I am using the foca board to upload the sketch onto the Gboard and i am getting the following error:
avrdude.exe: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
I have tried everything installing, uninstalling the drivers; changing the serial port number, downgrading the ftdi driver version to 2.08.24.
Also tried uploading using every board setting in the tools.
Hi
Don't know if this helps, but it worked for me.
I bought a couple of Arduino Pro Mini boards from different vendors on ebay together with a USB FTDI board. I have already used a Uno and Nano board without problems. (I just started using Arduino a couple of months ago, so my software is up to date and I'm using Windows 7).
However, when I tried uploading to the Pro Mini boards I continually got the error message:
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
I trawled the web and saw that lots of people had this error as well. Some seemed to have solved the problem, others were not so successful.
Some of the solutions seemed complicated e.g. reloading the bootloader, downloading new drivers etc. Slowly I began to piece things together.
The first thing I did was to connect RXC to TXC on the USB FTDI board and type a message in the top line of the Arduino IDE serial monitor.
This was echoed back to the screen and the Data LED on the FTDI board flashed briefly. This seemed to confirm that the FTDI board at least was working.
Next I looked at RST pin on the FTDI board. Some suggested connecting this to the DTS or RST on the Pro Mini. I tried several combinations of these, together with pressing the reset button on the Pro Mini and still the same problem.
I then came to the conclusion that, if the FTDI board was working then it was unlikely that both Pro Mini boards were faulty. But I just couldn't figure out what was going on.
I was about to give up when, as a last attempt, I removed the RTS connection and tried again and it worked.
So to sum up how it worked for me:
Connect:
USB FTDI Pro Mini
5 V VCC
TXC TXO
RXC RXO
GND GND
I then compiled the code, and uploaded. After choosing upload I waited until the IDE started to upload and pressed the reset switch manually.
Tried it several times and it worked on both Pro Mini boards.
However, be careful with the timing of pressing the reset switch. When uploading the sketch is chosen the IDE first states compiling (again?) and then uploading. Even though the sketch has been previously compiled. So wait until it states uploading before pressing the reset button, otherwise the above error is reported.
Hope this is of help.
The GBoard uses ATmega328, go to Tools > Board > Arduino Duemilanove w/ ATmega328
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