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Hi. I really want to use Mobiflight, but when i turn it it scans for Arduino. Than when it discovers it i press ok. And the software want to upload the firmware to the board. But than comes the message that avrude.exe - Application error. Than i close is and it comes Hint - There was a problem uploading the firmware! Enable Debug Logging for more details. What should i do???

Hi.

This Harwareproblem need a reply from Sebastian himself. I´m not advanced in the Firmware Upload technics !

Please geve us some informations.

What Arduino do you use.....
Normaly MEGA is 100% Compatible..... UNO is not working perfect at the moment.... Other Arduinos are not supported at the moment.
Even its not official needed to use Administrator Mode... I will recomend to do this and test again. Maby there is a writing permision somewhere.
At last... Please get shure you fill correct the field "Path of Arduino IDE" in the Settings Tab

So Please test this.... If Problem still exist please tell us if possible WHAT board and WHAT Manifacture you exactly like to use !

Hi. I think that the problem might be because i have Arduino Uno clone with 340 chip. Soon i will buy Arduino Mega and i will test it. Thank you for your support. Bit i don't know why avrdude.exe says: The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application. Is it from the arduino board or from my pc?

Hi paulteam,

can it be that you use pin 0 and/or 1 on your arduino?
Pin 0 (RX) and Pin 1 (TX) are mandatory needed for the upload to the arduino. For the upload the serial port is used.
Next problem is that the firmware for the UNO is even in Beta-stadium. You should try a MEGA 2560.

Try first the arduino IDE and test it with an upload to the arduino. Use a simple sketch out of the example folder. If this works fine the propability is high that it will work fine with MobiFlight.

As already mentioned the UNO support is not as stable as the Mega.
You can try to manually upload the correct hex file using the XLoader Tool - I have seen people successfully doing that in the past.

No, i don't use pin 1 and 0. I try to upload the last hex file with xloader, but the same result. When the Mobiflight detects the arduino and i start the firmware upload via mobiflight the leds on the board flash which means that it uploads simething, and then comes the annoying message avrude.exe - Application Error. Thank you for your support!!!!

If you upload the hex file via xloader you don't need to upload the firmware again through MobiFlight.