david_etherton
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- Oct 6, 2008
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Okay, yes, I'm a moron. I was on the fence about ordering a Pandora, since I bought a GP2X several years ago when it first came out and never really did much with it. Much of that is because I really hated the joystick and found it difficult to use.
So I decided I should get it running again with the latest firmware before making my final decision.
After making sure its 2.0.0 firmware was running fine, I put the 4.0.1 patch onto a 16M SD card, booted it up, and watched it immediately start applying a patch and get stuck in a weird loop where it claimed to be trying a USB connection and some other status screen.
After a few minutes of this, I cycled power. I got the black screen (UBoot) then the green 2.0.0 kernel loading screen, and it stays stuck on that forever.
I quickly figured out what I did wrong -- I'd installed the 4.0.1 patch WITHOUT properly upgrading to the full 4.0.0 first. Dumbass.
Any idea how I can recover from this? I googled and found some old threads and websites on the topic, but they all seemed from the pre-2.0 days, and nothing I tried would work.
I've tried flashing to 4.0 and 2.0 again, but it seems like it won't read the flash card or something. I don't have any magic TTY cables so it's hard to tell what's going on here (I really hope Pandora lets you see what's going on under the hood without special cables).
[And yes, I did pre-order a Pandora after all]
Thanks in advance,
-Dave
So I decided I should get it running again with the latest firmware before making my final decision.
After making sure its 2.0.0 firmware was running fine, I put the 4.0.1 patch onto a 16M SD card, booted it up, and watched it immediately start applying a patch and get stuck in a weird loop where it claimed to be trying a USB connection and some other status screen.
After a few minutes of this, I cycled power. I got the black screen (UBoot) then the green 2.0.0 kernel loading screen, and it stays stuck on that forever.
I quickly figured out what I did wrong -- I'd installed the 4.0.1 patch WITHOUT properly upgrading to the full 4.0.0 first. Dumbass.
Any idea how I can recover from this? I googled and found some old threads and websites on the topic, but they all seemed from the pre-2.0 days, and nothing I tried would work.
I've tried flashing to 4.0 and 2.0 again, but it seems like it won't read the flash card or something. I don't have any magic TTY cables so it's hard to tell what's going on here (I really hope Pandora lets you see what's going on under the hood without special cables).
[And yes, I did pre-order a Pandora after all]
Thanks in advance,
-Dave
