Many problems uploading

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I have been having many problems uploading to arduinos. I am sure all the obvious thinks, like wrong com port are OK. I get a successful load about 1 try in 10.

I have tried this on 2 different PCs and several arduinos, both genuine unos and clones. I am an experienced PC user.

I was about ready to give up but I decided to try getting the pocket AVR programmer. This also fails on my systems with verification errors.

I attempted to make the upload using the command line instead of the IDE and this works fine. I have now uploaded several unos, with several sketches on 3 PCs and all work with the command line, but fail with the IDE.

It is a pain to use the command line, and I cannot believe the rest of the world has this much trouble loading arduinos.

Any suggestions?

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Doesn’t the IDE give error messages when it fails? If not try verbose mode.

The IDE version is probably important to know.

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Yes, The IDE shows the error ‘verification error’ In command mode it shows the writing, followed by reading then OK.

I am musing the IDE V1.6.0.

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Copy and paste the entire error from the IDE…

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avrdude: Version 6.0.1, compiled on Apr 3 2014 at 23:12:16

Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/

Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

System wide configuration file is “C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf”

Using Port : usb

Using Programmer : usbtiny

avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found USBtinyISP, bus:device: bus-0:\.\libusb0-0001–0x1781-0x0c9f

AVR Part : ATmega328P

Chip Erase delay : 9000 us

PAGEL : PD7

BS2 : PC2

RESET disposition : dedicated

RETRY pulse : SCK

serial program mode : yes

parallel program mode : yes

Timeout : 200

StabDelay : 100

CmdexeDelay : 25

SyncLoops : 32

ByteDelay : 0

PollIndex : 3

PollValue : 0x53

Memory Detail :

Block Poll Page Polled

Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack

eeprom 65 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 3600 3600 0xff 0xff

flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0xff 0xff

lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00

hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00

efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00

lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00

calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00

signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00

Programmer Type : USBtiny

Description : USBtiny simple USB programmer, http://www.ladyada.net/make/usbtinyisp/

avrdude: programmer operation not supported

avrdude: Using SCK period of 10 usec

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% -0.00s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f

avrdude: NOTE: “flash” memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed

To disable this feature, specify the -D option.

avrdude: erasing chip

avrdude: Using SCK period of 10 usec

avrdude: reading input file “C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Local\Temp\build4142008991102421513.tmp/sketch_aug22a.cpp.hex”

avrdude: writing flash (450 bytes):

Writing | ################################################## | 100% 0.89s

avrdude: 450 bytes of flash written

avrdude: verifying flash memory against C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Local\Temp\build4142008991102421513.tmp/sketch_aug22a.cpp.hex:

avrdude: load data flash data from input file C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Local\Temp\build4142008991102421513.tmp/sketch_aug22a.cpp.hex:

avrdude: input file C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Local\Temp\build4142008991102421513.tmp/sketch_aug22a.cpp.hex contains 450 bytes

avrdude: reading on-chip flash data:

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.78s

avrdude: verifying …

avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000

0xff != 0x0c

avrdude: verification error; content mismatch

avrdude done. Thank you.

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Looks like you need to burn the correct bootloader. Plug in bad Arduinos, select the correct board, correct COM port, click Burn Bootloader.