Arduino UNO avrdude: Version 6.3-20190619 message

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I am using an Arduino UNO R3 to verify+upload an empty sketch. It should just upload the sketch, that essentially does nothing. However, the message below is what I get. Any hints why this happens?? Thanks in advance, AA

avrdude: Version 6.3-20190619
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

     System wide configuration file is "C:\Users\aallievi\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/etc/avrdude.conf"

     Using Port                    : COM4
     Using Programmer              : arduino
     Overriding Baud Rate          : 115200
     AVR Part                      : ATmega328P
     Chip Erase delay              : 9000 us
     PAGEL                         : PD7
     BS2                           : PC2
     RESET disposition             : dedicated
     RETRY pulse                   : SCK
     serial program mode           : yes
     parallel program mode         : yes
     Timeout                       : 200
     StabDelay                     : 100
     CmdexeDelay                   : 25
     SyncLoops                     : 32
     ByteDelay                     : 0
     PollIndex                     : 3
     PollValue                     : 0x53
     Memory Detail                 :

                              Block Poll               Page                       Polled
       Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW  MaxW   ReadBack
       ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
       eeprom        65    20     4    0 no       1024    4      0  3600  3600 0xff 0xff
       flash         65     6   128    0 yes     32768  128    256  4500  4500 0xff 0xff
       lfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       hfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       efuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
       calibration    0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
       signature      0     0     0    0 no          3    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00

     Programmer Type : Arduino
     Description     : Arduino
     Hardware Version: 3
     Firmware Version: 4.4
     Vtarget         : 0.3 V
     Varef           : 0.3 V
     Oscillator      : 28.800 kHz
     SCK period      : 3.3 us

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.00s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f (probably m328p)
avrdude: reading input file "C:\Users\aallievi\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino\sketches\0D34602AB9264F968A5F9382D7867351/sketch_dec4c.ino.hex"
avrdude: writing flash (444 bytes):

Writing | ################################################## | 100% 0.08s

avrdude: 444 bytes of flash written

avrdude done. Thank you.

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You have enabled "verbose output during compilation" under file → preferences.

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I guess you uploaded this:

void setup() {
  // put your setup code here, to run once:

}

void loop() {
  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:

}

The program actually uploaded consists of the standard initialization of the timers and the ADC to prepare for millis(), micros(), analogWrite() and analogRead(), followed by your function setup(), which is empty, and will enter an infinite loop executing your function loop(), also empty.

The last line: avrdude done. Thank you. means the sketch is uploaded normally and your board is now executing your program, that does nothing.

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Only if it's the last line :slight_smile: This is an attempt to upload a sketch to a Mega while the selected board is a Nano (IDE 2.x)

avrdude: Version 6.3-20190619
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "C:\Users\Wim\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/etc/avrdude.conf"

         Using Port                    : COM3
         Using Programmer              : arduino
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 57600
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xff
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xe2
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xf9
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xfe
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xf8
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xfe
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xec
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): can't communicate with device: resp=0xeb

avrdude done.  Thank you.

Failed uploading: uploading error: exit status 1
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I'm not surprised it failed. The MEGA has a different processor.

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This was purely done to demonstrated that avrdude done. Thank you. is not the whole story :wink:

It's not really the processor, it's the bootloader. This demonstrates uploading to an Uno with the Nano as the board (using old bootloader); same processor :smiley:

avrdude: Version 6.3-20190619
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "C:\Users\Wim\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/etc/avrdude.conf"

         Using Port                    : COM7
         Using Programmer              : arduino
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 57600
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x37
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x37
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x37
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x37
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x37
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x37
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x37
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 8 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x37
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x37
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x37

avrdude done.  Thank you.

Failed uploading: uploading error: exit status 1
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It does demonstrate the difference between

and

avrdude: 444 bytes of flash written

avrdude done. Thank you.
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I also got above when I tried to upload to COM3 (normal default) instead of COM4.
Thank you all for your input, very helpful as usual. AA

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