Sparkfun Electronics USB Explorer Manual page 13

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Recovery
If your XBee seems bricked, don't worry! You can most likely recover it. To
get to the recovery screen, click the Tools icon, and select XBee
Recovery.
Once again, you'll need to select your COM port, and you'll also need to
select the product family. This can be found on the bottom sticker of your
XBee. If you're using a series 1 module, the family should be XB24.
Beyond that you'll need to select a "Function Set" and "Firmware Version".
For both of those you should be safe selecting the top-most values in the
list.
Once you've made all of those selections, click Recover.
The recovery process may take a few minutes. You'll be prompted to reset
your XBee. If your Explorer has a reset button, simply press it when
prompted, otherwise see the "Reset" section below.
During recovery, if XCTU can find your XBee it will. It'll also update the
firmware, and set you back to the default settings. If you know what got
your XBee bricked in the first place...maybe don't do that again.
XBee's Not Communicating, Reset to Defaults
If no matter what changes you make to the config settings your XBee's just
won't communicate with each other, try resetting them both to the default
values.
In the config tab, click the "Load default firmware settings" icon –
(not sure how to describe that icon). Then click Yes to confirm that you
want to reset everything.
If you're presented with any red-backgrounded error notifications (like
below), first try to refresh the value, by clicking the green icon – .