Hi guys.
I know this is a bit of an old post now but i thought i'd let you know about my Bricked 501S. Similar to the original poster on here, i'd left my Hubsan for a while & it was having none of it when i tried to fire it up.
So i reflashed the firmware, hoping that would cure my problems. If anything, it made them worse. I could'nt even get my bird to light up, let alone bind. I tried all 3 controllers that i have (bought a job lot off ebay a couple of years back) but nothing. So i decided to flash the H501S controller with the upto date FC, RX & TX. Anyway, what kept puzzling me was, when i'd got the controller connected to my pc, put it in upgrade mode & then connected my birds battery, the upgrade prog said it was connected & would i like to upgrade, but every time i clicked upgrade, the status bar would only go about 1/3 of the way & then it would give me a 'time out' error.
I tried & tried & tried, but still no joy. I wondered if my FC had gone, so took one out of one of my other birds & tried again. Exactly the same issue. This was driving me bonkers.
By chance, i'd forgot to take the micro USB lead out of the bird at one attempt & noticed my pc would give a 'USB disconnect' sound. So i knew the board was working. So i went through the process of connecting my controller to my pc, put it in upgrade mode, loaded the firmware i wanted to use & then connected my birds battery. This is when the EUREKA MOMENT happened. My bird slipped out of my hand & ended up nose down on my controllers lcd. Low & behold, the progress bar on the upgrade tool went to 2/3's but then timed out again.
One more attempt but this time i held my bird nose down on the lcd & BINGO. the upgrade loaded, the progress bar went all the way & then told me the upgrade was a success.
So i then disconnected everything & put the controller in to bind mode, connect ed the battery to my bird & BINGO AGAIN. The bind process worked. The LED's on my bird flashed like they'd never flashed before & now she is back to full working order
The whole point to my post is just to say, don't give up if you feel you may have bricked yours. It seems you have to hold your bird right up against your controller to get it to connect when loading the firmware.
Once this wind has died down here, i'm taking my bird out again
Gazza