About particle firmwave update

[WEIMING lai]

Hi everyone
I'm from Taiwan
sorry my English poor
I try to that you understand how to I said
Ok !when I link wifi to particle
He show me the windows he say I need
Update firmware.
Have anyone have same problem with me?
I have reset l3d before ,then he can not work now
Please help ,thank

[Werner M.]

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Post screenshot ("Alt" + "Print Scr"). Will try to help you.

[WEIMING lai]

Werner M.於 2015年9月15日星期二 UTC+8上午10時53分47秒寫道：

[Werner M.]

OK so this is not a problem.

This is the phone app telling you that it will update the firmware on your device.

Did you proceed to the end? (click "understood", etc, etc)? What happened then?

[Alvin Lee]

All the apps is saying is that your particle is undergoing a firmware update and it will take some time, and that you should wait till it is done, and that you should not press the reset until it's done. Let's wait for some ten minutes and see if it's done updating afterwards? 

[Werner M.]

If this is the first time you are connecting AND if the photon is flashing purple, then you should not touch it.
It may take over 10 min to complete.
When done updating, the photon should go back to 'breathing cyan' light. Then you can go to cubetube.org and load the demo sketch to your cube again.
If this does not happen: post again with results.

[Alvin Lee]

Quick answer: All you need to do is wait and it shall be ok say some ten minutes later. If it's not breathing Cyan like this after the long wait, then find us again.

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Long version: 

I also flashed a photon just now and confirmed that there must be an update loaded onto it during the first time you start up the photon --- the most recent photons were shipped out with 0.4.4 release and the latest one is 0.4.5, released a few days ago. I believe that the message you saw is meant to tell you that it could be a long wait before your photon is done updating.

Note: Once you connect the photon to wifi, it will update itself automatically AND wipe out the demo code or whatsoever in it. You thus need to load up the code again from Cubetube's gallery. 

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I'll do a Chinese version as you said you are from TW...

Short answer:

等就可以了, 那個訊息只是告訴你 「你的 photon 可能需要 update 它的 firmware, 然那個 update 是需要時間的, 請耐心等候」的意思, 所以慢慢等, 直至 photon 上亮起了淺藍的呼吸燈, 這表示已經可以用了.

Long answer:

首先, 請確認你手機上的 particle app 是最新版本...

然後是你手上的 photon 也是最新版本. <--這點你可以不需確認了, 因為寄出時的 photon 最新也只去到 0.4.4 版, 然後 particle 公司那邊已經更新到 0.4.5 了

在你跟著 particle app 的指引完成一連串步驟後, app 會說你的 photon 已經 set up 了, 但那並不表示你可以立刻開始使用的, 這裡讓人很 confuse 呢.

如果這是你的 photon 的第一次成功連線, 那它上面的 LED 會不時發出幾種不同的顏色 -- 綠 / 淺藍 / 紫. 

紫色的意思是它在下載東西.... 可能是 firmware, 可能程式, 但不論是哪一個, 你要做到事也是一樣的 -- 不要碰它, 讓它慢慢完成它要做的事吧? 如果你的 photon 很久沒 update 或 WiFi 訊號很差, 這個紫色閃 10 分鐘也是有可能的哦, 所以請耐心的等候好了. 有時也會在紫色閃完了,換了色後, 又閃回紫色的. 這是很正常的, 請不要被嚇到.

當所有工序也完成了後, 你的 photon 會亮起淺藍的呼吸燈, 這就表示你的 photon 已經可以用了. 這時, 你的 particle app 未必一定會顯示出已連結了的 photon 的, 把 app 關了重開看看吧? 你也可以到這裡去, 用你在 app 中輸入過的用戶名稱和密碼登入, 再把你的 photon 插入電源, 然後隨便進入一個程式, 去看看 dropdown menu 中有沒有一個有著奇怪名字 (隨機命名的) photon. 如果有的話表示你已經可以直接下載程式到你的 L3D 了.