Sparkfun Fio V3 - Broken USB jack - upload alternative?

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Hello,

I have many SparkFun Fio v3 (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11520) and two of them have lost their USB jack (this part of the board is definitively too weak…).

I tried to use a USB FTDI converter to connect the board to my computer but the Arduino IDE can’t work out with that…

When I press the upload button I can see soon after that the TX and RX leds are blinking many times (maybe 10 times), and then they stay on and the IDE waits.

After one minute it eventually says :

Found programmer: Id = “Bën”; type =

Software Version = . ; Hardware Version = .

avrdude: error: buffered memory access not supported. Maybe it isn’t

a butterfly/AVR109 but a AVR910 device?

I suppose the SparkFun Fio v3 is not designed for FTDI connexions, does it ?

What are alternative ways to upload code on the board ?

Thank you

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Hi,

i had the same issue a couple of hours ago :?

I was thinking about soldering a new micro usb connector with cables, but trying to find out which pins represent which cable.