Firmware Upgrade Compatible Cards And Faq

[fomit]

a little off topic, but are these just issues with upgrading firmware? I just bought a 2gb SD card and want to use it with my gp2x when it comes. I have some smaller sd cards around that I can use to flash firmware if there are issues flashing with the 2 gig card. I haven't seen anyone talk about using a 2gig card for general use, and was wondering if it's because they aren't supported yet?

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From everything I've read it looks like those with 2GB SD cards are out of luck until GPH updates firmware to support them. I did see a post in another thread from someone saying that they succesfully flashed their firmware from a 2GB SD card.

edit: Post #53 in an earlier thread about firmware updating speaks of success flashing with a 2GB card.

 

[iignotus]

Kodak 64mb worked fine.

 

[Araneidae]

Well, I just tried with a PNY 1GB card. The GP2X seems to see the card ok, but following the upgrade procedure (for the 12/Nov patch, gp2xkernel.img) does the following:

• The gp2xkernel.img file is deleted from the flash
• The kernel is not upgraded.

Info tells me I'm running VERSION 1.0, MODEL GP2X - F100, S/N 2005.11.14 - GP2XV100 - 00000246.

Now what?

Grrrrrrr :huh: :angry:

 

[iignotus]

Well, I just tried with a PNY 1GB card. The GP2X seems to see the card ok, but following the upgrade procedure (for the 12/Nov patch, gp2xkernel.img) does the following:

• The gp2xkernel.img file is deleted from the flash
  
• The kernel is not upgraded.
  

Info tells me I'm running VERSION 1.0, MODEL GP2X - F100, S/N 2005.11.14 - GP2XV100 - 00000246.

Now what?

Grrrrrrr :huh: :angry:

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You didn't format it correctly. You need to make it FAT32.

 

[trooper]

Upgraded successfully with a kingmax (Kingston) 512MB mini SD card formatted to FAT32 in a convertor.

Trooper

 

[Araneidae]

You didn't format it correctly. You need to make it FAT32.

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Do you know how to do that under OSX?

 

[Cyclops]

/me breaks down in tears

 

[mosschops]

All working with a Hypertec 512mb though the not working list states otherwise

 

[triton]

well i tried to do the firmware with a toshiba 512mb card, formatted in winxp in FAT32 and FAT and it didnt work either time and im slightly pissed off. i dont want to go out and buy another freakin SD card just to flash it

 

[sbt]

No name 1Gb card from Aria (UK), fomatted FAT32 - flashed OK for me.

 

[lucoxade]

How are people formatting their cards? What operating system are you using?

Do you use WinXP/2000/98 ? fdisk/cfdisk/Disk Utility/Windows built in formatter?

Do you have a card reader built in, multi card reader or single card adapter?

If you successfully got the firmware to flash please post as much information as possible including production date/serial number people!

There must be a pattern...

 

[sbt]

Win Xp SP2
Shuttle X - Internal multi Card reader
My Computer / right click on drive - clicked on format FAT32
copied .img file across - switched on - Firmware Upgrade came on - it ran through, blanked the screen and then entered the menu.

GP2X - 18/11/2005 GP2XV102 00000642

 

[Araneidae]

Well, I tried formatting my card as "MSDOS" format using the OSX Disk Utility and a card reader ... and now my USB connection is lost again. The contents of the card are visible in the GP2X explorer, so it's a working format, but it's evidently not good enough either for updating the firmware or for access over USB.

 

[wiggythebrave]

As I am using windows 98se with a card reader, when I right click on the drive the only option in the menu to FORMAT then it formats to FAT not FAT32.

Does anyone know how I can get round this? Sorry for asking such a basic question.




EDIT:Typo

 

[sanjuro]

You should all try to flash your firmware using a DC adaptor it works everytime for me (4 units flashed) i use the one from Argos http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9828915.htm


hope this helps

 

[triton]

i fail to see how a DC adapter would help us when our SD cards dont work for updating.

 

[iignotus]

Hmm... a plug for a plug...

 

[sanjuro]

All four units failed to update from batteries so what have you got to lose it could be a power issue some SD cards may need slightly more power

 

[Araneidae]

I'm pretty confident it's not power, though I wouldn't try the upgrade without fresh batteries. The GP2X is very sensitive about SD format: the problem seems to be discovering precisely what it's looking for, and how to give it that on every platform we have (Linux, WXP, WSE, OSX).

 

[triton]

you have a point i suppose, so they didnt work before but did after huh? odd