Arduino Sketch upload issue - avrdude stk500 recv programmer is not responding

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I have an Arduino Duemilanove with an ATmega328  I am working on Ubuntu nbsp 12 04  Precise Pangolin   and the Arduino IDE s version is 1 0  Recently  I tried to upload a few of the sample sketches onto it  such as the Blink one  However  none of my attempts are working and they result in the same error every time I try it      avrdude  stk500 recv    programmer is not responding      I have enabled  dev ttyUSB0 under menu Tools  rarr  Serial Port  I have also selected the correct board  Duemilanove with ATmega328  from the list  Yet  I am not able to resolve the issue  I have searched online as well and none of the other responses for this problem seem to be working for me  Why I am encountering this issue and how to resolve it   I also tried turning the onboard ATmega and fitting it in the other direction  Now  I encounter no problems uploading  but nothing happens afterwards  The onboard LED also does not seem to be blinking

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Here is a solution that worked for me running on a MacBook Pro (desktop).

I was getting the same error and it turns out it's because I had the USB connected to a peripheral device (my monitor) rather than a USB on the PC itself. It stopped any errors right away and is a simple solution.

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I was having the same issue and resolved it myself   First  I have an  OSEPP UNO r3 PLUS   It s an Arduino Uno REV 3 made by OSEPP   I just bought an OSEPP Motor and Servo controller shield  I just got motors working and then I stumbled upon the same error  avrdude  stk500 recv    programmer is not responding   I guess while it was connected it made assigned a new serial port  Found in the Arduino program under menu Tools  rarr  Serial Port  I just reselected the one related to the Arduino Uno and bam  problem resolved

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I connected the DTR pin of my FT232RL to the DTR pin of my Arduino and it resolved the issue   I m using the Arduino Pro Mini w  ATMega328

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I found the cause of this     Changing my serial port to  dev tty usbmodem2131 fixed it  It turns out I was using the wrong serial port this whole time

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I solved the issue on OS nbsp X v10 10  Yosemite  following these instructions   FTDI chip and OS X 10 10  However the trick proposed by hoipolloi was a working temporary workaround  on this version too

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I had the same problem on my first trying of Arduino Uno   My solution was quite simple  Just plug out then plug in the USB cable

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You can check if you have any jumper wires plugged into pin 0 and 1  Those pins are used for serial communication and plugged wires can prevent the code from being uploaded on the board   If nothing is plugged  it might be a bug with AVRDUDE  you can try updating it

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You can try    Check in preferences txt serial debug rate  serial debug rate 9600 Else try to hit the reset button of your Arduino just when uploading  Else try to select another card in the Arduino IDE menu Tools and then reselect your card in the list

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Are you sure nothing else is using your connection  I had the same issue and  after some hours of research  I found that my root cause was different  Essentially I had to kill a task launched by a Python script that was using the serial connection  In my case this worked great   sudo killall python   This will kill - unceremoniously - all the current python processes

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I m posting this because I didn t find this answer elsewhere  All my Arduino nano chinese  CH340  clones had this problem after upgrading to the Arduino IDE to 1 8 9  What worked for me was to use a spare official Arduino Uno that I have to burn the bootloader on the faulty nanos using the ICSP headers on the nano  For this all I did was to follow the instructions here  chinese-clone-of-arduino-nano-with-chip-ch340g-how-to-fix-it  The ONLY thing I did differently was to always set the  Old Bootloader  option as said before in this thread  Other than that I completely followed the instruction on that link and saved my nanos from that annoying problem  I hope that this helps someone out there

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In MAC OS  just rebooted the computer and it worked after the reboot

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I just spent the last few hours on this same issue    Just go here  http   www ftdichip com Drivers VCP htm   download the latest drivers and reboot  Should work just fine after that  I also downloaded a nightly of the Arduino software  but I don t hunk that made a difference

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I had the same problem     this is why I found this Question  I only had to change the Processor from    ATmega328P    to    ATmega328P  Old Bootloader     Problem solved     at least for me

