firmware update hanging

Official Hardware MKR Family MKR 1000 WiFi
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I successfully tested the firmware and the WiFiWebClient sketch, then started working to get the MKR1000 to talk to Azure. I used the Winc1500 tool to try and load the certificates. It always hung at "Updating Certificates". So, I tried the command line tool - following the directions (I'm still new) I included the firmware, now realizing I just needed to include the certs and not the firmware. However, it just hung there and continues to hang at "Flashing firmware from 'firmware/19.4.4/m2m_aio_3a0.bin'" (I have MR510PB, calling for the 3a0 firmware). If I cancel that and try to run the simple tests now, the WiFi shield doesn't detect - it's effectively bricked. I tried restarting the process - from a power cycle through running the updater. It's still stuck and doesn't look like it will change.

Any ideas/suggestions? I don't want to give up on it if I don't have to.

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Did you ever find a solution for this? I ran the WiFiWebClient example included with the WiFi101 library. The sketch checks the version of the firmware. If it is not 1.1.0, the sketch tells you to upgrade the firmware. So I set out to upgrade the firmware.

Like you I have an MR510PB, so I used the 3a0 firmware ...

./winc1500-uploader -firmware m2m_aio_3a0.bin -port /dev/cu.usbmodem1411
2016/04/29 11:39:59 Connecting to programmer
2016/04/29 11:40:02 Synch with programmer
2016/04/29 11:40:02 Reading max payload size
2016/04/29 11:40:02 Flashing firmware from 'm2m_aio_3a0.bin'

... Hang. Just sits there. I let it go for thirty minutes. Cancelled. Now the Arduino will run, but no WiFi operations will work. Run the command again, and let it sit longer. I still get connecting, syncing, reading, flashing, messages, so I assume there's still hope.

Pretty poor of Arduino to ship a product wherein the example sketches tell you to upgrade - which in turn effectively bricks the wireless. One sketch at $35 is crap!

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I hope I saw your post earlier, having exactly the same issue here.

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Just have the same problem here.
On macOS 10.11.6 => Try to flash the firm with the IDE 1.6.10 => error when flashing the firmware. WifiModule was bricked ):

Try to flash the firmware with cli on mac => blocked on "Flashing firmware from 'm2m_aio_3a0.bin'" line. :frowning:

I fixed the problem with a linux computer and flash the firmware on cli : GitHub - arduino/arduino-fwuploader: A Command Line Tool made to update the firmware and/or add SSL certificates for any Arduino board equipped with WINC or NINA Wi-Fi module.

The firmware is correctly flashed and the wifi module work again \o/

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Hi Everyone,

There are some issues with OS X and the MKR1000's USB stack.

There's a pull request open to fix them, it would be great if you could try the following instructions to see if it's resolves then:

When you are done with testing, please remove the installed board manager build from the board manager and remove the new JSON url from your preferences.

Thanks.