# Cannot Flash anything to Particle Photon

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/cannot-flash-anything-to-particle-photon/33337>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/cannot-flash-anything-to-particle-photon/33337 "2017-05-30T22:56:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![bleepr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@bleepr](https://community.particle.io/u/bleepr)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/cannot-flash-anything-to-particle-photon/33337/5 "2017-05-31T16:02:10Z")

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It had been on there before the problem fixed itself.

However, after a failed `particle update` and 5 more ‘particle setup’, the photon started behaving.

Strange…

Thanks for help

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