Today, I successfully updated my Ender 5 Pro's firmware to TH3D Unified Firmware UFW_U1.R2.B3. So, at least as far as my Silent 1.1.5 board is concerned, it definitely has a bootloader built in. Very nice to know.
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YES! I was so thrilled at that also when I upgrade my regular 5 to the silent board. Makes it so much easier and less expensive as you don't have to buy an arduino or anything! I also used the TH3D firmware and miss the scrolling filename on the lcd. Seems the th3d has a static one that just shows whatever characters fit. I will have to search and see if that can be changed in the firmware.
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I never even noticed that. Good luck with resolving it. I bet though, if you contact TH3D, they likely will look into incorporating that feature. OR........ we could ask the great & powerful DrVAX to contact them on our behalf. I'm betting he has had contact with them before and may even be 'friends' with some of them. C'mon Doc, come out from behind that curtain šLast edited by Ender5r; 06-05-2020, 11:26 AM.
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I now suspect I know what TH3D will say. I found some notes on their site to the effect that they had to leave out a number of things due to memory constraints on the 1.1.5 board. Seems like another good reason to upgrade to a 32 bit board (like the TH3D EZ Board Lite).
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Originally posted by Ender5r View PostI now suspect I know what TH3D will say. I found some notes on their site to the effect that they had to leave out a number of things due to memory constraints on the 1.1.5 board. Seems like another good reason to upgrade to a 32 bit board (like the TH3D EZ Board Lite).
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Originally posted by StumblingBumblingIdiot View Post
Yea the memory restraints are crazy on these boards. I may go 32-bit one day but hate to rip it all apart while it is working pretty good lol
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My Ender 5 Pro arrived back early June, and it actually did not ship with a bootloader installed. This was accomplished easily enough though with my Arduino and the free Anduino IDE. An alternative option would be to use a usb programmer like the one that ships with the BLTouch, and use the Arduino IDE in tangent. Iāve been able to successfully get my firmware updated to the latest Marlin 2.0.x since then with BLTouch as well. That little 8bit chipped is now at max capacity though. 32bit upgrade is in my near future I think.
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Originally posted by 3dVit View PostEnder 5 Pro arrived back early June, and it actually did not ship with a bootloader installed.
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Originally posted by Ender5r View Post
Can I ask which board your Ender 5 came with? I ask because my understanding is that 1 of the major selling points of the Pro version is that it came with the 1.1.5 board, and all 1.1.5's are supposed to have an onboard bootloader. It would be interesting if that's not the case.
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OK. that's pretty odd all right. I remember, when I was having issues when my printer was brand new (end of May 2020), I fixed an issue with the Creality v1.1.8 firmware by flashing my printer with TH3D Unified. This is how I discovered my 1.1.5 board did, in fact, have a bootloader. I searched the Internet to get a definitive answer to whether 1.1.5s did or did not have one. I could not find a definitive answer. Perhaps your experience is 1 reason why. In the end, I simply tried it, and it worked
Are there any particular advantages to the 2.x version?
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Originally posted by Ender5r View PostOK. that's pretty odd all right. I remember, when I was having issues when my printer was brand new (end of May 2020), I fixed an issue with the Creality v1.1.8 firmware by flashing my printer with TH3D Unified. This is how I discovered my 1.1.5 board did, in fact, have a bootloader. I searched the Internet to get a definitive answer to whether 1.1.5s did or did not have one. I could not find a definitive answer. Perhaps your experience is 1 reason why. In the end, I simply tried it, and it worked
Are there any particular advantages to the 2.x version?
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I look forward to reading about the firmware update & the filament. BTW, I presume you meant to type "400 to 800" for the leadscrew. That's the change I had to make. That's 1 of the issues I had with my printer right out of the box. Let me tell you, 3D Benchy looks really odd at only half height
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Yeah good catch... 400 to 800. Took me a bit to figure that out. I wasnāt sure what was going on there. The calibration cube looked like a square hamburger. And the benchy, yeah.... more like a sunken squashed benchy recovered from the bottom of the ocean. š
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