AD5M

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AD5M

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Anyone still holding out on orca for now

I switched to Orca Slicer 2.3.2 and rolled back my AD5M Pro to an older firmware. Things are going mostly well since I did that. Not really planning to upgrade to the latest of anything from FlashForge for a while.

Capn_T_Driver in r/FlashForge

April 25, 2026 12:18 AM

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Sell me on Klipper

Way better method of monitoring your printer remotely than Flashforges awful app. Better control over just about every aspect of your printer. Bed mesh function that allows you to make sure your bed is physically level, which makes the auto-level way more accurate and prints come out better. Select

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wrenchandrepeat in r/FlashForge

October 31, 2025 11:14 PM

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Does my printer's machine start print code explain why my startup takes almost 10 minutes?

FlashForge AD5M? Mine does that too. Started after an update a few months ago. It’s annoying as hell.

Thatsteveguy77 in r/OrcaSlicer

May 18, 2026 1:17 PM

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Connection issues

I can only speak to the AD5X personally, but- This is the disadvantage of having a printer tied to cloud-based servers. If the servers have issues, you can’t print. Solutions: -Switch to LAN-Only mode. You aren’t reliant on their servers, but you will lose ability to remotely monitor via their apps.

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SunX99 in r/FlashForge

December 22, 2025 2:58 AM

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Firmware release notes

I've had the AD5M Pro for a few months now and have had great luck with it until this recent FW upgrade to 3.2.7. Ever since this upgrade rolled out, I have guaranteed network connection failures to the printer on the first "print plate" attempt. It sometimes takes as many as 3 or 4 attempts to get

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crashhelmet in r/FlashForge

January 2, 2026 8:24 PM

2

Did they just break online connectivity yesterday and release new firmware and software today?

I reached out to FF Support looking for some announcement or additional details on the new software and firmware releases. I asked to receive the update files, or be in on the beta group, and explained some users were in a broken state because only one of their devices/softwares updated. The respons

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SunX99 in r/FlashForge

January 20, 2026 6:48 PM

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FlashForge Rep says Orca Slicer is "like a third-party software.

ZMOD is the only one I know of for the AD5X... For the AD5M there is Forge-X? Personally I'm running ZMOD on my AD5X - can't recommend it enough! Flashing that is the very first thing that everyone should do - kinda like using Edge to download Firefox! lol.

sad_cosmic_joke in r/FlashForge

October 13, 2025 8:40 PM

2

Zmod or forge-x?

You don't need the ssh access unless you intend to go back to stock and Forge-X uninstall nuked your AD5M json file (it did for mine) which I believe is a rare side effect of the removal process. The screen loss is just some of the stock functions but you can control literally everything from a web

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Fitness_in_yo-Mouf in r/FlashForge

October 26, 2025 5:00 PM

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I don’t want to ruin Christmas morning.

My AD5M worked essentially out of the box. It printed its little cube, and I did the bed leveling on the first print with Orca-Flashforge, and all was well. Hopefully yours will work as flawlessly. The only thing I would do is figure out the firmware version. I understand the latest firmware sucks,

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Neriya in r/FlashForge

December 3, 2025 3:01 AM

2

Am i the one who only thinks?

Unfortunately, as of now, you won't find much for video on the issue. But it is fairly straight forward. The Flashforge site should have the firmware files you can download, if they don't GitHub most likely will. You'll want the . tgz or . bin file also look for a factory reset (which will be the ea

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Any_Frosting_3755 in r/FlashForge

May 5, 2026 4:03 PM

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