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merrywhether
 
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Magtag not booting

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I recently got 2 Magtags, and one worked perfectly and I've got it running my project, but the other won't boot ("MAGTAG" placeholder text never clears, no serial comms, etc). Initially I got into rom bootloader mode and copied the latest circuitpython (7.0 at the time) and the board restarted and the CIRCUITPY disk mounted. But then it would never actually boot and run the code.py files. I went through both esptool.py and the WebEspTool process (https://circuitpython.org/board/adafrui ... grayscale/) of erasing and refreshing the drive, and then recopying new CircuitPython on (7.1 this time) and still nothing from the board.

esptool.py output:

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% /usr/local/bin/esptool.py --port=/dev/cu.usbmodem01 --after=no_reset write_flash 0x0 tinyuf2-adafruit_magtag_29gray-0/combined.bin 
esptool.py v3.2
Serial port /dev/cu.usbmodem01
Connecting...
Detecting chip type... Unsupported detection protocol, switching and trying again...
Connecting...
Detecting chip type... ESP32-S2
Chip is ESP32-S2
Features: WiFi, No Embedded Flash, No Embedded PSRAM, ADC and temperature sensor calibration in BLK2 of efuse V1
Crystal is 40MHz
MAC: xxx
Uploading stub...
Running stub...
Stub running...
Configuring flash size...
Flash will be erased from 0x00000000 to 0x002f2fff...
Compressed 3090400 bytes to 110178...
Wrote 3090400 bytes (110178 compressed) at 0x00000000 in 23.0 seconds (effective 1073.3 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.

Leaving...
Staying in bootloader.
After reflashing and resetting, INFO_UF2.txt reads:

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TinyUF2 Bootloader 0.7.0 - tinyusb (0.12.0-203-ga4cfd1c6)
Model: Adafruit MagTag 2.9 Grayscale
Board-ID: ESP32S2-MagTag_29gray-revC
Date: Dec 28 2021
After a subsequent CircuitPython install, boot_out.txt (the rest of the contents are the default) currently reads:

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Adafruit CircuitPython 7.1.0 on 2021-12-28; Adafruit MagTag with ESP32S2
Board ID:adafruit_magtag_2.9_grayscale
The exact same setup works fine with the other Magtag (and the macropad I got in the same order). Double clicking reset also can't bring up bootloader mode (like it does for the other boards). Thanks!

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Re: Magtag not booting

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Bumping this since it might have gotten lost in the holidays

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Re: Magtag not booting

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Sorry for the non-response. Please send an email to [email protected] with your order number and a pointer to this thread, saying that a replacement has been authorized.

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Re: Magtag not booting

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Awesome, thanks. Done!

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