tcell Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 HELP! I searched around here and there are a few reports of this type of behavior, but I couldn't find a real answer. It started when I tried to upgrade to the 1.04 USB firmware and 2.62 flash memory. The firmware upgrade went fine. The flash upgrade failed to complete many times. I thought I was safe reinstalling v1.3, but then the POD has since been turning on, then restarting repeatedly with the Line 6 logo coming back on. I've tried powering up in safe mode - no help. Crap. Please help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcell Posted April 11, 2015 Author Share Posted April 11, 2015 OK, the good news is that after repeated safe mode rebooting (holding down right arrow key while powering up), I finally was able to reflash the memory back to v1.30. It seems to me the problem must be with USB transfer in general between Line 6 Monkey and the POD. Could it be the v1.04 USB firmware upgrade, or the new v1.70 Line 6 Monkey? I need to have some idea, or I won't be trying the flash upgrade again and that would mean no new model packs or global EQ for me. Any thoughts from Line 6 people would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgos02 Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 You should get the latest flash memory firmware as Line 6 suggests, but you have to do the "Global Reset" after each flash memory update and then pedal calibration. Hope that helps :) http://line6.com/support/page/kb/_/pod/pod-hd/after-pod-hd500x500-flashre-flashupdate-man-r160 http://line6.com/support/page/kb/_/pod/pod-hd500-hd500x/pod-hd500xhd500-pedal-calibration-r161 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triryche Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 You can also download the fw file and have Monkey flash from file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_Watt Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I have found that downloading the FW first works much better on my laptop and wireless internet connection. I got timeouts a couple times when I did not do this. I now always first download all of the SW and FW updates before doing them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcell Posted April 18, 2015 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 Well, I think I'm finally at v2.62 for good. Long story. I thank everyone who posted to this other post by Indianrock2020: http://line6.com/support/topic/13051-hd500x-firmware-updated-but-flash-wont-update-to-261/?do=findComment&comment=94023 Very helpful. I think Norton Internet Security might have been one culprit - once I shut that down I was able to update my POD HD bean from a downloaded file. when I hadn't been able to before. Yay! But when I went to do the HD500x and it still failed! I switched to another computer with Windows XP, updated from a downloaded file and...still failed. Tried again, looked like it worked, but ended up in the endless loop again. Did a safe mode update (down arrow while powering up) and that failed the first time when I told it to save my patches. So I did it again in safe mode, but this time told it to trash my patches, and it seems to have worked. Maybe I had a corrupted patch that affected the flash? Who knows. I did make sure to follow up with a global reset (left arrow while powering up) and pedal calibration as appears necessary from my reading. Geez, not sure why I have had so much trouble. Thanks to everyone who replied to me and Indianrock2020. First time I've ever had an issue with my POD gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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