What Is the Latest Ev3 Firmware Update

Troubleshooting

Download issues

If you’re having trouble getting your code onto the EV3 Brick, try these steps to see if you can gear up the trouble.

Cheque your
EV3
firmware

MakeCode needs a firmware version of
one.10E
or higher installed on your brick.

To check the the firmware version on your EV3 Brick:

1. Go to the
   Settings
   carte du jour (it’s under the wrench tool symbol)
2. Select
   Brick Info
   and press ENTER

3. Check the version number under
   Brick FW:

If yous can’t detect the
Brick Info
or y’all see that the version is less than
1.10E,
you need to upgrade your firmware.

Upgrade your
EV3

If your a firmware version level is less than
1.10E, yous need to install an upgraded version. You lot can upgrade the firmware with the
EV3 Lab
or
EV3 Programming
software. Also, yous can do a transmission upgrade past downloading the firmware install file. Run across the
Firmware Update
back up page to learn about the upgrade process.

Tin can I see the
EV3
drive on my reckoner?

When your EV3 Brick is connected to your estimator, you lot should see a new drive called
EV3
attached.

On Windows, information technology looks like this in Explorer:

If you don’t see the
EV3
drive, make certain your brick is powered on and check that your USB connexion is good.

The display on the EV3 Brick is bare

Make sure your EV3 Brick is charged and powered on. If your it doesn’t turn on, find the charger and plug it into wall ability, so connect information technology to your EV3 Brick. Does it plow on and outset up?

I still tin’t encounter my EV3 drive

Brand certain that one finish of your USB cablevision is firmly inserted into a USB port on the computer and the other end is continued to the EV3 Brick. If you even so can’t see the
EV3
drive, effort a unlike port on the figurer. If that doesn’t work then maybe your cable is faulty or you need to reset the EV3 Brick.

Why can’t I delete my program (*.uf2) files from the Brick?

At that place’s a bug in the firmware which prevents you from deleting the programs (*.uf2
files) from your EV3 Brick. There isn’t a firmware update to fix this all the same.

We accept prepared a special program that lets you delete UF2 files from the brick. Download
these PDF instructions
and drib the PDF on the brick bulldoze. This will nowadays y’all with an menu for deleting files.

For other mutual questions, try the FAQ folio
https://makecode.mindstorms.com/faq.

How practice I reset my EV3 Brick?

If y’all retrieve your USB connexion is proficient and you even so can’t run across your
EV3
drive, try giving the EV3 Brick a reset. Y’all can follow these steps to reset:

1. Using a finger from one hand, press the
   Back
   button. Keep holding it.
2. With your other mitt, utilize 2 fingers to concur down both the
   Left
   button and the
   Eye
   button. Y’all concur these at the same time while you’re still pressing the
   Back
   button.
3. At present, release your finger from the
   Back
   button.
4. When the EV3 Brick says “Starting..” you tin can permit get of the
   Left
   and
   Enter
   buttons.

You can as well sentinel this
How to Reset
video.

LEGO Support

If you’ve checked everything here and can’t get the
EV3
drive to evidence upward on your reckoner, you tin’t make the EV3 Brick reset, or your program just won’t download, and so endeavour the
Troubleshooting Walkthrough.

You lot tin also detect more than help at
LEGO Support.