Gp2X Wiz Internal Pictures

[MatthewQA]

Alright!

A common topic lately on the help section of the board has been issues with a ThinkGeek-sold GP2x Wiz. Many have been having issues with pocketSNES, and gPSP specifically. And I myself have had issues with a few other things, such as gMenu2x.

A few times, this has been questioned as a hardware issue, but of that, I have yet to be convinced. For this reason, I have pulled my own unit apart, and taken a few pictures. I'm hoping that someone who has a working pre-"ThinkGeek" Wiz, will be able to do the same, so we can at least do a minor comparison of the hardware.

I myself did a rather quick comparison to the Wiz provided in the D-Pad pivot mod, and didn't see anything drastically different, but I could be mistaken(and the pictures of the board itself in the D-Pad mod are not the clearest).

So here are my findings(album link [here]):

- On the side of the battery cavity, my Wiz is marked: GPX-GP2X-Wiz(B)
- The board itself is marked: GP2X-WIZ VER7.0(2009.06.02)

Those are the two primary observations I made. Considering this revision was released only a month after the Wiz itself was released, it seems unlikely that there are true issues with this board, unless production buffered the original waaaaaaaaaaaay out.

I am curious to know what changed in only a month's time, and why this unit is marked "(B)".

So now I would like to hear opinions of those who are a bit better rooted in Wiz's history, or someone who has not had the issues ThinkGeek purchasers had willing to pop their own system open and take a few pictures.

Also, if the pictures are not clear enough, let me know, I can try and take better ones without the flash and with a tripod. I may do so anyhow.

For those who missed it, the album is: [here]

 

[crow_riot]

notaz has made some screenshot of his device ... http://notaz.gp2x.de/hw.php

one question, did you guys ever tried to downgrad the firmware? did you check the firmware revision?

the newest released to public firmware is available in the archives, version 1.2.6 revision 359
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,42,488

it would be interesting what the thinkgeek wiz's have as a revision, i'd bet that it's different (higher). if so, then it's really something in the firmware and matter of GPH to fix.

 

[MatthewQA]

notaz has made some screenshot of his device ... http://notaz.gp2x.de/hw.php

Hmm. There are some differences, but I'm going to have to take better pictures of the front side.

one question, did you guys ever tried to downgrad the firmware? did you check the firmware revision?

the newest released to public firmware is available in the archives, version 1.2.6 revision 359
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,42,488

it would be interesting what the thinkgeek wiz's have as a revision, i'd bet that it's different (higher). if so, then it's really something in the firmware and matter of GPH to fix.

Yes, a few have tried have tried messing with firmware, I plan to as well, as soon as I can get a substantial SD card that I can use freely. They had no better results. I myself am running 1.2.6r359, one of the first things I checked.

 

[darklight1138]

Great job, Matt! It's stuff like this that will hopefully speed up any fixes. The Wiz is a great product and could be greater still.

 

[crazyfooinc]

That's odd, the WiZ I bought recently from ThinkGeek runs pocketsnes perfectly, although I have not tried gPSP

 

[Analog-X64]

Hi Everyone,

I just got my ThinkGeek GP32X Wiz and decided to join a board so I can use it to its fullest.

After reading this thread, I decided to try PocketSNES and sure enough it freezes.

Here is the details from my information screen.

Version v1.2.6
Firmware Linux 2.6.24 Revision: 359
S/N starts with date 2010.11.22