not seem to do anything. Although I do seem to on rare orations be able to get it into some state where the computer recognises it as a serial port. But it also seems not to actually work when I try to write to it.
@ajb2k3 said in Core 2 bricked after attempting to install firmware:
One thing I did find is that the driver on the host computer is very unstable and prone to hard crashing. When you get a hard driver crash you need to do a hard shutdown of the computer. which means the host computer MUST be fully powered of for 30 seconds ignorer for the host computers ram to be wiped of data!
Having two devices sort of rules that out. The other device works without issue for now.
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In windows 11, does the system control panel show any errors on the com ports?
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If you have a COM issue that when you hit the power button COM port connect and disconnects. Press the power button and when the port connects press and hold the reset button. Hold it until you start flashing the new files.
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None of the tricks with holding buttons does anything for the device I have that does not present a serial port over USB. While I'm mainly on macOS I can't make it do anything in Windows either. There I will just have an "Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed" entry in Device Manager.
So I'm more interested in how to connect directly to the internal TX/RX pins. But I am not entirely sure how to access them on this board.
Looking at the schematics more closely It seems the on-board connector is also for USB. But I am having a little trouble figuring out if any of the "M-BUS" pins connect. Maybe G1 and G18? G1 makes sense from the markings (TXD0). But G18 is marked as SCK (So a clock signal?) and G3 (marked RXD0) would make more sense.
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@ajb2k3 No errors. The device itself has no lights that come on at all, even the blue on next to the SD slot. Win11 shows no COM errors when it is plugged in. Yes, multiple cables, multiple USB slots.
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@mrmcquaid tried that many times - it just seems to be burnt out. It wont flash, no lights. There is the quick succession of beeps where the computer notices something has been plugged in, then the beep of it disconnecting. In the burner the COM port flashes a number then goes back to blank.
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Have you tried updating the CH9102 usb drivers?
yes, GPIO 1 and 3 are the pins you need to directly connect to.
if you look at the sticker on the base
it sows which pins you need to use to bypass the CH9102.
If you have an arduino you need to program it as an ISP and then M5Burner should allow it to work instead of the CH9102 chip for programming.
Just remember that the Programmers TX must be connected G3 RXD and the programmers RX pin must be connected to G1 TXD pin along with the GND pin.
Connect 3v3 to the 3.3V pin or 5V to the 5V pin, do not connect both and do not have any other cables plugged in!
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@ajb2k3 said in Core 2 bricked after attempting to install firmware:
Have you tried updating the CH9102 usb drivers?
No. For me I have two identical devices. One works without issue. The other does not. On both macOS and Windows 11.
@ajb2k3 said in Core 2 bricked after attempting to install firmware:
yes, GPIO 1 and 3 are the pins you need to directly connect to.
Ah okay. My confusion is from here. That could indicate 1 and 18. But I realise now the wire that hits G18 is not what is labeled U0RX.
