FEZ Cobra II Exception - Reboot Cycle

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I have been trying to get an RLP function working on my FEZ Cobra. The C function was programmed with the wrong memory address in rlp.h.

The program throws an exception when calling the rlp function.

When I power up the module, I can see that the module is not waiting for debug commands like it used to, it immediately starts the program and then throws the exception.

How can I get back into “debug” mode so that I can reprogram it with code that won’t crash?

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Erase your program using MFDeploy.

3

Right and more detail:

  • Incase your device gets stuck in RLP, and MFDeploy can not see the device, keep your device stay in TinyBooter mode,
  • Click Earse, default it will erase Deployment and User Storage

When work with RLP, I usually use a button at the begin of main function.


void main()
{
         Input button = new Input......
         while(button.Read()== true)
         {
              Thread.sleep(100);
         }

         /// Press button to start code including RLP
}

So using that way, incase RLP has any error and hangs forever, just restart and you can deploy again.

4

Thanks to both of you, that was what I needed to know.
And, I am adding the button check to my code right now…

5

thanks… two nice tips just added to the RLP documentation.

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Should also be added to the general debugging document.