I have two new photons just out of the boxes. both do the same thing. I get them connected to my wifi and they breathe cyan very briefly (for about 20 seconds I can see them as online on my android phone. Then they start doing something flashing white, flashing green, reboot, flash, yadda, yadda…

Breathing magenta means if it running in Safe mode where the Photon connects to the :cloud: but does not run the user firmware. Did you managed to claim it? If you did, go to http://build.particle.io and flash an empty app. The Photon should now update it’s system firmware and everything so work we…

Please see this note about performing a factory reset: [image] AVOID factory reset - What to do with unexpected LED behavior on a Photon Hey everyone! TL;DR - If in doubt use Safe Mode rather than a factory reset to avoid potentially bricking your device. Just wanted…

[image] kennethlimcp: flash an empty app I received my Photon last night, and eventually ended up in a breathing magenta state. I believe I did a factory reset among other reboot procedures to get it working, and the best I could do was the breathing magenta and the mobile app listing it a…

Breathing magenta is a good sign. It means Hey, i’m connected to the :cloud: but no application code running.

I had three photons breathing magenta. To recover I Put the Photon into blinking Yellow mode. From the command line: particle update From the web IDE flashed Blink LED Ta-da, working.

Breathing Magenta two new photons

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mdma July 17, 2015, 3:38am 3

Please see this note about performing a factory reset:

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Breathing Magenta two new photons

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