ok this is totally frusterateing.
I just got my GP2x on saturday, I have been planning on modding the think to add some nifty hardware but seeing as how I was lacking sufficient hardware I decided to play with my new toy... in playing I made the original sin of formatting my nand... no big deal the OS was still fine, but I lost my nifty games that came with my system and I lost the cool help videos :huh:
so I decided to see if I could get them back... I downloaded 3.0.0 firmware kit and looked through the packaged and found the files that I needed to put back most of it, but FOOLISHLY rather than manually putting them where they belong via the USB, I took the lazy route and attempted to reflash the firmware from SD...
the update kicked off with a format. I had read this was going to take some time so I set it on my desk and proceeded dismantleing a gameboy micro (its funny what we do when we are bored) when I looked back at my gp2x the think has a black screen and thats it... I got nervous but I figured the think may take some time or have background things to do or some such nonsence so I waited and waited... its been well over an hour... screen's still back...
shortening up: I rebooted and I get the gp2x loading screen witch changes to the "starting" screen but then it goes black... bricked.
I found several articles about recovering my gp2x but none have been useful:
http://www.gpnewbie.com/gp2x/firmware.htm
http://www.distant-earth.com/gp2x/2005/11/...cked-gp2xs.html
I have no idea where to go from here, is this fixable or did I just waste $200 on a worthless peice of monkey poo? :angry:
I just got my GP2x on saturday, I have been planning on modding the think to add some nifty hardware but seeing as how I was lacking sufficient hardware I decided to play with my new toy... in playing I made the original sin of formatting my nand... no big deal the OS was still fine, but I lost my nifty games that came with my system and I lost the cool help videos :huh:
so I decided to see if I could get them back... I downloaded 3.0.0 firmware kit and looked through the packaged and found the files that I needed to put back most of it, but FOOLISHLY rather than manually putting them where they belong via the USB, I took the lazy route and attempted to reflash the firmware from SD...
the update kicked off with a format. I had read this was going to take some time so I set it on my desk and proceeded dismantleing a gameboy micro (its funny what we do when we are bored) when I looked back at my gp2x the think has a black screen and thats it... I got nervous but I figured the think may take some time or have background things to do or some such nonsence so I waited and waited... its been well over an hour... screen's still back...
shortening up: I rebooted and I get the gp2x loading screen witch changes to the "starting" screen but then it goes black... bricked.
I found several articles about recovering my gp2x but none have been useful:
http://www.gpnewbie.com/gp2x/firmware.htm
http://www.distant-earth.com/gp2x/2005/11/...cked-gp2xs.html
I have no idea where to go from here, is this fixable or did I just waste $200 on a worthless peice of monkey poo? :angry: