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Originally Posted by ForgottenSalad
Is it just me or does this seem to be sort of an undecided thing... IFI rep says diagnostic mode, someone else says low power, someone else says firmware uploading... Or is it really just seem to be a buggy thing that just happens at random times...?
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I know for a fact that IFI has been adding tons of diagnostics to the controllers. For example, by putting the radio connectors into the competition port as well they can now do more checks on the field. Plus, the way that your team color light blinks gives blink codes that if you knew the codes, from the side of the field could tell if the robot has low battery, program code error, disabled, etc. The IFI guys know what the codes are and it helps when they are trying to find issues. Yea, maybe it is a bug that they labeled diagnostic mode... or maybe it is actually a diagnostic mode with a glitch where it accidentally goes into that mode from time to time.
Maybe a future firmware update will correct the issue with going into this "diagnostic mode" sporadically (I know it's happened to us a few times, mostly on the old controller, I don't think it's happened on the 2005 one though), but like others have said... when that happens, a simple reset fixes the problem. So, keep your batteries charged and don't press the program button for too long and you should be fine
I'm sure there are many people out there who check their rep screen every 20 minutes in hope of positive reinforcement in a unique community, where they may not get positive reinforcement for sharing information in their home, school, or robotics program. - Eugenia Gabrielov [more] 
31-03-2005, 05:40
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