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Thanks  hoipolloi for the right direction in finding the solution    Anyway  I had to do a bit different steps to fix the issue   In my case  the Arduino Uno had worked fine  but it suddenly stopped after some playing with sketches  I was receiving the stk500 recv    programmer is not responding all the time and nothing worked  Then I paid attention that the LED 13 is always ON on my board  It looked like some hard looped sketch was running over and over on the board and was blocking any input to the board  Not sure  it s just my gues   I tried clicking the RESET at all the possible moments without any luck and suddenly tried the following steps    Unplug the board  Click and hold RESET  Plug it again  Wait for a couple of seconds  Release the RESET button    After this I noticed the onboard 13 LED turned off for a second and then turned on again  It looked like there were a short reset window when the board is actually being reset  Then as in  hoipolloi s solution I caught the moment of  reset  right before the three packets are sent and that worked   I hope this will help you to figure out the problem if none of other solutions works   TIP  If you do not see the three Send  0  30     20  lines when uploading the sketch in your console  do the following    Click  Upload  in your Arduino IDE  Look at the log window  You will be able to find a line like this   E  Program Files  x86  Arduino hardware tools avr bin avrdude -CE  Program Files  x86  Arduino hardware tools avr etc avrdude conf -v -patmega328p -carduino -PCOM3 -b115200 -D -Uflash w C  Users Sergey AppData Local Temp build44ca75bc60fd83cc8ef41e35d4d83388 tmp sketch sep07a ino hex i  Looks like it swallows line break or space symbols like here -CE  Program Files     It should be -C E  Program Files  Copy this like into Notepad  add missing spaces to make the line this   E  Program Files  x86  Arduino hardware tools avr bin avrdude -v -v -v -v -C  E  Program Files  x86  Arduino hardware tools avr etc avrdude conf  -patmega328p -carduino -PCOM3 -b115200 -D -U flash w C  Users Sergey AppData Local Temp build44ca75bc60fd83cc8ef41e35d4d83388 tmp sketch sep07a ino hex i  Add 4 -v instructions like I did above  Open the Command Line  paste the command into it and run    Now you will see much more verbose thanks to 4 -v arguments  Originally  Arduino Studio uses just one

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Try to load a program without -b  the baud rate option   In    arduino15 preferences txt set build verbose true  when arduino cc is not running  In the verbose output you will find the hex file which you should load from a console   avrdude -v -v -v -v -C usr share arduino hardware tools avr etc avrdude conf -patmega328p -carduino -P dev ttyUSB2  -D -Uflash w  tmp build2314497724350388190 tmp sketch nov13b cpp hex i   I just replace the chip 128 with the 328 version and from Decimile my board name was changed to Uno or Ethernet due to the new baud rate 115200

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I tried to connect my servo to the Arduino 5V pin  but the processor and that is why I got this failure     avrdude  stk500 recv    programmer is not responding   Solution  buy a new Arduino and external 5 V power supply for the servo

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Make sure that there is no input on the Tx Rx pins  Then it will work

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There is some voodoo-talk in the answers around here among good ideas  Let s try to be a bit more real about what s happening and sum up the good stuff to check   Basically  when that happens  it is a good idea to enable verbose mode for AVRDUDE  to get a better idea of what s happening  To do so  you only need to go in the preferences and check the verbose mode box  It s also a good idea to move away from the Arduino IDE  and launch a console to be more comfortable on reading AVRDUDE s output  that you ll get on clicking on the upload button   What s important here to put 3 or 4 -v to the command call  Here s how looks like such AVRDUDE commands  with made up parameters as they are totally dependent on how the Arduino has been installed   avrdude -v -v -v -v -C  path to avrdude conf -patmega328 -P dev usbport -U flash w  path to firmware hex   A good way to get the correct command line to use is to copy it from the verbose output of the Arduino IDE output log when verbosity has been enabled   When you get avrdude  stk500 recv    programmer is not responding  it basically means that something wrong is happening  before the flashing actually begins   Basically you have to check  from hardware to software  low level to high level     if the cable and or connectors does not have microcuts  if no solder points are short circuiting  i e  touching something metallic around   that means    if there is no short circuit on the PCB between Rx and Tx  usually pins 1 and 0   if there is no contact with a metallic element below the board  or tiny bits between a component s legs  like the FTDI  the ATmega chip or any other    if the ATmega chip is not out of power  GND VCC shortcut or cut or VCC input being dead      if the 1 and 0 pins of the Arduino are not being used by some shield or custom design      does not apply to the Leonardo as it has independent USB handling   if the USB to UART converter does not have a problem  FTDI on older Duemilanove or ATmega16U2 on newer Arduino Unos   if the ATmega328 chip is fried or wrongly installed  if the bootloader has been overwritten or is failing  if the right baudrate is applied for entering the bootloader  if the right settings are set for the target microcontroller and Board    Usually the avrdude -v -v -v -v can help a lot find at which stage it is failing  Whether it can t make a USB connection at all  cable failing  USB UART  PCB      or it is a bootloader problem      Update  I tried turning the onboard ATmega and fitting it in the other direction  Now  I encounter no problems uploading  but nothing happens afterwards  The onboard LED also does not seem to be blinking    I m afraid that if you reversed the position of the ATmega  and then it does not work  the fact that you placed the power source on digital pins may have burnt your chip

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For my case it was the wrong baud rate  It calls this command    C  Program Files  x86  Arduino hardware tools avr bin avrdude -CC  Program Files  x86  Arduino hardware tools avr etc avrdude conf -v -patmega328p -carduino -PCOM4   -b57600   -D -Uflash w C  Users Vahid AppData Local Temp arduino build 527841 AnalogReadSerial ino hex i    As you can see  the baud rate is set to 57600  When you remove this argument  -b57600  and run it in command line it works fine

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Did you install update the driver for the FTDI cable   Step three on http   arduino cc en Guide Howto    Running the Arduino IDE from my Raspberry Pi worked fine without explicitly installing the drivers  either they were pre-installed or the Arduino IDE installer took care of it    On my Mac this was not the case and I had to install the cable drivers in addition to the IDE

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I had the same problem with the Arduino Due  and most of the solutions proposed did not work   The L LED was constantly on  My problem was resolved by unistalling the IDE and picking the experimental version 1 5 8  Then in the board I chose the bottom option Arduino Due  programming port    Of course  you need to connect the USB cable on the programming port too

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I met this issue too  and I resolved it by re-installing USB serial driver  Pls see also http   arduino cc en Guide Howto and http   www ftdichip com Drivers VCP htm

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Try to see if your board was selected correctly  Click on menu Tools --  Board and check if the correct board is select

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I had to select the correct board  Go to menu Tools  rarr  Boards  rarr  Arduino Nano for example

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Please do the following checks   1- No wires in the TX and RX of your arduino while uploading the code  2- No soldered pins in each others  3- If 1 and 2 are okey than you must reinstall the bootloader into your arduino using another arduino  you can search how to do that in youtube there plenty of videos talking about it

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If you are connecting your Arduino through a USB Hub  try to connect it directly into one of the USB ports on the Mac instead  That worked for me

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Just thought I d point out that my brand new Arduino Uno Rev3 board uses the following LInux driver   Device Drivers      -USB Drivers    -USB Modem  CDC ACM  support   This is known as the  CONFIG USB ACM  option in the most recent LInux 3 x kernel   This device then comes up as   dev ttyACM0 or similar

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This combination of the above answers solved the problem for me    performed the Java update   sudo apt-get install default-jdk then killed the Arduino IDE and restarted it my correct board now showed up  Arduino Mega 2560  where before Mega 1280 was only option  for the drivers  I did this   sudo chmod a rw  dev serial by-id usb-Arduino  www arduino cc   a bunch of numbers    After that  my Arduino IDE shows  dev ttyACM0 in the tools serial port menu   Now  everything works great

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In my case the main chip on the newly purchased board was not fully inserted  - The legs of the chip on one side were inserted into the slots  and on the other side they were not fully inserted  The chip stood slightly skewed  So  I just pushed the chip into the slots and the error dissapeared

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Above error comes in 3 stages   If boot loader has been crashed if you not selected proper port and proper board from IDE If you communicating with other Serial port are connected I e  GND and Tx pin are connected to other communicating device

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My problem was that I updated the Arduino IDE to a new version and did not reconnect the wire  Looks like that was the problem  Just disconnect the cable and connect again  Thanks

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On Windows 7  I had this problem multiple times  each time with different error messages  Basically  the IDE is sending to the wrong port   To fix this  simply go to menu Tools  rarr  Ports  rarr   select the COM port that your board is on    Make sure to double check your board s port    Start Device Manager   Make sure your Arduino driver is listed under the port matching your IDE s port settings  mentioned above    My board is listed under port COM1  If you want  you can simply change the port in the driver s advanced settings

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In my case the problem was raised when I was trying to do some  weird  arithmetic expressions  eg  3 14 4  5  or 3 15 2 55   So  I would suggest you to check all the arithmetic expressions in case some of them cannot be calculated by the Arduino   Hope it helps

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I solved a problem in my case by downloading and installing old FDTM drivers from here   Try to install FTDIUSBSerialDriver 10 4 10 5 10 6 10 7 mpkg  then re-start Arduino

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In my case  Mini Pro   solution was so simple  not sure how I missed that  I needed to crossover rx tx wires   Solution    Arduino Rx pin goes to FTDI Tx pin  Arduino Tx pin goes to FTDI Rx pin

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I had this problem with a Crowduino  running the Arduino IDE on OS nbsp X  The solution for me was to switch on verbose output during upload  in the Arduino IDE preferences pane    Then  when uploading  you can see AVRDUDE sending three packets avrdude  Send  0  30     20   with corresponding RX flashes on the board  right before the avrdude  ser recv    programmer is not responding error   The trick is to hit the reset button on the board immediately before these three packets are sent  Then the program will be uploaded successfully

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First  ensure that  dev ttyUSB0 works  E g  plug in mouse and check it works   Second  try select other board  It is often that non-original boards do not recognized correctly under their names  Third  try press reset button manually while uploading sketch  Probably automatic reset is broken

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I have this problem on my Arduino running on Mac also  It happens on two of my Arduinos  A Arduino Uno and an Arduino Pro connected with FTDI      For the Uno  I hook the cable up to my computer and press upload  and then start counting until the  TX  LED flashes   Then repeat the upload  but just before the TX LED flashes  hit the reset button  and the upload succeeds    I later determined that changing the USB cable fixed this issue

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For me it was as simple as setting the right ports      To set that  go to menu Tools  rarr  Port  and change from COM1 to the appropriate port    After this my program worked correctly

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Have you got anything connected to the RESET pin on the Arduino   I ve encountered this issue with a graphic LCD which needed connecting to the RESET Pin  Disconnecting the jumper wire between the LCD and the RESET pin while uploading the code fixed it for me  all you d have to do then is reconnect once the code has finished uploading

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