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Didn't you learn from your last warning?. You came to an assumption about me as a person, based upon forums posts?!. That is crazily naive and closed-minded of you. Reported (again).

Uhmm what?

I'm so relieved that there are other lateral-thinking, logical people on this forum :) . This is an *extremely* stupid design, and I am wondering why people are defending the consoles SO much - it almost smells of fanboyism at its' worst extreme. And to create a computer with a bootloader that...

:D yeah, my mistake.

Oh of course - I intentionally tried to brick my Wiz... :rolleyes: I take it back... you're right. Yes it's great that I'm not smart enough to realise that the *CONSOLE* should verify existance of a replacement firmware image, before erasing its' current OS in flash, pre-emptively. Imagine...

I'll try to get a guide put together today. Thanks for the offer of help, but as I said, I've got all the info I need and I worked it out myself (apart from the resistors/boot pin locations which Claude helped with). I am an electronics engineer - soldering & hardware doesn't phase me, unlike a...

Is yours bricked?. I'll tell you how to fix it tomorrow! ;)

Hey!. Want a console that can automatically, seamlessly and painlessly BRICK itself without a second thought?. Buy a Wiz, and prepare for the stress caused by a company who couldn't design a wheel and get it right... you've been warned!. Fact.

Nightmare, and about TWO people know how to fix it... Seriously guys, boycott GPH until they make something worthwhile - this is a silly device which hasn't the sense to realise that my SD card *didn't* have the recovery firmware on it, BEFORE erasing the flash, in preparation to restore it to...

This console is very interesting, but *VERY* difficult to recover, should something go wrong (and it is TOO easy to make it go wrong!). GPH, I hold you accountable for the headaches that this console is causing me - goodness knows what I'd do if I *wasn't* a computer geek!!. Nightmarish!!

I managed to get u-boot working without flashing it to NAND :) - but I have NO idea what commands I need to use to restore my proper bootloader or OS - can you help?!. Also, how long does it take to write the bootloader back to NAND (option 4) seems to take AGES!!

I have a serial cable yes - you're very kind... so what do I do then? (once I have the files) :)

I started it up with serial connected... nothing!. I should never have rebooted it when it was at the U-boot prompt! :(

I just booted my Wiz (serial cable attached) and held down the right button, assuming the recovery firmware was on my SD card... but it wasn't. This is the readout I got from my terminal on the computer - looks worrying: U-Boot 1.1.6 (Jun 10 2009 - 18:05:46) U-Boot code: 03680000 -> 036B0AF0...

New info (I think :) ): The internal view of the GP2X "Wiz" ext connector. Pins 12 & 19 which are +5v in (loading) are shorted together internally, and pins 21 & 22 which are ground, are shorted together internally also. This allows us to free up two pins inside the standard supplied USB...

This *SO* doesn't work - I launched the latest gpe, modprobed okay, confirmed with dmesg... did ls /dev/ to confirm /dev/ttyUSB0 is there... opened kermit, set line to /dev/ttyUSB0 and connect... *FAIL*... just hangs there. Can you fix this please?.

Surely all the 5v DC inputs from the USB to the wiz (red) are connected together *inside* the console, so I can free up two of the three +5vdc pins which are strapped together here, and move the pins to the serial (com) RXD & TXD locations?. Also, does there NEED to be *two* ground pins, or can...

I am just curious - I have been examining various GNU/Linux-based router bootlogs, by connecting to the serial port on their PCBs. I love knowing what is going on inside my gadgets, hence my request here.

Very kind, thankyou! :)

Hi guys. Okay, making a simple request for all you great people - don't need pointing to any messy Wikis with back-to-front pin numbering etc, or having diagrams drawn in ASCII please - I simply wish to know which pins are serial RX, serial TX & GND?. Here is a nice clear photo of the connector...