How Old Is My Gp2x?

[project86]

My serial number and date is: 2005.11.09 - GP2XV003 - 00000095

Does his mean I have a really old one (relatively speaking of course)?

Could that be the reason my screen is so flickery? Also my battery life still seems very low, could an older unit increase the likelihood of a bad regulator?

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

does it say "first edition" at the top?

 

[project86]

yes, sorry. First Edition

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

So then it's a first edition

I have one too. You got it when it first came out, and it's part of the first batch, like mine.


I hope I cleared that part up, now ill leave it to the spec freaks here to answer the other questions

 

[nubie]

My serial number and date is: 2005.11.09 - GP2XV003 - 00000095

Does his mean I have a really old one (relatively speaking of course)?

Could that be the reason my screen is so flickery? Also my battery life still seems very low, could an older unit increase the likelihood of a bad regulator?

If it really is flickery then EvilDragon or any distributor can do the resistor mod to it and fix that.

Also you may have a bad regulator if you have some good charged 2,500mAh NiMH batteries that power a GBA with a snake light for more than 7 hours(my brother claims about 9 hours! a week of playing for him) but won't take your GP2X beyond an hour or two.

 

[Magnulus]

Are those last digits the actual number of the device in manufacturing? If so, then I guess they've sold about five thousand units, considering mine says this: 2006.06.02 - GP2XV127 - 00004961

Maybe the third bit is reset to zero with every revision, but I kind of doubt it. Five thousand already is not bad at all, considering the GP32 sold 30 000 in... what? Four years? Five?

 

[Yono]

Are those last digits the actual number of the device in manufacturing? If so, then I guess they've sold about five thousand units, considering mine says this: 2006.06.02 - GP2XV127 - 00004961

Maybe the third bit is reset to zero with every revision, but I kind of doubt it. Five thousand already is not bad at all, considering the GP32 sold 30 000 in... what? Four years? Five?

I think that 5k seems about right. Mine is 2006.06.09 - GP2XV127 - 00004975

 

[PSyMastR]

No No No. They sold more then 5000.

Thats 5000 units from the batch on 2006.06.09
Or 5000 units from the batch on 2006.06.02
etc...

The first part is the date of manufacturing. The second is the version number of the hardware (revisions, etc... I think, not 100% on this part) and the last is your number from that batch.

 

[jmetal88]

The first part is the date that particular 2x left the factory. The second part, however, it not the revision, but the run of manufacture. The third part is how far along the unit was within the run.

So

2006.06.09 - GP2XV127 - 00004975

means this GP2X left the factory on June 9th 2006, as a part of manufacture run #127 (which is actually run #28, as the runs started at 100 for some reason), and was GP2X # 4,975 within run 28.

 

[EvilDragon]

My serial number and date is: 2005.11.09 - GP2XV003 - 00000095

Does his mean I have a really old one (relatively speaking of course)?

Could that be the reason my screen is so flickery? Also my battery life still seems very low, could an older unit increase the likelihood of a bad regulator?

That's the first day gp2x were produced. So you could say it's old

 

[Magnulus]

Woah! So this means the GP2X has outsold the GP32 several times over?
ED? You got any comments on that?

 

[dsd28]

<snip>
as a part of manufacture run #127 (which is actually run #28, as the runs started at 100 for some reason), and was GP2X # 4,975 within run 28.
<snip>

The OPs GP2X seems to contradict that theory:

<snip>
My serial number and date is: 2005.11.09 - GP2XV003 - 00000095
<snip>

 

[Nuron_V]

YYYY.MM.DD - GP2XV*** - ########

I'm i right in thinking the *** is the factory installed firmware version? I've been meaning to check that as i have GP2XV101 - 00000001.

 

[Magnulus]

No, because my firmware is 2.0. Why would the software determine your unit's identity number?

 

[Nuron_V]

whats your number then?

 

[Magnulus]

mine says this: 2006.06.02 - GP2XV127 - 00004961

 

[PSyMastR]

whats your number then?

Its wrong, because look in this thread, 003, 006, etc...
The firmwares (to my knowledge):
Beta 1
Beta 2
1.0
1.01
(was there a 1.02 and 1.03?)
1.1
1.2
1.2.1
1.4
2.0

 

[jmetal88]

<snip>
as a part of manufacture run #127 (which is actually run #28, as the runs started at 100 for some reason), and was GP2X # 4,975 within run 28.
<snip>

The OPs GP2X seems to contradict that theory:

<snip>
My serial number and date is: 2005.11.09 - GP2XV003 - 00000095
<snip>

Then why does mine say

2005.11.18 - GP2XV102 - 00000494

When it is a first edition and one if the first 5,000 produced? Surely it didn't take 102 runs to make 5,000 GP2Xs. Perhaps the topic starter made a mistake?

EDIT: I see what you mean now. Perhaps the topic starter has one of the first 500 Korean-only units then? Maybe the GP2XV### meant something different on those?

 

[Drag]

I have: 2005.12.12 - GP2XV127 - 00001409
At some point, I want to trade mine in to get a newer version, but I dunno how I'll go about doing that.

On the sticker, it says "Model No: GP2X-F100"
THAT might be the firmware.

Also, I notice the flickering on the black-screen-of-death, but not anywhere else, because the flickering is extremely subtle and it doesn't bother me.

 

[PSyMastR]

I have: 2005.12.12 - GP2XV127 - 00001409
At some point, I want to trade mine in to get a newer version, but I dunno how I'll go about doing that.

On the sticker, it says "Model No: GP2X-F100"
THAT might be the firmware.

Also, I notice the flickering on the black-screen-of-death, but not anywhere else, because the flickering is extremely subtle and it doesn't bother me.

Wow, first of all, the GP2X-F100 is the model number (MKII's are GP2X-F100B) and second of all, you can "trade" it in. Jesus Christ. These forums are lowering my IQ.