Hello,

I'm having trouble with 1.8" Colour LCD with Arduino. When I upload a program, say the 3D Cube demo (with Ver 33 added and SPI chosen), it works as expected. However, when I unplug and replug the device, it is stuck on the welcome screen. Resetting the Arduino doesn't fix the problem, but re-uploading the program does.

When I reupload the program, and rest the Arduino, it works fine too. So my thought is that when it's plugged in, there is some error on SPI?

Version 3.3 software

Thanks

 Did you connect the SS pin between Arduino and Display?

If you didn't use SS signal, the data on SPI port usually mis-alignment.

You can try add a delay at the beginning of sketch, and let Arduino start sending data after display done all initiation, eg. display welcome screen and COM config.

 Hi,

I'm using another data pin as /SS since I have several SPI devices. I believe when the board reboots, this pin is floating (because during reset it's an input). Could this be the problem? Maybe I need to pull up the /SS with resistor?

 This is not a big problem if you controlled the SS pin, please try to delay 300ms before sending data after powering up the module, the SPI port on the module is set up after about 200ms to avoid the pin floating from host controller.

 Hi,

My arduino board has a bootloader and I believe it is active for about 2 seconds on power up before the program starts (during these 2 seconds the /SS line will be likely high impedance). Will this be the cause of the problem?

 If the screen is frozen when power on, try to remove the cap under 10K resistor, this will accelerate the RST signal.