SD card Init fail error - Is card formatted FAT32?

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I had an odd issue happen with my 5" Nextion enhanced display last night and I thought I’d share the resolution here in case others have the same problem (or I forget and go searching for the answer again :slightly_smiling_face:).

I find that using the SD card to update the display firmware is extremely useful, especially during the development cycle when I’m getting the MCU and the Nextion code working together. I probably did 20 or 30 updates yesterday. At the end of the day, the Nextion refused to recognize the SD card and kept asking if I had formatted it FAT32. Of course I had, since I had been using the same card all day long.

With my preferred update method now apparently gone, I connected up a 3.3V USB/TTL adapter to the display and uploaded the new program. It uploaded with no problem. Just for kicks, I tried the SD card method again, and NOW IT WORKS!

Apparently the last time I uploaded the program from the SD card I shut the power off too quickly and left the display in some odd state. Going through the serial upload and reboot process appears to have fixed the problem.

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Thanks for posting this - it helped me get out of the same hole tonight :grinning:

…I programmed via SD card, powered off, removed card, powered back on and, for some reason powered it off again after about a second, while it was finishing off it’s initialisation.

I was left with extremely bright white violent rapid random flashing - it did it on every power on and wouldn’t recognise an inserted SD card

I connected it up to a serial port and tried to program a simple app through serial. It didn’t work, but on the second attempt it recognised the SD card I had left in it and programmed normally.

Phew - thought I had turned it into a brick. Thanks :+1: