Unable to flash Pico

Posted on Sat 12th, May 2018

• #1

BillHoy

Tried to update Pico from v96 to v97 thru IDE (able to Flash Espruino, WiFi) but receive "Connection Failed" with the Pico. I was previously able too upgrade to v96 but something has happened in between 96 and 97. Anybody experienced this also? Used the same process as always which worked as expected.
• #2

Gordon

If you flashed a Original or WiFi beforehand and then immediately flashed a Pico, the IDE may have assumed you were still using one of them and updated the wrong firmware?

Perhaps you could try restarting the IDE and flashing - then it should realise it doesn't know what the board is and ask you which board you want to update?
• #3

allObjects

...in other words, a disconnect and reconnect aren't sufficient to detect a device change, or replace components loaded specifically for a device when that device first connected.

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