Cannot Maintain USB Connection For Firmware/Commander
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:13 pm
Hello. On my 2B, I'm finding that, in order to complete firmware updates or maintain a connection to Commander, I have to hold the 2B side of the USB cable firmly into my 2B in order to maintain the connection, or else Commander will report that it can no longer find the 2B, or a firmware update may fail and I'll have to retry. I've had my 2B for about a year now, and Commander gave me trouble from day 1 and assumed it was a driver issue, but ended up finding out the real issue when I wanted to update to the new beta: the connection between the 2B and my computer. I had to tightly hold the cable into my 2B for both the update and downgrade back to 2.106, and it's making me afraid to try again for fear of it not working the next time and I end up soft-bricking my 2B since it won't have a firmware installed. It's bad enough that, I had my thumb slip slightly and and my firmware update failed, causing some momentary panic before I found out the bootloader was still intact and I could try again. My thumb was quite sore after the 10 minutes or so it took to update the next time. Lol.
For more background, I'm not 100% convinced it's my 2B since it will pick up audio sources for stereo mode, so I believe the jack is fully functional, but then again audio has always felt kind of inconsistent/jumpy so I don't know. I've never found a file that's anywhere near as smooth as normal continuous/thrust modes and I'm not sure if that's just the nature of the audio processing or if something about the audio jack is messed up.
Is this a common issue? Would y'all happen to know anything that may cause this or what I might be able to do about it so I can feel safer installing new firmware?
Thanks
For more background, I'm not 100% convinced it's my 2B since it will pick up audio sources for stereo mode, so I believe the jack is fully functional, but then again audio has always felt kind of inconsistent/jumpy so I don't know. I've never found a file that's anywhere near as smooth as normal continuous/thrust modes and I'm not sure if that's just the nature of the audio processing or if something about the audio jack is messed up.
Is this a common issue? Would y'all happen to know anything that may cause this or what I might be able to do about it so I can feel safer installing new firmware?
Thanks