Hello Wayne,
Yeah I tried with 3 different windows PC's and one Mac, all had the same issue :/
I got the mainboard replaced now from Microtechnics where I bought my TX from, and guess what.. worked right away
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That sounds like the issue that happened to me, also related to when burning new firmware (most recent).
And that made the radio "bricked", I was lucky to get the mainboard replaced fast and I did the exact same thing now with the new board and it worked just fine.
So I am happy to say that my Taranis has come back to life again.
At first I was sure it was a computer issue, I tried all 3 computers at home (2 Win7 pcs and one Mac) none worked.. so I brought my Taranis with me to work and tried it on our isolated lab enviroment with no internet access and it had the same problem as well to recognize the Tx.
Regards,
Fredrik
rotozuk wrote:Hayvosh - Have you tried a different computer to burn the firmware? I suspect this may be a computer issue, not the Taranis.
The other day a customer picked up his new Taranis and wanted to use Companion with it. Well, after many hours of messing around on 4 different computers he could not get Companion to work right, and was ready to return the radio. He was sure something was wrong with the radio. I sat down with him, and I installed Companion on his laptop (computer #5), set the preferences for the Taranis and it worked right away. I showed him some things in the software and he was very happy. I then decided to update his firmware and this resulted in a bricked radio. The Radio would not turn on. DEAD. I tried the firmware install again, and still nothing. No errors were reported by Companion. I had noticed some signs of malware on his computer, so I decided to update the firmware from my computer, and the radio was working perfectly after the install. Customer is happy, and I suggested he cleans his computer.
One day later I get an email from another customer that bricked his Taranis after updating the firmware. He has tried updating a few times and Companion reports the process was fine, but the radio will not turn on. I'm trying to get the customer to mail this radio back for further testing, but he just located another Taranis user in his club and is going to see if he can get it up first.
These issues are very strange and I am not sure they are related to the Taranis. I'm suspecting that something is happening with the firmware transfer. At least that would appear to have been the case with the first example above as I used the same exact process, even the same USB cable.
If anyone has experienced this issue I'd love to hear the details. And if you fixed it, please share those details too. We have seen NO main board failures on the Taranis at Aloft Hobbies. We have had 2 of the back boards damaged by users. One killed the USB port while playing around, and the other bricked the radio's power source.
This new bricking issue seems very rare, I have heard of 3 occasions, all listed in this thread now.
Again, I only suspect this to be a computer issue. This is so rare, it is very hard to say at this point.
-Wayne