I have blown tons of money on Ir Toys in the past month and every single one A) has shipped with old firmware, B) gets stuck in bootloader during an attempted firmware upgrade, C) is now a brick. Search the forums for "stuck in bootloader" or "U2IO flash erasing: FAILED." and you will see this issue has existed for over THREE YEARS and there is no solution. Many people have reported this problem, yet this is no fix, and the assholes at Seeed are still selling this garbage.
I have two IR Toys that I've attempted to update to v22. Both are stuck in bootloader and will not exit. I've shorted the PGC and PGD over and over again, before plugging the USB in, after plugging the USB in, nothing works. Have I just wasted a chunk of money on bricks?