Bricked Solo and Fix.

rrmccabe · Jul 2, 2015

Have the Solo boxed up ready to back after a couple days of $%^&* frustrating communications with 3DR.

Have been talking to Kevin at the 3DR Solo hacks page and he made me a couple image files. One for Solo itself and one for controller. The Solo and controller both have a 8 gig SD card inside them with about 7 1/2 megs of data on each of them.

So I opened up the Solo, pulled the SD card out and flashed the image to a new card and stuck it in the Solo. I did not do the one in the controller so when I powered it up I had to do the pair process again. Got a message to press A & B as new Solo was found, I did, it paired and did the update.

Crazy !

Miken · Jul 2, 2015

Post the image files . Sharing is caring.

rrmccabe · Jul 2, 2015

I will see if its OK with Kevin to post.

So update completed and not problems with the process. But back to -1% power thing (original problem) and getting the magnetic interference issue warning. So might be a problem with hardware...

Greg Parker · Jul 3, 2015

rrmccabe · Jul 3, 2015

Still has the original issue. Its just not bricked anymore and will respond to updates, etc.

1013D · Jul 3, 2015

Where is the solo hacks/mods page? Google is not working for me

rrmccabe · Jul 3, 2015

Its a facebook page. Its for those that are always pushing the envelope.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/363840837156620/

sixshooterstang · Jul 3, 2015

Interesting.... I wonder if they got a bad batch of SD cards.

OR they got put in the locked condition by accident hehe

rrmccabe · Jul 3, 2015

I think the card is fine. I think something flipped out when I did the reset on the Solo. The controller reset just fine. However the bird did not.

Still does not explain my -1% battery charge that showed up after the update which persisted after the new image.

Its just good to know you can pull the card and re image the SD card with the linux system and go again.

Be nice if the SD card was more accessible though. To get at it on Solo you need to pull battery tray, remove one motor pod to get wires loose enough to tip the main board up and get at SD slot on bottom.

Dunginhawk · Jul 3, 2015

i can see why they dont want people in there mucking with it... they would have CS issues up the wazoo if every yahoo was flashing it with a new unlocked, or hacked firmware to get some crazy new feature.
make it hard for people like me to be stupid

rrmccabe · Jul 3, 2015

Dunginhawk said:
i can see why they dont want people in there mucking with it... they would have CS issues up the wazoo if every yahoo was flashing it with a new unlocked, or hacked firmware to get some crazy new feature.
make it hard for people like me to be stupid

Oh no doubt. Its supposed to be a consumer drone anyway.

However in the event of locking the linux system up we know that both the Solo and Controller can be imaged back to stock !

dm14 · Oct 10, 2015

Hey @rrmccabe, any chance you still have the image file? I made a dd image of mine way back when, but can't find it now, and my solo appears bricked. Pretty sure it's the file system on the SD card (appears corrupted), would like to reflash. Thanks!