Reluctance to Flash.

well said I think I would have been supper frustrated by now if I had not flashed my aio.

There software doesn't even use all your carts up. I can print with what ever I want and now mod it to my hearts content.
true no support from xyz but .... I never found their support to be of much help anyway.

just to clarify, you only can revert to stock FW on first generation, so far on new generation 1.0a/2.0a and AiO there is no way I know to revert to stock, because the FW is somehow encrypted and cannot be flashed as it is.

I have a one month old DaVinci 1.0a that i will be flashing if i can find out all the info on how. I found i have the bad new firmware 1.0.1 and older videos on flashing were saying this one was not currently flashable, but it sounds like they are. I will start my research into it tomorrow, but for now are there any big tips or guides you can point me towards?

Thank you! Looking forward to not getting crap prints and having some control!

This is my first post to the forum. I just purchased a Da Vinci 1.0 AiO, despite all the bad things I've heard about it, because reading around the Net I became convinced it could be usable if used properly. So I have not even unboxed it yet (because I need to use it at another location), but I've already started searching for tips and hints, and found this forum. I've been taking notes and bookmarking posts left and right for the past two hours. (I'm particularly looking forward to trying carl_m1968's calibration technique.)

Just from what I've read so far, though, I remain unconvinced, because of two words that I've seen popping up in reference to the AiO: "no scanning." Does this literally mean what I fear it means? Will this literally render scanning unusable? Because that's sure what this sounds like:

If so, I would think that would merit a bold-faced caveat.

And if that is the case, which I would think would make flashing out of the question for the the 90% (?) of AiO owners who do not already own a better scanner, are there posts I've missed that specifically help AiO users "mess with resetters and hack gcode"?

Thanks in advance for any help!

P.S.: I bought mine here in Japan, through Amazon.co.jp, and apparently the support is no better here, judging from the furious reviews.

Just so you know in honesty the built in scanner is garbage. it will not scan anything or part that is less than 2 inches. You also need to have every surface matt ot flat finished meaning having to cover everything in Talcum powder before scanning it use flocking spray made just for scanning. You get much better results from the Kinect and Scanect software and can scan much much smaller and much larger items. Most who have bought the Aoi around here have given up on the scanner and flashed to get better quality prints.

I'm just amazed people are still buying the AiO given all the bad press it's had.

I suggest don't upgrade until you know what the machine is doing. My scanner I never upgraded and my scans are coming out real good. Also using xyzscan that came with my machine.

If the scans are not good you can try an earlier ver of xyzscan. I'm using ver 1.1.18

OK, I am one of the holdouts on flashing my 1.0A.  I really want to but understand it is a one way trip for me.

I have a couple of questions on some things I would like to firm up before taking the plunge:

1.  I use Simplify 3d.  I know you can use another slicer but I like this one atm.  Anyway can someone who has a 1.0A confirm that Simplify3D works well?

2.  If I flash it to Rep. will I need to keep the computer on or does it upload to the printer like it does now?  I feel I should know this but for some reason I don't.

Thanks

My problem is that I don't see much stuff out there on flashing it on a 2.0. Anyone know where I could go to see a nice simple run down of doing it? It would be worth its weight in gold not dealing with XYZ ware alone.