Flashing Electron with Broken Micro USB Port

[nrobinson2000]

@tturne28

Can you flash the board again with the Rx and Tx pins using a serial to UART converter?

No, but I think you could use JTAG.

I'm not familiar with JTAG but this thread may help.

Electron stopped working?

My particle Electron board was sealed up inside the box that came with the solar kit and it WAS working. Today I decided to try to write some code for it and I was not able to upload the code. I could see inside the box that the RGB led was not lit up, but the blue D7 led was on solid. I took it out of the box and attempted to flash it over USB. When I plug it in with the USB cable, the red led starts to blink rapidly. I am not able to get it into DFU mode or do anything at all really. Here is …

Also, @ScruffR @kennethlimcp or @peekay123 might be able to help.