Unable To Upgrade Firmware

[norm]

Got my Caanoo about three hours ago and thought the best thing to do first is to upgrade from 1.0.1 to 1.5.0.

So I downloaded the 1.5.0 firmware, extracted the contents to the root of my 2GB SD card, inserted it into my caanoo, held down R and powered it on. The GPH logo displays on the screen for about 15 seconds and then I get a blank screen, so I wait (still holding R) and wait and nothing.

Eventually I gave up and powered it off. turned back on and its working normally.

I tried several times trying to upgrade to 1.5.0 and 1.0.6 but the same result every time.

Any suggestions on what I should do/try or what I'm doing wrong. :S

Thanks.

 

[crow_riot]

you could try reformatting your SD card on WINDOWS with FAT filesystem.

put ALL the files onto your SD card that come withe the firmware, IIRC there are some misleading informations around what files to put on and what not, just copy all of them.

then try again.

if it doesnt work, get another SD card, this also helped some others.

 

[norm]

Thanks for the reply, I shall try when I can get access to a Windows machine.

 

[norm]

After formatting with a Windows machine all went smoothly.

How exactly does formatting with Windows and Linux differ? :S
Surely FAT32 is FAT32?

 

[crow_riot]

well i have no idea, i always thought a filesystem would be a filesystem, too.

but good to hear it worked that way!