Just bought arduino starter kit after some time can't upload sketches

system · March 10, 2014, 12:45pm

Just started playing with Arduino and successfully built a few examples. Then started modifying them by printing variables using Serial.println and blinking leds. Then suddenly run into this:

avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000
0x0c != 0xff
avrdude: verification error; content mismatch

Tried both reset and powering off, but can't upload sketches anymore. After powering on the leds are blinking for some time.

So currently wondering whether I burned it somehow, corrupted bootloader... else? Could it be so, that I made it by using Serial.begin(9600)?

system · March 10, 2014, 1:17pm

Also forgot to add, this is Arduino Uno from Starter Kit.

That's what I see, when trying to upload "blink" example:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -CC:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -v -v -v -patmega328p -carduino -P\.\COM19 -b115200 -D -Uflash:w:C:\Users\slisovsk\AppData\Local\Temp\build3923038258126249066.tmp\Blink.cpp.hex:i

System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

Using Port : \.\COM19
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 115200
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
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
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Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack

flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0xff 0xff
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Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack

lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack

hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack

efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack

lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack

calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
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Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack

signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00

Programmer Type : Arduino
Description : Arduino
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [80] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [03]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [81] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [04]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [82] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [04]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [98] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [03]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
Hardware Version: 3
Firmware Version: 4.4
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [84] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [03]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [85] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [03]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [86] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [03]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [87] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [03]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [89] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [03]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
Vtarget : 0.3 V
Varef : 0.3 V
Oscillator : 28.800 kHz
SCK period : 3.3 us

...removed

| 100% 0.14s

avrdude: verifying ...
avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000
0x0c != 0xff
avrdude: verification error; content mismatch
avrdude: Send: Q [51] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]

avrdude done. Thank you.

CrossRoads · March 10, 2014, 4:33pm

Is that an Uno Rev 3, or an earlier version?

system · March 11, 2014, 11:00am

Yes, this is 3rd revision Arduino Uno.

As I didn't do anything major, I suspect still a defect chip, but any advices or opinions quite welcome.
Pretty annoyed that broke first day I started using it.

The only unusual things I did, were that I added println and Serial.begin(9600) to setup routine and
also called tone function with 13 led(built-in led) as a parameter. But it was working fine for two hours and then
at some point I just start getting this verification errors.

system · March 16, 2014, 6:20pm

hello,

I am encountering almost the same prob, its been quite a while i have used my UNO R3 now since i last updated a fully working program code.

But now, when im trying to upload the example blink sketch i getting these errors:

Binary sketch size: 1,084 bytes (of a 32,256 byte maximum)
avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000
         0x0c != 0x62
avrdude: verification error; content mismatch

i wish to take up new projects from UNO again, im missing code writings . . .

Any help to be able to troubleshoot is welcomed . . .

system · March 17, 2014, 4:47pm

Hi,

I am experiencing a similar issue. When trying to upload a sketch, this error occurs:

avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000

0x0c != 0x62*
avrdude: verification error; content mismatch

I tried rebooting the PC, tried to upload the sketch from another PC (both windows and linux), simple example sketches like 'blink', unplug the USB-cable, ... But I always run into this error. It worked fine earlier this day. I'm using Arduino Uno R3.

Does anyone know a reason why this occurs? Or even better, a solution?

system · May 24, 2014, 5:17pm

Exactly the same problem, anybody has a solution ? Seems to be a common problem with this starter kit.

system · May 25, 2014, 11:51pm

Out of curiosity:

For those of you who have this problem, did this problem start after something "funny" happened with the serial monitor?

I'm having what seems like a similar issue, but I didn't get this kit.

system · May 5, 2021, 3:59pm