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•Created by pt on 12/30/2024 in #🛟-help
Unable to reset the board
Hi! I just finished building my first Corne today, and I'm having flashing issues. I followed the steps in Joe's helpful walkthrough video: connected the left board to my laptop, dragged the left .u2f file onto it, disconnected, and did the same for the right-hand side. But something went wrong somewhere.
When I flashed the left side, the nice!view display started to function properly: it showed the battery level, the layers, etc. When I flashed the right side, the nice!view remained blank. I wasn't sure whether it was supposed to display something already, so I went ahead and paired the two halves to one another and to my computer. The left side functions well. The right side functions poorly: the top and bottom row keys don't work (middle row works fine), and the screen still didn't turn on.
I then tried resetting both sides and starting from scratch. The reset button on the right side seems to work. But on the left side, it seems to do nothing. I've pressed it several times (including double presses) and the screen remains on, the board remains connected to my laptop, and it continues to work fine. I've pressed the reset button both while the board was wired to the laptop and while it wasn't, and both while it was on and off. In no case am I able to get the board to show up as an external device for me to flash.
So my issues are: left side works well but can't be reset, while right side doesn't work so well: top and bottom row are dead and screen doesn't work (there is a difference between the screen's "on" and "off" states, but the "on" state doesn't display anything meaningful).
Since this was my first time soldering, it is very much possible that I messed up some of the connections on the right side. However, I examined all solderable connections after soldering and while they weren't pretty, each pin seemed securely soldered.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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