# Photon got blinking magenta slowly **URL:** \ **Category:** Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [August 4, 2015, 8:18am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-got-blinking-magenta-slowly/14100 "2015-08-04T08:18:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![nrobinson2000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/nrobinson2000/32/15624_2.png) [@nrobinson2000](https://community.particle.io/u/nrobinson2000)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 10:47am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-got-blinking-magenta-slowly/14100/5 "2015-08-04T10:47:23Z")
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](https://community.particle.io/t/breathing-magenta-two-new-photons/13368): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-got-blinking-magenta-slowly/14100)._