TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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Order #: 2857182-3871025802

As others have noted (viewtopic.php?f=57&t=191646), the TFT display on my Feather has a backlight but nothing is actually displayed. I popped into the Discord to ask a general question in the #help-with-circuitpython channel about the plug & play nature of the display and they recommended following the tutorials which I already did. I attempted them again and yet the behavior is the same.

I don't even get the ROM image that someone displayed in the channel.

Is there a path forward here?

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Re: TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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As a forum admin I cannot lookup your order. What is the controller / display you are using?

Can you post a photo of your setup including anything else connected and if you did any soldering please show those too.

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Re: TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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There's nothing connected to it except the usb-c.

I also haven't soldered anything to it. I ordered it June 1st and received it maybe a week or two later.

I can share a pic but I haven't done anything to it beside remove it from the packaging it arrived in.

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Re: TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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If there is nothing else connected or soldered please let us know the Ada part# you are using.

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Re: TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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Adafruit ESP32-S2 TFT Feather - 4MB Flash, 2MB PSRAM, STEMMA QT
PID: 5300

Thank you by the way!

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Re: TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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Are you connecting to it through Mu editor or other editor? What do you see in serial (REPL) after hitting reset on the board? Copy and paste any REPL response here please.

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Any REPL console output as @DJDevon3 requested would be helpful.

You can also try a factor reset as described here:

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-esp ... f2-3107942

Should the above process fail please let us know where.

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DJDevon3 wrote:Are you connecting to it through Mu editor or other editor? What do you see in serial (REPL) after hitting reset on the board? Copy and paste any REPL response here please.
Here's what I see,
Screen Shot 2022-07-04 at 8.56.24 PM.png
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The screen itself is backlit but don't see anything displayed on it.

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Re: TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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mikeysklar wrote:Any REPL console output as @DJDevon3 requested would be helpful.

You can also try a factor reset as described here:

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-esp ... f2-3107942

Should the above process fail please let us know where.
I posted an image of the REPL above.

And what do you mean by let you know where the process fails?

I did the Factory Reset Firmware UF2, reloaded the UF2 but the display is still blank.

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Re: TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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Let's have you try running some code on that will use the TFT. The REPL output is might not be going there based on different CircuitPython version defaults.

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Tim C for Adafruit Industries
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
"""
CircuitPython simple text display demo
"""
import board
import terminalio
from adafruit_display_text import bitmap_label

# Update this to change the text displayed.
text = "Hello, World!"
# Update this to change the size of the text displayed. Must be a whole number.
scale = 3

text_area = bitmap_label.Label(terminalio.FONT, text=text, scale=scale)
text_area.x = 10
text_area.y = 10
board.DISPLAY.show(text_area)

while True:
    pass
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-esp ... ay-3111114

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Re: TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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mikeysklar wrote:Let's have you try running some code on that will use the TFT. The REPL output is might not be going there based on different CircuitPython version defaults.

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Tim C for Adafruit Industries
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
"""
CircuitPython simple text display demo
"""
import board
import terminalio
from adafruit_display_text import bitmap_label

# Update this to change the text displayed.
text = "Hello, World!"
# Update this to change the size of the text displayed. Must be a whole number.
scale = 3

text_area = bitmap_label.Label(terminalio.FONT, text=text, scale=scale)
text_area.x = 10
text_area.y = 10
board.DISPLAY.show(text_area)

while True:
    pass
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-esp ... ay-3111114
I tried all of the test code in the manual. If you look at the same place where that code is located, I SHOULD see the REPL without much effort.

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-esp ... tft-basics

Others have also said that there should be a screen telling me to load a UF2. I am not even seeing that action on my screen.

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Re: TFT NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON ESP32-S

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ok you probably have a board with a bad TFT - email support@adafruit for a new feather!

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