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Failed to upload initial testBuzzer.ino

When I tried to upload testBuzzer.ino to my Nyboard V1_0, I got the below error:

Arduino: 1.8.13 (Mac OS X), Board: "Arduino Uno"


Sketch uses 5362 bytes (16%) of program storage space. Maximum is 32256 bytes.
Global variables use 328 bytes (16%) of dynamic memory, leaving 1720 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2048 bytes.
/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -C/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -patmega328p -carduino -P/dev/cu.usbserial-1410 -b115200 -D -Uflash:w:/var/folders/n9/npd4_2sx7ms39wnj7_6xb2s00000gn/T/arduino_build_637982/testBuzzer.ino.hex:i 

avrdude: Version 6.3-20190619
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
         User configuration file is "/Users/wukaling/.avrduderc"
         User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

         Using Port                    : /dev/cu.usbserial-1410
         Using Programmer              : arduino
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 115200
         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 : Arduino
         Description     : Arduino
         Hardware Version: 3
         Firmware Version: 4.4
         Vtarget         : 0.3 V
         Varef           : 0.3 V
         Oscillator      : 28.800 kHz
         SCK period      : 3.3 us

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

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

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f (probably m328p)
avrdude: reading input file "/var/folders/n9/npd4_2sx7ms39wnj7_6xb2s00000gn/T/arduino_build_637982/testBuzzer.ino.hex"
avrdude: writing flash (5362 bytes):

Writing | ################################################## | 100% 0.93s

avrdude: 5362 bytes of flash written
avrdude: verifying flash memory against /var/folders/n9/npd4_2sx7ms39wnj7_6xb2s00000gn/T/arduino_build_637982/testBuzzer.ino.hex:
avrdude: load data flash data from input file /var/folders/n9/npd4_2sx7ms39wnj7_6xb2s00000gn/T/arduino_build_637982/testBuzzer.ino.hex:
avrdude: input file /var/folders/n9/npd4_2sx7ms39wnj7_6xb2s00000gn/T/arduino_build_637982/testBuzzer.ino.hex contains 5362 bytes
avrdude: reading on-chip flash data:

Reading | #######
avrdude: stk500_paged_load(): (a) protocol error, expect=0x10, resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_paged_load(): (a) protocol error, expect=0x10, resp=0x00

#avrdude: stk500_cmd(): programmer is out of sync
avr_read(): error reading address 0x0000
    read operation not supported for memory "flash"
avrdude: failed to read all of flash memory, rc=-2
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x66

avrdude done.  Thank you.

Any suggestions on how I could debug this? I have read some related forum threads, but none of the suggestion was helpful.


I can confirm I have the Port select as "/dev/cu.usbserial-xxxxxxxx", Board as Arduino Uno, Programmer as USBtinyISP. The code could compile/verify without issue. But the above error arises when I try to upload to Nyboard. I have tried a different USB port on laptop as well but that didn't help.


Any suggestion or help would be greatly appreciated.

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Rongzhong Li
Rongzhong Li
Apr 20, 2021

The upload has two stages, writing and validation, which reads the written program and compares it with the original one on the computer. The second stage could be omitted. I think the error happens in the second stage. It could be an out-of-sync problem when the connection takes too long time.

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