Standard servo cables have the red voltage wire in the middle, however you need to change one end to swap the voltage and ground pins around and the other end connects to the smart port of your receiver. This is very easy for the X8R receiver, In the case of the X4R, or X4R-SB upgrade, a cable is already included with the receiver. All you need to do with the X4R cable is also swap the servo connector end so that the red wire is on the end and ground is in the middle.
Its a good idea to make sure your Taranis radio is fully charged as you could brick your device if the battery dies in the middle of the firmware upgrade process.
The first thing you need to do is download the latest firmware from the FRsky Website for your receiver.
You will also need to extract the firmware .frk file into the firmwares folder on the micro SD card in your Taranis radio
Now turn on your taranis and long press the menu button untill you enter the SD card browser, then navigate to the firmwares folder.
Now you need to select the firmware .frk file that you downlaoded for your receiver.
once you press enter a sub menu will open where you must select flash external device option.
You wlll then see a progress bar showing the progress of hte firmware flashing process. Once done you can turn off your taranis and unplug your receiver.
If you have any issues getting this working please let me know and I will be happy to try help.
Thanks for pointing that out, the images above are wrong . I guess that is what happens when you try make diagrams too late at night! I have just fixed them so thanks for pointing that out.
As for your X8R, doe you get any LEDâs now when you apply power to it?
Hi! Good there was at least some use for my failure (I mean pictures fixed and others will do better).
As for my receiver - nope, nothing lights up when I power it up.
First time after connecting and getting âfirmware update errorâ (before I realized the polarity was wrong) I powered the receiver up and got both green and red LEDs solid, thatâs when I started suspecting something went wrong. The next time I connected it correctly to the Taranis I got the same error, but after that LEDs wouldnât light up again.
So I suspect the voltage regulator got fried (at least I hope itâs the only thing fried ), will verify that later. In the meantime ordered a bunch of XC6201P332 (will arrive in something from a week to a month and a half).
I have a Taranis + fw 3-something. I have never come across the SD-card menu. When I press menu briefly I come to Model setup. Press a second I come to Radio setup. If I press a minute, still nothing more than radio setup. Tried to google SD-card menu, but with no luck. Can you offer any help?
Sorry, found it in the submenu under Radio setupâŚ
I am having a problem getting my Taranis to bind after I updated the firmware. It will not bind to anything now!!! I accidentally erased the File of the SD card, and now I canât find it anywhere? I tried even using OpenTX and re flashed my Taranis with the latest firmware, but still no luck!!! Itâs been a week now of me searching the internet and watching videos and people telling me how EASY it is , and that I only need to update the Taranis firmware. Well Iâve tried all that, and using OpenTX and it still wonât bind!!! When I go to the FRsky site, the files are a .rar extension and I canât put that on the SD card? Where do I go to get the .frk files?? Iâve looked everywhere and am getting ready to loose it, and just go back to Spektrum
You can download the frksy update files from their website. But did you load the LBT firmware onto your taranis? If so you will also need to load LBT firmware onto your receivers for them to work, otherwise you should go back to the international firmware. Also another thing to double check is to make sure both your receiver and taranais are set to the same mode, D8, D16 etcâŚ
i get this error when trying to flash my X4rsb eu to non eu i have a taranis qx7 with international firmware.im connect via smartport. I managed to power the rx from the back if the qx7 but had to change my external rf settings to ppm to get power. Plz help
Can only post 3 replies, logical, but sometimes maybe not handy;
YES, Hero! it works. I did try it but with the crossed servo cable, with the straight one in the future use plug, it works perfectly.
Many thanks for sharing this!!!
. I guess that is what happens when you try make diagrams too late at night! I have just fixed them so thanks for pointing that out.
(I mean pictures fixed and others will do better).
