Okay, I postet a thread before but I think that this needs some investigation!!!
My GP2X wouldn't turn on with batteries and someone answered that it was the same with him but then he discovered that after waiting a while without plugging it to the wall, batteries would suddenly work. Now I took that advice and checked a few times... I left it over night, I tried this, I tried that...
Now today I took mine to school... where I plugged it in!
Now I am home again thinking "Hey, I might just play a little Commander Keen on my GP2X" and by coincidence I discover that my gp2x does turn on with batteries now!
This is really weird... why could this have happened? It was not unplugged for a whole night but only for like 7 hours or something. Might this be a problem with capacitors? Is it something related to the batteries that needed a little "notch" to work? I have heard that some batteries when charged to the maximum will not dispatch power to certain electronics... It is not related to a broken contact or loose soldering point because I shook the unit quite firmly... so the batteries are not loose either...
Any ideas? Anyone with the same problem? I think this was worth a new thread since I actually almost pissed my pants seeing my gp2x run on batteries... it was scary! Imagine you just buried your cat in the garden after it's been dead for like 6 weeks when you discover it walking around in the house the next morning... :blink:
My GP2X wouldn't turn on with batteries and someone answered that it was the same with him but then he discovered that after waiting a while without plugging it to the wall, batteries would suddenly work. Now I took that advice and checked a few times... I left it over night, I tried this, I tried that...
Now today I took mine to school... where I plugged it in!
Now I am home again thinking "Hey, I might just play a little Commander Keen on my GP2X" and by coincidence I discover that my gp2x does turn on with batteries now!
This is really weird... why could this have happened? It was not unplugged for a whole night but only for like 7 hours or something. Might this be a problem with capacitors? Is it something related to the batteries that needed a little "notch" to work? I have heard that some batteries when charged to the maximum will not dispatch power to certain electronics... It is not related to a broken contact or loose soldering point because I shook the unit quite firmly... so the batteries are not loose either...
Any ideas? Anyone with the same problem? I think this was worth a new thread since I actually almost pissed my pants seeing my gp2x run on batteries... it was scary! Imagine you just buried your cat in the garden after it's been dead for like 6 weeks when you discover it walking around in the house the next morning... :blink: