Mysophobe

Costs a small fortune to post to the US, I'll have to think about it, in the meantime It'll give my oscilloscope something to do (Not opening the shielded areas though, it'll get messy)

Just got my pineapple off the shelf, where it's been sat idle for months and it's decided to brick itself... On powering it up; the LEDs show Green, Blue, Red and just sit there. Tried a factory reset Tried manual flashing with factory-1.2.0.bin as the wiki says. Also tried with a Ext4 SD ( 2 of them) With the DIPs in 0,1,1,0,0 (just a random setting) only Green & Blue light, but again just hangs there. Any ideas what's going on? Edit: On closer inspection when in a random DIP arrangement the Red is very dim and the Blue is also dimmer than in normal configuration.

I'd say it's definitely a bad firmware issue. Just make sure you do a factory reset correctly. This is how I have done it Looking at the switches (aerials on the right) from right to left the switches need to be UP, DOWN, DOWN, UP, UP Make sure you have the SD card loaded & the 1.0.4 firmware is on it (check the md5 on your computer) Power up the unit (not on battery) and it should go through the sequence as described on the card (6 steps) Connect the LAN cable to the pineapple and your computer. It can connect through a router (i think) as long as you manually set your IP to 172.16.42.42 / 255.255.255.0 If all goes well.. browse to http://172.16.42.1:1471 and wait for the word CONTINUE to appear. Before it reboots I think it best to put all the DIPs in the UP position again. It should then load the Web interface and get going after you login again That's all the advise I can give really Goodluck

When you say "reflashed" do you mean you copied a different Firmware to it? because a solid red means its a bad MD5 according to the booklet. The 2GB card that comes with it has everything needed to get it up and running. Try running it again as a factory reset (DIP switches 2 & 3 down) If it gets a solid red again, format an SD card and download the 1.0.4 binary - https://wifipineapple.com/?downloads Check the MD5 when it's on the card. Insert into Pineapple and power it up. Only got mine yesterday so I'm no expert but have done a factory reset twice already :D

Here's what I did (due to being very impatient) 1. Removed the innards from the charger plug (1 screw) 2. Cut the 2 pin wires (both are red) 3. Attached the 2 wires to a cable with UK plug on it (red to Blue, red to Brown, crossed fingers) 3A fuse 4. Housed it all back into an IP20 box, it's translucent so I can see the LEDs All seems fine, & it can be returned to new with 2 spots of solder :) Update: Charged overnight no problems + my house is still standing!