Restoring Your Broken XBee

Step 4: Reseting the XBee

Now click the write button on X-CTU.  It should give you an error message, but do not click out of this one.  Flip over the XBee Explorer.  Now, take your jumper wire and touch RST (not RTS) to the GND pin of the Explorer for about a second.  Take away the jumper wire.  The error message should go away!  It will start to load the firmware on.  Once the error message comes up again, repeat the above step again.  Now your XBee has been restored!

Comments

[jsohail1]

same errors are being displayed by my xbee but this method jst didnt work . the error msg in the last step didnot go away when i shorted RST and GND . any suggestion ?

[Qtechknow]

Hmm... Try XB-24ZB for the modem and Zigbee Coordinator API for the device, and then if that works, try again with the same modem, but with the device that you want your XBee to have the firmware of. When I originally made the Instructable, I figured out that sometimes you need to burn the firmware of a different modem for different XBees to function correctly. Thanks!