I managed to get a Particle Electron into a state which I cannot seem to recover from. As shown in the photo below, the D7 led is constantly dimly lit. I have followed the factory reset instructions are described here: https://community.particle.io/t/bricked-little-blue-d7-led-dimly-on-bottom-stm-c…

How did you get into this state? Let the battery drain till the Electron shut down?

Where you running the Electron off the battery when this happened?

Yes. But I want know how to fix my Electron (ie: reflash), not the root cause of how it got into this state.

I’m just trying to figure out what the deal is. I know the 0.7.0-rc1 firmware is supposed to prevent this from happening but I doubt you were running that unless you have the Particle CLI software installed. Do you? If you do then the next step is to try to flash new firmware to the Electron via …

I was running 0.7.0-rc2. Yes I have the Particle CLI installed. I cannot get into DFU mode nor Factory Reset. Unit is completely unresponsive.

[image] drp: I was running 0.7.0-rc2. I would go to the Bug Forum Post and let @Bdub know the latest firmware did not help in your situation.

Electron: fixing the blue LED of death

Troubleshooting

drp July 27, 2017, 11:22pm 3

Not 100% sure but I’m assuming from the brown-out bug.

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Electron: fixing the blue LED of death

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