501a won't fly after camera upgrade

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rsw1158
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501a won't fly after camera upgrade

Post by rsw1158 » Sun Oct 14, 2018 11:58 pm

I tried to upgrade my firmware on 501a to the most recent. I tried to run the firmware upgrades for the RX and flight controller and it wouldn't work. I tried the TX upgrade and that wouldn't work. What I mean is that after downloading the files from hubsan and trying to open the files my PC wouldn't open them when trying to the upgrade. So I down loaded the camera upgrade onto a SD card and put that into my quad and it looked like it took as per directions to doing the upgrade. Now, my quad will not get to the calibration when I turn everything on and just beeps constant and has constant flashing lights. Any ideas?

DanKnoch
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Re: 501a won't fly after camera upgrade

Post by DanKnoch » Tue Oct 16, 2018 8:38 pm

Drone needs to have the battery plugged in prior to hooking the usb up. Seems to delete the firmware if you don't. Try with the battery plugged in. Be sure files are unzipped.

rsw1158
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Re: 501a won't fly after camera upgrade

Post by rsw1158 » Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:57 pm

Thanks. I'll retry making sure to do as you suggested.

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Re: 501a won't fly after camera upgrade

Post by rsw1158 » Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:51 am

Still won't work.

DanKnoch
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Re: 501a won't fly after camera upgrade

Post by DanKnoch » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:00 pm

Silly question but did you unzip the files? I unzipped mine right to the desktop to make them easy to find. You need to use the appropriate hubsan upgrade tools. Sorry about bad info: battery should be plugged in for Rx upgrade but unplugged for FC upgrade. It may take a few tries to get it to read. Lots of youtube videos on this.

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Re: 501a won't fly after camera upgrade

Post by DanKnoch » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:09 pm

The computer won't recognize the files, but the upgrade tools will. Use the h501a upgrade tool V1, unzip it to the desktop. Unzip the FC and Rx software to the desktop also. Open the upgrade tool software and connect the drone. From there, follow the prompts on the upgrade tool screen. For the transmitter, it needs to be put into upgrade mode, this can be googled and there are videos on youtube. From there use the appropriate upgrade tools for the transmitter (upgrade tool v2 for h906a). Follow the same procedure as the quad. Hope this helps.

rsw1158
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Re: 501a won't fly after camera upgrade

Post by rsw1158 » Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:43 am

Thanks. I got through all that ok and now I have a couple new problems. I have 3 controllers. During the upgrade process on my 501a, I did something wrong in the sequence so I tried again. I was not able to because now the controller is unresponsive. It will turn on but will do nothing. Just turns on and the Hubsan logo appears only. So I used another controller and was able to complete the upgrade with no issues. I would like for that controller to work. Any ideas? Problem 2 Is with my 501s. I trying to do the super flyer upgrade. When I try to do the RX part I get a message No upgrade tool and can't go any further. I can't figure it out.

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Re: 501a won't fly after camera upgrade

Post by DanKnoch » Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:25 pm

I highly recommend "https://www.facebook.com/groups/HubsanQC/".

Way more knowledge about these things than I could hope to have. thinking simple: have to tried different usb cables? may have a bad cable.

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