# \[SOLVED\]Help! Updates not actually updating **URL:** \ **Category:** Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [November 25, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/solved-help-updates-not-actually-updating/17779 "2015-11-25T17:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tjp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/tjp/32/5613_2.png) [@tjp](https://community.particle.io/u/tjp)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/solved-help-updates-not-actually-updating/17779/1 "2015-11-25T17:15:30Z")
Hey, I have been away from my project and Particle/Photon for a while and I was trying to update my project to the new system firmware, which I thought was just a matter of recompiling and uploading my firmware. However, it doesn’t change anything that I can tell. It uploads something to my Photon, just not the latest code :-/ Any ideas? Am I wrong in my assumption? How can I fix this? ---
**Author:** ![ScruffR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/scruffr/32/6952_2.png) [@ScruffR](https://community.particle.io/u/ScruffR)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/solved-help-updates-not-actually-updating/17779/2 "2015-11-25T17:45:21Z")
What IDE are you using? If you use Particle Build, check your target firmware setting in the Devices Drawer. If you are not, try flashing a dummy sketch with the latest firmware targeted and let the device flash and reboot at least three times. Or if you got CLI installed, perform an explicit update with `particle update` (after you’ve updated CLI to the latest version ;-)) ---
**Author:** ![tjp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/tjp/32/5613_2.png) [@tjp](https://community.particle.io/u/tjp)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/solved-help-updates-not-actually-updating/17779/3 "2015-11-25T18:54:32Z")
I’m using Particle Dev ---
**Author:** ![ScruffR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/scruffr/32/6952_2.png) [@ScruffR](https://community.particle.io/u/ScruffR)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/solved-help-updates-not-actually-updating/17779/4 "2015-11-25T19:02:19Z")
Particle Dev does **_not_** trigger an auto-update. The easiest way then whould be to flash a dummy sketch (like “Blink a LED”) from Web IDE (Particle Build) to trigger update. ---
**Author:** ![tjp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/tjp/32/5613_2.png) [@tjp](https://community.particle.io/u/tjp)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/solved-help-updates-not-actually-updating/17779/5 "2015-11-25T19:04:01Z")
I flashed it with “Blink a LED” but now when I upload from Dev it just reflashes it with “Blink a LED” ---
**Author:** ![tjp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/tjp/32/5613_2.png) [@tjp](https://community.particle.io/u/tjp)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/solved-help-updates-not-actually-updating/17779/6 "2015-11-25T19:05:39Z")
Looks like I had an old version (0.0.24) of Dev that wouldn’t updated to the current version so I’ve reinstalled Dev ---
**Author:** ![tjp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/tjp/32/5613_2.png) [@tjp](https://community.particle.io/u/tjp)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/solved-help-updates-not-actually-updating/17779/7 "2015-11-25T19:09:21Z")
That fixed it!