How to update the firmware and overcome some issues with the Celestron Firmware Manager (CFM) regarding, Starting the CFM software, javaScript settings, and scope detection.
Everything worked as you described but after specifying the correct port the telescope was still unable to be found. I decided to try every 5 pin mini b cable I had lying around before trying anything else. The fourth one did the trick. Anyone following this guide who still has trouble by the end, try another cable. I remember having those issues way back when the 5 pin mini connection was cutting edge. Thank you for the fix, from the USA in July 2023.
Thanks for this video. This literally should NOT be this difficult. Celestron certainly F'd up this process. This should have been an easy plug and update..boom, done! Without this video, I wouldn't have a clue how to do this.
Happy to help out. It’s strange how the video is still relevant. I agree you would think that celestron would have done it fully executable without secondary software and having to change settings by know.
I know right? Seriously I am struggling even after this video getting my telescope to update. I’m actually quite ashamed of myself because of that. I have been building my own PCs for about 20 years, which really has nothing to do with learning the operating system, but at the same time it does make you feel ashamed of yourself to have this kind of trouble getting something as simple as a firmware manager to work with a $3000 telescope. I don’t think the programmers at Celestron understand their customers. I am shocked that they have not squared away the CFM, and made it more user-friendly. They really dropped the ball on this.
@@roughdragon4013 yeah if it wasn’t for your video, a lot of us would be SOL! Especially those of us who keep buying their peripherals ! What I love about my brothers from across the pond you guys always do such a thorough job of explaining things , without any of the ego that you’re find in the videos on the same subject from your US counterparts. That’s why I always try to find how to videos on complex subjects like this one from people like you. There is truly nothing worse than watching a video on a very aggravating subject like the CFM manager, and having some punk kid talking down to you making you feel inferior. You certainly don’t do that, and for that you have my respect and I’m sure a lot of people that have watched your video feel the same way. You never make us feel stupid and I appreciate that my friend.
You might spot from my pic I'm wearing HD25,s industry standard headphones for Television / Film Location Sound recording as I've been in the TV industry for over 25 yrs.... and Yup your V/O audio sucks and sounds as if you used a pillow for a microphone. However your knowledge of getting Java to work is exceptional with this dinosaur piece of software from Celestron and I am super grateful, as I can't seem to detect my fancy new Starsense Camera on it's local network and unfortunately my last hope is a firmware update. Wish me luck , another wish is I Wish I had never gone down the proprietary Celestron rabbit hole. Cheers Kris
If your still having issues try the following 1 different usb port preff usb 2 as usb 3can have issues 2Try a different usb cable 3 Check you computer for integrity issues win 8, 10, 11 Use sfc/scannow in a cmd shell Good luck and thanks for the review
It worked exactly as shown from your screen and explanations! I just paused to the video and crossed my fingers several times and even I got the update to go through! Hoping this fixes the Error 16/17 I was getting. Thank you!
Happy to help fingers crossed it fixes your error. Am going to do some other videos for the starsence auto align, gps Module, Wi-Fi dongle, and star pointer pro. Thanks for the reply
Good afternoon from Madrid, Spain. Two weeks ago in a public astronomical observation the mount failed me with the error you mention. Then at home it has never appeared to me in this time. Has it been fixed after updating? I am trying to update but the computer does not recognize the type of USB device, I don't know what to do anymore. Thank you
@@los.barneys.oficial try these Use a different USB port sometime will not work on usb3 Turn your scope on 2 minuets before attaching to a computer Check the com port number in CFM and the device manager Do a Siam command prompt as administrator and type in as below sfc/scannow This will check windows integrity and fix any corrupted files ( restart the computer once done.
Great stuff, following along nicely till I tried to find the exe. JAVA files! I’m using an iMac so any thoughts on how I find them? Thanks for any help Poe
Thanks for reply I’ve located the exe files now but not the properties window that you brought up to change the permissions! If I open one of the exe files it takes me into terminal window so can’t just alter the compatibility options ahhh very frustrating
Am sorry I don’t know mac systems enough to help you. I would look on the internet and see if you can find how to give a exe admin right, or contact celestron
if you have CFM saved in some weird folder named like "!! Astro !!" like me.. it does not like this folder name.. no special characters like exclamation marks in the folder name..
For me the problem started where your video ends, namely when I clicked on the update button below. The warning message “nexstar+ did not update successfully” was displayed. At some point I remembered that I had blocked internet access for the computer on the telescope. However, the installer didn't point this out to me. It made me think that he had downloaded some files for the update, but that couldn't be the case. After I enabled internet access, the step of downloading the updates took significantly longer than before. 😁 Afterwards, the installation program at least updated the hand controller during the update process, but failed when updating the motor controller. I then had to do the update a second time and selected that it was an Alt-Az mount. Afterwards, many more files were downloaded and installed and only then did the motor-controllers work. This is terrible software.
@@roughdragon4013 I would be happy if the software at least didn't give false facts during runtime or is it targeted at Millennials? 😁 But of course there is also a lot of room for improvement in terms of usability, considering that it is a consumer product. The thing about the separately required Java installation, for example, bothers me the least.
sorry for some reason your enquirery has litteraly just come through. if you have solved it great if not try the conection on a diffrent usb port i belive usb3 can be an issue. still not working. check your system integraty it may be a corrupt system file open a windows CMD with administation right and type exactly as shown sfc/scannow let it get on with it. if its win 8, 8.1, 10, or 11 it will find and repair any file found.
Everything worked as you described but after specifying the correct port the telescope was still unable to be found. I decided to try every 5 pin mini b cable I had lying around before trying anything else. The fourth one did the trick. Anyone following this guide who still has trouble by the end, try another cable. I remember having those issues way back when the 5 pin mini connection was cutting edge. Thank you for the fix, from the USA in July 2023.
Thanks for the info I may do a add on video
The best explanation in youtube I've found for installing CFM fixing the java configuration .thank you friend
Thanks for this video. This literally should NOT be this difficult. Celestron certainly F'd up this process. This should have been an easy plug and update..boom, done! Without this video, I wouldn't have a clue how to do this.
Happy to help out. It’s strange how the video is still relevant. I agree you would think that celestron would have done it fully executable without secondary software and having to change settings by know.
I know right? Seriously I am struggling even after this video getting my telescope to update. I’m actually quite ashamed of myself because of that. I have been building my own PCs for about 20 years, which really has nothing to do with learning the operating system, but at the same time it does make you feel ashamed of yourself to have this kind of trouble getting something as simple as a firmware manager to work with a $3000 telescope. I don’t think the programmers at Celestron understand their customers. I am shocked that they have not squared away the CFM, and made it more user-friendly. They really dropped the ball on this.
@@roughdragon4013 yeah if it wasn’t for your video, a lot of us would be SOL! Especially those of us who keep buying their peripherals
! What I love about my brothers from across the pond you guys always do such a thorough job of explaining things , without any of the ego that you’re find in the videos on the same subject from your US counterparts.
That’s why I always try to find how to videos on complex subjects like this one from people like you.
There is truly nothing worse than watching a video on a very aggravating subject like the CFM manager, and having some punk kid talking down to you making you feel inferior. You certainly don’t do that, and for that you have my respect and I’m sure a lot of people that have watched your video feel the same way.
You never make us feel stupid and I appreciate that my friend.
You might spot from my pic I'm wearing HD25,s industry standard headphones for Television / Film Location Sound recording as I've been in the TV industry for over 25 yrs.... and Yup your V/O audio sucks and sounds as if you used a pillow for a microphone. However your knowledge of getting Java to work is exceptional with this dinosaur piece of software from Celestron and I am super grateful, as I can't seem to detect my fancy new Starsense Camera on it's local network and unfortunately my last hope is a firmware update. Wish me luck , another wish is I Wish I had never gone down the proprietary Celestron rabbit hole. Cheers Kris
If your still having issues try the following
1 different usb port preff usb 2 as usb 3can have issues
2Try a different usb cable
3 Check you computer for integrity issues win 8, 10, 11
Use sfc/scannow in a cmd shell
Good luck and thanks for the review
Outstanding!
Completely solved my problem with the CFM not being able to run.
Much appreciation Rough Dragon!
Thanks for the positive reply. Glad it worked for you
It worked exactly as shown from your screen and explanations! I just paused to the video and crossed my fingers several times and even I got the update to go through! Hoping this fixes the Error 16/17 I was getting. Thank you!
Happy to help fingers crossed it fixes your error. Am going to do some other videos for the starsence auto align, gps Module, Wi-Fi dongle, and star pointer pro. Thanks for the reply
Good afternoon from Madrid, Spain. Two weeks ago in a public astronomical observation the mount failed me with the error you mention. Then at home it has never appeared to me in this time. Has it been fixed after updating? I am trying to update but the computer does not recognize the type of USB device, I don't know what to do anymore. Thank you
@@los.barneys.oficial try these
Use a different USB port sometime will not work on usb3
Turn your scope on 2 minuets before attaching to a computer
Check the com port number in CFM and the device manager
Do a Siam command prompt as administrator and type in as below
sfc/scannow
This will check windows integrity and fix any corrupted files ( restart the computer once done.
Dism
Great video and thanks for producing it! You described exactly the problem I had and the correct solution to fix it. Windows 10 Update 2004 BTW.
Glad it helped!
best explanation of updating the handset ive seen, thanks for sharing it was very helpfull
Glad you liked it
Great video. Thanks for your time creating it, I solved my doubts . Regards from mexico city February 2023
Great instructions. Saved me a lot of time. Thanks a lot!
Very helpful, Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Very everything is clearly shown.
Brilliant thank you.
Very Good, almost perfect but i finally got it updated!
Great!
You can also upgrade via a wifi dongle as well.
Yes I am aware and have after several attempts successfully done this in the past.
Thanks for the comment 😊
do you have any idea what ' boot start ' means when trying to set up the handset ?
Great stuff, following along nicely till I tried to find the exe. JAVA files! I’m using an iMac so any thoughts on how I find them?
Thanks for any help
Poe
I know on windows if you click the tab that displays the file it will show them in ascending or descending order.
Failing that do a file search,
Update on windows is that it’s the javacpl exe only that need admin rights for it to work. Unsure if it’s the same on Mac. Hope this helps
Thanks for reply I’ve located the exe files now but not the properties window that you brought up to change the permissions! If I open one of the exe files it takes me into terminal window so can’t just alter the compatibility options ahhh very frustrating
Am sorry I don’t know mac systems enough to help you. I would look on the internet and see if you can find how to give a exe admin right, or contact celestron
if you have CFM saved in some weird folder named like "!! Astro !!" like me.. it does not like this folder name.. no special characters like exclamation marks in the folder name..
For me the problem started where your video ends, namely when I clicked on the update button below. The warning message “nexstar+ did not update successfully” was displayed. At some point I remembered that I had blocked internet access for the computer on the telescope. However, the installer didn't point this out to me. It made me think that he had downloaded some files for the update, but that couldn't be the case. After I enabled internet access, the step of downloading the updates took significantly longer than before. 😁 Afterwards, the installation program at least updated the hand controller during the update process, but failed when updating the motor controller. I then had to do the update a second time and selected that it was an Alt-Az mount. Afterwards, many more files were downloaded and installed and only then did the motor-controllers work.
This is terrible software.
I agree the software should basically be install and work it’s about time it was sorted
@@roughdragon4013 I would be happy if the software at least didn't give false facts during runtime or is it targeted at Millennials? 😁
But of course there is also a lot of room for improvement in terms of usability, considering that it is a consumer product. The thing about the separately required Java installation, for example, bothers me the least.
When I connect my USB to update the telescope,it appears as other devices,not in the ports section.Please help
sorry for some reason your enquirery has litteraly just come through. if you have solved it great if not try the conection on a diffrent usb port i belive usb3 can be an issue. still not working. check your system integraty it may be a corrupt system file open a windows CMD with administation right and type exactly as shown sfc/scannow let it get on with it. if its win 8, 8.1, 10, or 11 it will find and repair any file found.
i now this is a little late but try typing sfc/scannow in a cmd shell and see if your system integrity is ok.
Celestron must have had dozens of staff assigned to making this as difficult as possible.
Honestly. Just effing riduculous.
I agree. This is about as difficult as it could get. I wouldnt have a clue how to do this without this video, and it's still not easy.
It says error every time I open with Java please help
Th3 Challenger what the error saying
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