Unable to escape Hard Fault

Hi, I am having a problem escaping hard fault mode on my photon. It has worked okay for some time but it consistently drops out of it’s wireless connection. Whenever it does this I have to reset it or it would blink green (Search for internet) forever (It was not a wifi problem as I have a P1 device working perfectly on the same network). Today i tried resetting it and it went into the hard fault mode(blinks Red SOS then 1 more red blink). I have tried updating the firmware and installing the blink binary via DFU mode but it just goes back into the hard fault mode. I have also searched and tried some other solutions I found here on the discussion board to no avail. Can I please get some help on how to solve this issue? Thank you in advance.

@milikuru
Welcome to the Particle Community!

Have you tried reflashing the system firmware over dfu?

https://github.com/spark/firmware/releases

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I have tried flashing the firmware and tinker with every method available but it just goes back into the hard fault mode.

@milikuru, if you have the latest CLI installed, put the Photon in DFU mode and try:

particle update
particle flash --usb tinker
1 Like

I am using CLI v 1.17.0. I just tried this method again but it still goes back into hard fault mode. I also just noticed my photon is always showing up online on the particle build IDE even when completely disconnected from power. Could this be part of the issue?