Please Help!

[TyBO123]

I just got a GP2X and it's been sitting on the loading screen forever... do I turn it off or will that brick it??

PLEASE HELP! I'm having a PANIC ATTACK!

 

[Geevowitz]

Turn it off and turn it back on again, and if that doesn't work try turning it on with the sd card out of it.

 

[TelcoLou]

Turn it off, take out the SD card and see what happens ...

(moving to the help section)

 

[Sonistar]

LOL thank god im not the worst n00b on these forums

 

[Radek]

I just got a GP2X and it's been sitting on the loading screen forever... do I turn it off or will that brick it??

PLEASE HELP! I'm having a PANIC ATTACK!

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What loading screen - the green one? If it's so then situation isn't that bad. In 99% cases the filesystem got corrupt and you can fix it by yourself. Look here for more info.

If it stopped at the "black screen" then it's something wrong with bootloader probably. It's still good to try to unbrick it with new filesystem but eventually you will have to get help from someone else (unless you are similiar with JTAG interface of course).

 

[TyBO123]

LOL thank god im not the worst n00b on these forums

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Heh... what's THAT supposed to mean??

Anyway, thanks for the help everyone. I just noticed this thread was moved here. I got a little scared, probably because I had literally just taken my machine out of the box, and I was afraid it was already bricked.

I fixed the problem by (as you all suggested) turning the machine Off then back On again. Horay

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

*slaps head*

 

[virusx]

I'm having a PANIC ATTACK!

... Something like this ?!

 

[TelcoLou]

I'm having a PANIC ATTACK!

... Something like this ?!

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* Slaps virusx for stealing my super-cool-for-any-occasion Brando screenshot *

 

[virusx]

I thought it was the board official's one

 

[FluffyPanda]

Did you get it working then?

Oh, and for future reference, a descrpitive title is always nice when you atart a thread. Something like "gp2x hanging at my first boot. Safe to turn off?" would have been good.

Enjoy your stay, your new friend will probably scare you a few more times yet

 

[Trashman]

Glad to see the standard IT Helpdesk answer solves yet another problem.

'Have you tried turning it off then back on?'

lol

 

[nickspoon]

"Hello? IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

And actually, I was thinking of this kind of panic attack:

 

[Sonistar]

haha amazing ^ (gif saved for future panic attacks)

 

[aapje89]

"Hello? IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

And actually, I was thinking of this kind of panic attack:

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lolz

and TyBO123, dont mind sonistar, he cant help it

 

[Sonistar]

yeah im GRADUALLLLLY learning how to actually USE a forum ^-^

 

[aapje89]

well thats better than nothing

 

[Sonistar]

wow i AM geting better, my last release of "inside the gp2x" submitted without any problems !! ^-^ (or telcolou shouting at me for doing sumat wrong )