9Xtreme not working after flash
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:40 am
Greetings - I'll preface by saying that I'm fairly new to the RC world, so please bear with me.
I recently upgraded my Turnigy 9x with the 9Xtreme board, and when I first installed it and turned it on, everything appeared to be functioning normally - though I never did bind it or use it on my quadcopter.
I then connected it via USB to my Mac and attempted to update the firmware (ersky9x9XT_rom.bin) using eePe. After the process was complete, I disconnected from my Mac and when I turned on the transmitter, the LED flashed different colors and there was a moaning sound coming from the speaker. When I plugged the 9Xtreme into the USB, however, the erSky9X splash screen came up and the transmitter seemed to function normally (again - I didn't bind it) and I was able to access all of the menus and confirm all controls were registering as functional.
Thinking something may have somehow lost connection between the 9Xtreme and my 9X (I now realize that doesn't make sense), I uninstalled, then reinstalled the 9Xtreme board and when I plugged it in again to my Mac, there was no connection signified on my Mac and no drives were available. I connected to my PC, and the computer did signify a connection (2 tones), but again, there was nothing visible on my computer to indicate a connection. The USB cord works for data transfer on other items I have.
Now that I've re-installed the 9Xtreme, when I turn it on, nothing happens aside from a slight humming sound from the speaker - no more flashing from the LED even. I did notice a nick in the silicon shielding of one of the wires connecting the 9Xtreme to the USB port, but the wire remains intact (hence the electric tape in the pic).When I plug it into the USB, it displays "9Xtreme" in the center of the screen with "r00.3" in the left lower corner, but it still does not register at all on my Mac, and only makes the tones when I plug it into my PC, but neither one shows that something is connected to the USB otherwise.
I did try putting the firmware file into a folder titled "firmware" on my SD card when I was adding the voice files, but this did not seem to solve the problem.
I did discuss this with Steve, and we are going to try replacing the USB port & cable, but he also suggested that I appeal to you good people to see if anyone may have an idea as to whether this could possibly be a firmware problem.
At Steve's advise, I did uninstall the 9Xtreme again, and when I turned the 9X on, it just displayed "9Xtreme" in the center of the screen with "r00.3" in the left lower corner, but is otherwise non-functional.
Any and all help will be most appreciated.
Again - my apologies for anything I may have missed in explaining, as I am new to this world, but I am excited to learn more and suspect I'll learn something from this - one way or another.
Not sure if it'll help, but I'll include pics of my install.
I recently upgraded my Turnigy 9x with the 9Xtreme board, and when I first installed it and turned it on, everything appeared to be functioning normally - though I never did bind it or use it on my quadcopter.
I then connected it via USB to my Mac and attempted to update the firmware (ersky9x9XT_rom.bin) using eePe. After the process was complete, I disconnected from my Mac and when I turned on the transmitter, the LED flashed different colors and there was a moaning sound coming from the speaker. When I plugged the 9Xtreme into the USB, however, the erSky9X splash screen came up and the transmitter seemed to function normally (again - I didn't bind it) and I was able to access all of the menus and confirm all controls were registering as functional.
Thinking something may have somehow lost connection between the 9Xtreme and my 9X (I now realize that doesn't make sense), I uninstalled, then reinstalled the 9Xtreme board and when I plugged it in again to my Mac, there was no connection signified on my Mac and no drives were available. I connected to my PC, and the computer did signify a connection (2 tones), but again, there was nothing visible on my computer to indicate a connection. The USB cord works for data transfer on other items I have.
Now that I've re-installed the 9Xtreme, when I turn it on, nothing happens aside from a slight humming sound from the speaker - no more flashing from the LED even. I did notice a nick in the silicon shielding of one of the wires connecting the 9Xtreme to the USB port, but the wire remains intact (hence the electric tape in the pic).When I plug it into the USB, it displays "9Xtreme" in the center of the screen with "r00.3" in the left lower corner, but it still does not register at all on my Mac, and only makes the tones when I plug it into my PC, but neither one shows that something is connected to the USB otherwise.
I did try putting the firmware file into a folder titled "firmware" on my SD card when I was adding the voice files, but this did not seem to solve the problem.
I did discuss this with Steve, and we are going to try replacing the USB port & cable, but he also suggested that I appeal to you good people to see if anyone may have an idea as to whether this could possibly be a firmware problem.
At Steve's advise, I did uninstall the 9Xtreme again, and when I turned the 9X on, it just displayed "9Xtreme" in the center of the screen with "r00.3" in the left lower corner, but is otherwise non-functional.
Any and all help will be most appreciated.
Again - my apologies for anything I may have missed in explaining, as I am new to this world, but I am excited to learn more and suspect I'll learn something from this - one way or another.
Not sure if it'll help, but I'll include pics of my install.