The Reason There Is No Full Firmware Update
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WarmFluffyUK
The Big Wad Bolf.
I'm trying this on my bricked Wiz now.
skeezix
Internal Development
I had to run it in twice, but it worked second time. (First time only the boot loader changed). Works well enough (though with the usual USB not working, etc. Coudl be BoB?)
jeff
jeff
DJWillis
Random GP32/GP2X/Wiz & Pandora Moocher
Same for me, after 2 runs (1st seemed to work but it panicked at the end of the cat of the massive vfat virtual partition that they seem to write straight to a chunk of NAND :blink
it now seems my pre-release Wiz is happily running all of the 1.0 firmware not some hacked up halfway house.
That said, it's interesting that the upgrade screens are for the Vocamaster hardware (the so called F300 GP2X) not the Wiz. I still find it odd that GPH are basically wrapping the same hardware into 2 form factors but I guess they have there reasons. I'll have to get my hands on an F300 one of these days .
it now seems my pre-release Wiz is happily running all of the 1.0 firmware not some hacked up halfway house.That said, it's interesting that the upgrade screens are for the Vocamaster hardware (the so called F300 GP2X) not the Wiz. I still find it odd that GPH are basically wrapping the same hardware into 2 form factors but I guess they have there reasons
. I'll have to get my hands on an F300 one of these days .
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rx_shorty
Member
Also worked for me
Thanks ED
Thanks ED
notaz
Certified Guru
Worked for me too.
Yeah, what were they thinking with that vfat partition? It won't be long until we see reports of dead NAND user partitions.
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notaz posted on May 27 2009 at 11:13 AM said:
Thank you for this! it allowed me to downgrade my wiz back to 1.000 from 1.01 ...101 has terrible screen tearing, I can live without better video for now
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Squidge
Certified Guru
If by better video you just mean the video player, then you should be able to copy the video player from the new firmware and dump it into the 1.00 firmware. As far as I'm aware, the video and flash apps are a single file in /usr/gp2x.
Yes, that's correct.
"TCPMP.gpe" is the video player, "EmflashPlayer.gpe" the Flash application.
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rx_shorty
Member
Well this doesn't really apply to you.
We have prototypes with firmwares less then the 1.00 version you have.
You could easily upgrade tot 1.01 without problems.
We have prototypes with firmwares less then the 1.00 version you have.
You could easily upgrade tot 1.01 without problems.
I upgraded to 1.01 and i have to say the screen tearing was a hell of alot worse. I know some have said its in the mind, but when using picodrive after the upgrade the tearing was pretty constant. Ive downgraded again and it's still there but it's not half as bad as the new firmware.
I can't confirm this, but I'm not using PicoDrive. I think 1.0.1 is the best choice and recommend the update...
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sam fisher
Well-Known Member
I don't know why the tearing would be worse... I think maybe it is just in peoples minds?
slaanesh
Certified Guru
TCPMP is the video player? Wow, it was so good on the Zodiac too. Must have been the hardware assist module that made it perform great.
Is there source available for this on the Wiz?
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Exophase
Nothing good will ever come of Exophase.
It can be worse if they changed the refresh rate. I doubt everyone's just imagining it.
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sam fisher
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But why would they change it? I would imagine all they did was change the menu so it uses portrait mode.
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Exophase
Nothing good will ever come of Exophase.
They arbitrarily change things all the time. Why did they keep changing between portrait and landscape before release to begin with?
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Orkie posted some of the source code here.
But I doubt the source for the player is included...
Regards,
Stephan
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