Pandora freeze issues


fritata

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I have a CC Pandora. It can overclock to 900 Mhz and runs fine on the latest firmware. Recently, I installed beta 5 firmware for Android. Android runs fine but I noticed some bugs. I can't drag icons on the desktop, nor do menus automatically open when using the nubs. Also, it crashes while playing the gpSP GBA emulator if I play for longer than 5 min. (not just an app crash, the whole system freezes).  Now it won't run for an extended period of time doing any task unless it is clocked at 500 Mhz. Even 700 Mhz crashes it when I use it for a while. Is this because I'm using the beta firmware?
 
Thanks for the help. Its gone past 800 and has been increasing for some time now. I may just have to switch to the normal firmware and live without Android. 
 
You need to run that for at least 3 hours to get a general idea what it can clock to... It will slowly go up until it fails and then creep down to a stable point.
 
You have to run it one complete week per OPP.

On the seven units i've tested, only one at a given OPP gave me the result within one or two days.
 
OPP is the overvolting level, a classic or rebirth Pandora can be set to 3,4 or 5.  Generally to be able to overclock past 800mhz it needs to be set to 4 or 5 (depends on Pandora). It's in cpu setting under max OPP settings or something like that..
 
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Hmm.  Mine overclocks to 928 Mhz. It must be something else causing the freeze issues.
 
I have a CC Pandora. It can overclock to 900 Mhz and runs fine on the latest firmware. Recently, I installed beta 5 firmware for Android. Android runs fine but I noticed some bugs. I can't drag icons on the desktop, nor do menus automatically open when using the nubs. Also, it crashes while playing the gpSP GBA emulator if I play for longer than 5 min. (not just an app crash, the whole system freezes).  Now it won't run for an extended period of time doing any task unless it is clocked at 500 Mhz. Even 700 Mhz crashes it when I use it for a while. Is this because I'm using the beta firmware?
When I used Android the last time I was on Zaxxon Beta, too. Android crashed while exiting and since then my Pandora did weird things _without starting Android_! I had two open (empty) pdf-viewers after a fresh boot and the Pandora kept crashing all the time while in standby mode. First I thought it was Warlock-bar, then I replaced the battery, then I thought the battery needed to be reseated. But since I updated to Zaxxon 1.52 everything is working perfectly again. So I strongly suggest you reflash your Pandora to get rid of your problems. BTW, I don't think that it matters if you reflash to beta or newest firmware concerning your problems but if you have to do it anyway you should flash 1.52 as notaz suggested.
 
Yes, you can run Android on the latest firmware. No need to downgrade.
 
I tried reflashing. The issue seems to be isolated now just to the gpSP app. Even if I play  on 500 Mhz on OPP3 it still crashes around 20 min.
 
I tried reflashing. The issue seems to be isolated now just to the gpSP app. Even if I play  on 500 Mhz on OPP3 it still crashes around 20 min.
Very unlikely that it solves your problem but may be worth trying: Do you have the latest version of gpSP installed (I see it's updated last on Oct 3, 2012)? Maybe it helps if you erase the gpSP folder in appdata (be careful, you will lose all your settings)?
 
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