Gp2x Startup - Screen Bleeding

[Peteb32x]

Just got my GP2x, working well...then I upgraded to 1.4 firmware...still working ok for a couple days, and now I'm showing a couple friend the unit, and the thing doesn't want to boot. I don't have an SD card in it or anything...

I startup and it sometimes sits at a vertical rainbow pattern screen, other times it shows that vertical pattern, then goes into the GP2x startup splashscreen, then the green loading screen... and it looks like the letters are bleeding...then gets worse..or I see three large horizontal bars going through it like I'm tuning in some UHF station or something..and it locks right there. Or, I can turn it off and on and it works just fine...

Any idea? I've only used the thing about 3 hours total so far...

Pete

 

[Guyfawkes]

change the batteries

 

[Mudi]

Yup, failure to boot and bleeding letters is definitely batteries. 3 hours on a battery charge is decent though.

 

[jaesond]

My 2500mAh rechargeables gave me about 4 hours of total play time, so that's about right.

I kinda freaked out when my batteries died. I was listening to music, screen off, then it just cut off. I start it up, hear this buzzing noise, it sits at the rainbow pattern, and I started freaking out because I thought I broke it.

Quick swap of batteries fixed that easily. I suggest investing in rechargeables. 4 of them and a charger for $20 from Walgreens work out well. Go for the highest mAh you can get.

 

[Rayek]

I will have to say that the GP2X has the best 'Your batteries are dead' notifications, they're so pretty Except when you forgot to savestate in Sonic 3 and Knucks, then it's just horror.

 

[Peteb32x]

Thanks everyone...

Sort of freaked me out, as I'm doing the usual "geeky show-and-telll" with the GP2x at work and one minute we're playing a game, next minute it's going bonkers and I start answering questions about warranty support!

Didn't firmware 1.4.0 activate the battery level indicator?

Pete

 

[k3nn]

In theory it did, but it only works sometimes..say when you're watching a video with a PSU...definitely not at useless times like when you're playing a game and need to save before your batteries die.
</sarcasm>

 

[subin]

In theory it did, but it only works sometimes..say when you're watching a video with a PSU...definitely not at useless times like when you're playing a game and need to save before your batteries die.
</sarcasm>

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apparently the battery indicator actually goes on when the gp2x is decoding movies. go figure.

 

[Shikaku]

I think it only goes off in GPH software (i.e, menu, Mplayer, etc.)

 

[fishybawb]

It seems to work for me, if a little randomly. Came on about 3 minutes before it died using ScummVM, about 10 minutes before on DrMD and less than a minute with Handy2x. All at stock speeds