Hello people,
I've successfully updated my GP2X to v2.0 firmware and thought I should add my info...
Here's what happened...
All operations on the SD card were performed using a USB2.0 card reader plugged into
a USB2.0 hub, which was in turn plugged into a USB2.0 port on a PC running WinXP Pro.
1) I borrowed a 512MB San Disk SD card from a colleague and wiped it clean using Gadget's
utility (v1.3).
2) I wrote the image he created to the card.
3) Put the newly written to card into the GP2X, switched on while holding start and select and.... nothing.
It didnt work. I tried seveal times, but this didnt work.
4) I put the card back into the card reader, and formatted the card in file explorer in WinXP.
I made sure it was FAT32. I did this abourt 4 or 5 times. I don't know if it made any difference,
but I though I would format it a few times to make sure.
5) I unzipped the firmware that i'd downoaded from www.gp32x.de (and as found on gamepark
holdings site) to my hard disk.
6) I copied ALL the files across to the SD card.
7) I locked the SD card making it read only. ( I think this caused a problem - see step (9)).
8) Put the card back into the gp2x, switched on while holding stat and select, and the updating
firmware screen appeared.
9) The updating firmware screen appeared for about 3 secs, then it changed to the green
loading linux screen (which now had firmware 2.0 written on it). This screen then stayed there
for what seemed like ages - something had gone wrong.
I then thought that maybe this stage of the update had got confused - having noticed on previous
upgrade attempts that some of the files were deleted from the card, I thought that maybe the
non-writable state of the card was the problem.
10) I switched off the GP2X (while that green screen was still hanging there) and took
the card out.
11) I checked that all the files from the original zip were still present on the card (they were).
12) Unlocked the sd card so that it was writable.
13) Put the card back in the GP2X, switched on while holding the start and slect button.
This time, the upgrading firmware screen appeared and stayed there for about 30 secs, as described
n the GPH website. Following this, the whole upgrade proceedure continued as described on their site.
It took a few minutes, but everything was fine.
So... my conclusion is.. there's a card incompatability issue.
Good luck.