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Mini-HowTo Flashing the Taranis X9D (not plus)







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The short version: Download ZaDig. It lets you install a different driver for a piece of hardware.

You need to plug your Taranis in "correctly". Now for me, I had it switched off, and plugged in a Mini usb to the rear of the device. Your PC May give a notification that it has been plugged in; it may not.

Alternate to above: The Taranis has a "bootloader mode" . To access it, press the left and right trim (underneath the big joysticks) towards the center or powerswitch. I found that if you do that with the usb cable plugged in while it was already off, it gave me good success as well. Give it a try! If you do this without the usb cable in, it will tell you the current firmware version you are running.

. To access it, press the left and right trim (underneath the big joysticks) towards the center or powerswitch. I found that if you do that with the usb cable plugged in while it was already off, it gave me good success as well. Give it a try! You've got ZaDig ready? good. It does not need to install, so just run it. You will need to change your Driver for the Taranis. It will appear as STM32 Bootloader . Can't see it? Try clicking on Options -> List all Devices.

. Try clicking on Options -> List all Devices. Once you've found it, Look for the big button. It may say replace driver, or install driver. Depends on what you've tried earlier. Mine said "Stub" as its original driver. It's safe to replace it, with WinUSB.

Done? Yay! Now you can use companion 2.0. Link here. As of Writing, the newest stable version was 2.0.17.

With the file, you download the Windows installer/ companion. It's an installer. Don't worry about the firmware itself, it will grab it for you latter.

Install Companion 2.0.

When it first runs, it will ask to get the latest firmware. Say yes, and remember where it goes.

Put your Taranis in bootloader mode (see above), and click Read/Write -> Write Firmware to Radio (it's near the bottom). Point to your file, and go! The process takes about a minute.

Power cycle your Taranis after all is done, and you'll see the attachment image about EEProm warning. Press a button and go.

You are done.



The reason:



The stock Tarnis X9D (Not Plus!) does not get easily picked up by the software OpenTX Companion 2.0. So you can't flash firmware to it by default. This gives you a lot of problems with getting yourself to 2.0 and beyond. Because once you are there, it's easy to update! It's just that the stock versions of a Taranis X9D Need a bit of help being able to get here.



This likely does not apply to the newer X9D Plus, as the stock firmware being flashed at the factory is a version from 2.0 . Here's a topic that has a lot of writeups on the web, and unfortunately a lot of them are out of date... Espcially ones which involve installing an old version of Companion to be able to get it to a usable version, ugh! Software has a lot to answer for.So, I started with this guide , which is great.The stock Tarnis X9D (Not Plus!) does not get easily picked up by the software OpenTX Companion 2.0. So you can't flash firmware to it by default. This gives you a lot of problems with getting yourself to 2.0 and beyond. Because once you are there, it's easy to update! It's just that the stock versions of a Taranis X9D Need a bit of help being able to get here.This likely does not apply to the newer X9D Plus, as the stock firmware being flashed at the factory is a version from 2.0 . Images View all Images in thread Views: 131



When you have flashed, this will be the first message you see. It's ok! It's just letting you know there has been a change.