Updating Firmware?
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Oh boy - it DEFINATELY looks like a card issue...
Tried four different cards, only the fifth one (512MB SanDisk) did work.
Tried four different cards, only the fifth one (512MB SanDisk) did work.
64mb Lexar= failed
1gb Viking= failed
I don't have 5 cards to mess around with. This is a sorry situation. : (
1gb Viking= failed
I don't have 5 cards to mess around with. This is a sorry situation. : (
fomit
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I'm heading out this afternoon to buy a cheapo 128 MB SanDisk just for flashing seeing as I won't probably be able to flash it until I do.
Just please let this firmware improve my battery life!
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Just got my GP2X and am using a SanDisk 1GB SD card.
Updated firmware successfully after formatting SD as Fat32 and inserting it with .img file on it. No version change apparent but that's the way it's supposed to be. Installed stereo fix and second patch. Swapped out lame batteries with better ones.
Installed lib allegedly needed for games.
Can't run any games, solid black.
No Shanghai, no anything.
No USB connectivity to any XP machine I've tried on any port.
Updated firmware successfully after formatting SD as Fat32 and inserting it with .img file on it. No version change apparent but that's the way it's supposed to be. Installed stereo fix and second patch. Swapped out lame batteries with better ones.
Installed lib allegedly needed for games.
Can't run any games, solid black.
No Shanghai, no anything.
No USB connectivity to any XP machine I've tried on any port.
Vimacs
Don't be evil!
sounds like the sdl libs arent installed properly, try again.
http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,31,869
http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,31,869
garengarch
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success....
formatted fat32 with winxp;
copied over image file with card reader;
card 512mb sandisk.
formatted fat32 with winxp;
copied over image file with card reader;
card 512mb sandisk.
iignotus
The one and only
I used a Kodak card to do it, surprisingly.
Jarska333
What do you want?
I hope the cards you sell are compatible...
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Anybody fancy having a go at writing a procedure here, Upgrading Firmware, that actually works?
This card issue really sucks. I'm getting really pissed off at the half-baked state of the firmware: I can't even upgrade it? WTF :angry:
This card issue really sucks. I'm getting really pissed off at the half-baked state of the firmware: I can't even upgrade it? WTF :angry:
PSyMastR
\m/O__O\m/
Well, Ive got a Samsung 2 GB 150x. Did anyone test that brand of cards yet? I know 2 gb wont work, but hopefully soon.
daclassicgamingmaster
It Is Your Birthday.
go over to the photo place in town and get a 128 or whatever. that way you know when u get ur system u have a readable card and something to upgrade the firmware
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Pandakopanda
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I can't get it to work, using the 1gb Integral card I got from gbax. I am sure I've formatted the thing as FAT32, so it must either be a card issue or a card-reader issue. :angry:
I think the best thing to do now is go to the store tomorrow and see if I can buy a 128mb Sandisk card, since these seem to always work.
I think the best thing to do now is go to the store tomorrow and see if I can buy a 128mb Sandisk card, since these seem to always work.
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GPH really need to sort this one out. Buggy firmware is perfectly understandable with a first release, but broken firmware updates is not.
sixxie
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No joy here with an Integral 1GB either. Looks like I'll have to nip out and get a little Sandisk one from somewhere.
My GP2X now won't look at my card! I used the OSX command 'newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/disk1' to reformat it (as suggested by iignotus), and the card still works (OSX reads and writes it just fine), but the GP2X can't see it at all (and, of course, now refuses to connect over USB).
Sigh. Going backwards.
Sigh. Going backwards.
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neosalad
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i've got 2 SD cards cant get either to update the firmware either.
1 is viking 512 , the other is a viking 1GB
might have to "borrow" one from work and see if it will do the trick
neosalad
1 is viking 512 , the other is a viking 1GB
might have to "borrow" one from work
and see if it will do the trick neosalad
Pandakopanda
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I bought a Sandisk 1GB today, formatted it as fat32 and lo and behold, the firmware upgrading screen appeared... Yay!
Cannibal
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I bought a card reader and all was sorted, the USB support on the GP2X is very dodgy it says it's copied properly but in fact it hasn't, trust me. I couldn't get Quake to work at all copying the files directly over the USB connection either.
Now I have the card reader I just formatted the SD card and copied the img file onto it, verified on the GP2X it could see it then powered off then on, shortly after powering on the firmware update screen appeared. It was ALL down to the USB in the end.
You won't get it working transfering over USB to the GP2X, I tried at least 20 times
Cannibal.
Now I have the card reader I just formatted the SD card and copied the img file onto it, verified on the GP2X it could see it then powered off then on, shortly after powering on the firmware update screen appeared. It was ALL down to the USB in the end.
You won't get it working transfering over USB to the GP2X, I tried at least 20 times
Cannibal.