I’ve been using a rebranded Flashforge Adventurer 3 (it’s actually a Bresser Rex that I got 50% off at Aldi) and have been really happy with it. The build volume is a bit smallish, but for most of what I’m doing it’s fine.
So today I boot it up and after a while, it just hangs after a minute or so. I switched it on and off, did a factory reset, tried disconnecting mains for a while, nothing helped. Also checked my DNS blocker to see if some internet requests were getting blocked.
But what did work - weirdly enough - was to deactivate wireless. It’s a small nuisance copying files over via USB, but one I can live with. At least I can continue printing!
After I printed a thing I was able to reconnect wireless about five-six hours later.
Thanks for all your suggestions! My working theory is that either the electronics are dying or a connectivity issue, that the device is trying to connect to an update server or whatever.
The former would be a poor show for a device with just 500h of usage, and the latter would be really really bad programming. Either way, it’s a problem with a relatively easy workaround!
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Have you tried power cycling your router?
Assuming this is the printer. It looks like it has both wired and wireless networking. Does it work over wired ethernet or does that fail as well?
After I printed a thing I was able to reconnect wireless about five-six hours later.
Thanks for all your suggestions! My working theory is that either the electronics are dying or a connectivity issue, that the device is trying to connect to an update server or whatever.
The former would be a poor show for a device with just 500h of usage, and the latter would be really really bad programming. Either way, it’s a problem with a relatively easy workaround!