Gp2x Kernel Updater

[portcitypetino]

Okay guys my question is: do you have to have 1.0.1 installed, or can you upgrade from the original 1.0 to 1.1.0 with no need of 1.0.1???

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This was my first upgrade and it was from 1.0
I think it was writen for people who have not been able to upgrade due to SD card compatability problems.

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Okay great my next questions are: does this help the USB connection to your computer? Also, does it allow you to access and use the NAND memory now?

 

[slygamer]

If you read the other threads about the 1.1.0 update, yes it does help with USB connectivity, but no it does not allow you to access the NAND over USB.

 

[Minkoff]

Oops. I think I'm the first one to have been bricked by this. I was hasty and didn't run the write test (BIIIIIIIIIIIG mistake), and at 72% it said there was a NAND write error at block 16. When I turn on my unit, the GP2X (black bg) screen stays there forever.

So, am I all the way bricked, or no?

 

[nubie]

Oops. I think I'm the first one to have been bricked by this. I was hasty and didn't run the write test (BIIIIIIIIIIIG mistake), and at 72% it said there was a NAND write error at block 16. When I turn on my unit, the GP2X (black bg) screen stays there forever.

So, am I all the way bricked, or no?

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Your uboot is ok if you see a BG, now you need a good SD card to follow the unbricking guid by DJWillis.

http://www.distant-earth.com/gp2x/2005/11/...cked-gp2xs.html

if you see colored lines only that is a bricked unit

 

[zombie13]

Oops. I think I'm the first one to have been bricked by this. I was hasty and didn't run the write test (BIIIIIIIIIIIG mistake), and at 72% it said there was a NAND write error at block 16. When I turn on my unit, the GP2X (black bg) screen stays there forever.

So, am I all the way bricked, or no?

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Same here, but at 64% and the same block. Except I did run the test, which completed successfully. Thanks for bricking my GP2X, Robster. :angry:

EDIT: By the way, before anyone says it, I used fully-charged 2000mAh Uniross batteries.

 

[Hokutoy]

Thanks for bricking my GP2X, Robster. :angry:

You follow this process at your own risk. I will not accept responsibility for any damage to your GP2X arising from following this process. It IS possible that this process will make your GP2X unusable, and you must accept this risk before following the process.

<_<

 

[suj]

Thanks Robster...

Followed your instructions, and now have latest firmware.

 

[garengarch]

edit: temper tantrum over

 

[Quiest]

Oh god damn no!

NandWriteBlock 16 for me to. And the write test completed fine, too...
What the fuck, now I really have to buy a stupid compatible card to unbrick it
And a serial cable and a psu...

Stupid GPH should have produced a upgrader everyone can use, damn $§%&&§$%&!!!!!

 

[wahwah]

Worked fine for me, thanks robster

 

[zombie13]

Thanks for bricking my GP2X, Robster. :angry:

You follow this process at your own risk. I will not accept responsibility for any damage to your GP2X arising from following this process. It IS possible that this process will make your GP2X unusable, and you must accept this risk before following the process.

<_<

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And? That's supposed to help is it? I can read too, strangely enough. I'm not asking for anyone else to take responsibility. Am I asking him to fix my GP2X? NO. Just merely making my feelings known.

I would advise anyone else to stay away from this program, as three of us have bricked GP2Xs because of it.

 

[simpo]

If you had a failure, try booting anyway, but if it doesn't work, you will need to follow DJWillis' unbricking guide.

Any of the three tried this? or is it completely bricked?

 

[Iorgy77]

Worked fine here. Thanks very much Robster.

 

[Minkoff]

Well, the fact that other people are getting their units bricked despite having run the test makes me feel slightly less dumb, but... maybe people shouldn't do this until the problem is worked out?

Robster, I'm looking at you.

 

[zombie13]

If you had a failure, try booting anyway, but if it doesn't work, you will need to follow DJWillis' unbricking guide.

Any of the three tried this? or is it completely bricked?

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I didn't try the unbricking guide, because my SD cards didn't work for flashing the firmware - hence the reason I was trying Robster's updater.

EDIT: A 64MB SD card I ordered off eBay has just turned up this morning. Tried flashing the firmware. Doesn't fucking work of course. Didn't someone say that some GP2Xs are just faulty, and won't update the firmware from any SD card?

 

[Minkoff]

What's involved in "not working?"
Did you get to the update screen or not?

 

[Robster]

zombie13 and Minkoff: It's an unfortunate fact that when you can only test something in a limited way and then release it to a much wider audience, unforeseen things will happen. While I'm not apologising for "bricking" your GP2X's, I didn't intend for it to happen and I'm disappointed that it has.

The word "bricking" is used wrongly though. You have a kernel that doesn't boot, but you do still have a bootloader and it can be used to restore the kernel as long as you can find an SD card that will work. I hope you get it sorted soon.

I've modified the program (in the first post of this thread, now edited) to change the retry method and hopefully avoid this in future. Given that the number of failures is much lower than the number of successes (including many, many successful runs on my own GP2X), I still think that the code itself is reasonably good. Should people use it? Well that's not for me to say: I made the program so that I could upgrade, some other people wanted it, and most have had success with it.

As always, you take your own choices

 

[Minkoff]

Never mind, cleared up in #gp2xdev

 

[Tomato666]

Thanks Robster, I've been trying to upgrade mine for ages.

It worked fine here

 

[Quiest]

@Zombie: Don`t use 64mb cards for upgrades, the 64mb card compatibility is switched off half way through the upgrade, which would also result in a bricked unit.
I think I send mine back to ED, he said he offers de-bricking for low and maybe he can update mine to 1.1.0 then...