Help commissioning imp

Hardware
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I feel silly for not being able to commission my new imp, as the process seems straight forward, but after repeated tries I have been unsuccessful and am looking for help.

I have an imp with a Sparkfun imp breakout board powered by USB (with the jumper for USB power). I am using a Samsung Galaxy S3 and I have closed all applications and turned up the screen brightness. I am sitting in the dark and covering the imp during blink-up.

When I first power on the device it blinks orange (as I believe it should) indicating it’s ready for blink-up. When I start the blink-up the LEDs in the imp stop blinking, however, after blink-up completes the imp goes back to blinking orange. I do not ever see the green LED or red LED individually.

I have tried with my home router and a second Android phone acting as a wireless hotspot. I was not successful with either connection. Additionally, it doesn’t seem like a connection issue, because the imp never flashes the green LED to say it received the network configuration via blink-up (it also doesn’t light the red LED to say blink-up failed).

Any suggestions? Thanks!

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Are you sure there is no red/orange combination like described here?

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I tried again and paid attention closely to the colour. The only colour I get is orange. If I look closely I can see both the green and red LEDS on together to make the orange.

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Is it possible to use an other phone/tablet?

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I did try on my Kindle Fire Gen 1 running N2A Android 4.2, but I didn’t get any different results. There is only another Samsung S3 in the home to try, but I’ll give it a go this evening. I’ll report back with my results.

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You should turn power save mode off on the S3, and use legacy blinkup mode.

Developer edition imps were made about 18 months ago and so have a very old OS version, which will update as soon as you get them online. You still need to get it online though…