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OK,
I know I am resurrecting a necro'd thread, but I found this when I was looking for my poblems, so I guess this is a good place to post some help… I got a brand spanking new Inspire 1 (Revision D btw). When I fired it up for the first time, it said “firmware upgrade needed”. I knew that from my Phantom, so I went right ahead.
And it seems like that’s what made me run into problems. Here is what happened.
- I am working on a Mac, so I put in the MicroSD in a Multireader (not some cheap-o crap, but a Belkin "quality" one). I got connection probs from time to time, no idea why. The card ejected from the Mac and was not there when trying to copy stuff - I took the 16GB card that came with the Inspire, formatted it in the Mac to exFat and copied the Firmware onto that. - I then inserted the card into the camera gimbal in the Inspire.
The Inspire would start the firmware upgrade, and then stop, changing from the D-D-D-D and DD-D-D sounds to a DDDDDDDDDD with a flashing yellow tail. Looking at the SD, the result file said “Failed” and “Try to reboot aircraft”. I tried this like 10 times. Always the same.
Now here is what I did:
- I charged the battery to 100%. It was full in the first place, but for some reason it seems that is important. - I took an 8GB microSD I had lying around - I formatted that microSD with FAT32 using a dead simple USB thumb adapter in a Windows 8.1 laptop - I downloaded the firmware via Firefox on that same laptop - I extracted the FW on that same laptop - I copied the FW to the microSD in the thumb on that same laptop - I stuck the card into the Inspire
After that, everything went as expected and the FW upgraded successfully. As a conclusion, these were the possible reasons for my failure:
Formatting the card on a Mac for some reason is not OK Writing the file to the card on a Mac for some reason is not OK (I tried formatting the card in the copter, too) Downloading the file on a Mac for some reason is not OK Extracting the file on a Mac for some reason is not OK You need a battery that is - either 100% charged - has more than 0 charge cycles
I thought it would matter to which version you upgrade from which, but the Inspire had 1.2 something, and I went right to 1.4.0.10 in my successful try, so that does not matter at all. This solution worked for me (!!), and it is actually a compilation of several I read (use Windows, charge the battery)… So thanks to those who suggested that.
I really hope this is a help to some of you….
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