Photon got blinking magenta slowly

[bathtimefish]

Hi, my photon got blinking magenta slowly after firmware update.

I tryed to restart device, and Photon's LED workes:
soid white -> blink green -> blink cyan first -> blink magenta slowly

That color is not listed in the troubleshooting guide

Spark Core Troubleshooting Guide (Spark Team)

#Troubleshooting Guide Hello Sparksters! We’re really happy that many of you have received your Cores, and happy to help with any issues you might encounter. Please don’t hesitate to contact us on Facebook, Twitter, IRC, or through our Community Site. In the meantime, here’s a brief guide that should help resolve any of the most common issues that you’re having getting your Core online. First, please make sure you’re familiar with the [normal behavior of the LED] (https://community.spark.io…

This photon is offline in device list when running "particle list" command.

What does it mean?

[kennethlimcp]

Blinking magenta means OTA firmware downloading in progress. Is it an entirely new Photon?

[bathtimefish]

Thanks @kennethlimcp

I got blinking magenta “very slowly” like blink cyan slowly when successfully connected particle server.

blinking is continuing about one hour. I guess it something error happens in device.

This photon is shipped last month.

[kennethlimcp]

It is breathing magenta?..like fade in and out?

[nrobinson2000]

If it is breathing magenta, it means that it does not have any user firmware on it. Flash some code to it.

Breathing Magenta two new photons

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, which ultimately ends in a slow breathing magenta for both of the devices. If I do a factory reset, the same thing happens again. I’ve not downloaded anything, just trying to get them to be “onlin…

[bathtimefish]

It is breathing magenta?....like fade in and out?

yes, this is it.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNdWSPM5h3E4c7wRCvOvN1X-yYrhSV58o32PfeDBrcBk0zL4AJa6PH_kUJDKxkJpQ/photo/AF1QipPZGzq_3_CmJfsRmzNdfIkFLzS4RuOZb_N6ktj_?key=enBNT1BQWkdkblp0M01VUkJpWEc1Z29seEFiV2l3

[bathtimefish]

Thank you @nrobinson2000, I try to do that!

[ransinha]

Hi,
I’m facing the same problem with a brand new device. I’ve flushed the very basic Blink an LED program from the Example apps. The following occurs:

The D7 pin Blue Light blinks for a second->White light blinked once ->rapid green light blinking ->cyan light blinking comparatively slower -> breathing majenta(again!!)

How do I bring it back from the safe mode?

[Moors7]

If it’s in Safe Mode, you should be able to flash new code to it. Photons should automatically update their system firmware to match the user one you’ve selected, whereas an Electron won’t auto-update, leaving you in Safe mode if user firmware > System firmware.
With a Photon, flash new code.
With an Electron, flash code with a version <= system version, or update the system firmware. Using the CLI, in DFU mode, that should be ‘particle update’, assuming you’re on the latest CLI version.

[ransinha]

Hi Thank you for the reply. Even after flashing new code it was not exiting from the safe mode.

Photon breathing magenta[SOLVED]

Hi All, I need some help with local compile I had it working a few days back but now it does not work at all for me. To try and debug I have created a very short test code. #include "application.h" void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); delay(20000); } void loop() { Serial.println("Top of Loop"); delay(1000); Serial.println("Bottom of Loop"); delay(1000); } I can compile and flash this with the Particle-DEV ide no problem When I compile locally I get C:\spark\fi…

This solution worked.

Thank you so much once again.

[Moors7]

@Moors7

Using the CLI, in DFU mode, that should be 'particle update', assuming you're on the latest CLI version.

Glad to hear the issue is resolved.
For completeness sake, I'll assume you've updated the system firmware using DFU-util?

If so, then this should've given you the same.

@Moors7

Using the CLI, in DFU mode, that should be 'particle update', assuming you're on the latest CLI version.

[ransinha]

Yes yes. We’ve done that. CLI version : 1.27.0

Thank You. Really appreciate this.