Partial Flash sometimes equals Endless Flash
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, operating-systems
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by exercising the partial-flash flow through Flash on Windows 10 and inspect the editor and serial-activity behavior; done means identifying a reproducible cause or collecting actionable diagnostics for the stuck dialog.
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Description
When using the new partial-flash feature, I've experienced this symptom twice on a Win 10 system.
- Click Flash
- Dialog gets stuck like this

- Editor area (of app) is ghosted
- micro:bit's yellow serial activity LED blinks constantly (random rate, not fixed cadence)
- No recovery except to disconnect USB cable
Retested on Chromebook: no problems.
Retested on Win 10: can't reproduce.
Console didn't seem to have any helpful messages. Is there a way for me to provide more debugging information should this happen again?
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 201
- Forks
- 126
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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