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Re: Board dead

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Originally Posted by DBZBT2 View Post
and then the error box saying that "the program button is being held" comes up.
I know this sounds obvious, but could the button really be stuck?


I know that we had an issue this year that sounds quite similar. We are working with a few students that are not used to using anything but the default code. So, programming the RC is new to them. It was common for a student to continue to hold the programming button down for 10+ seconds. This puts the RC is some weird state that I can't describe, but I know it is not good, but is recoverable.

When this happened, we would power down the RC and cold boot it again. That usually fixed it. But once, we got stuck where I think you are. We recovered by downloading the master code (.bin file) and then our user code.
After several deep breaths, we were back on the air.
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