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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Good news and bad newsRe: Good news and bad news
From: <ajf_at_midmaine.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:00:44 -0500 (EST) I urge you to contact newmp3technology to see what they can do for you. My experience with them (2 JBRs) has been most favorable. I share your pain about the $500 paperweight. They don't call it the bleeding edge for nothing. > ... > Now for the bad news: about 7 and a half hours after I got the unit back > from newmp3technology, it again began to exhibit hardware problems: > pressing > F1 caused it to hang, and I even got one amusing fault where the right > 4/5ths of the screen blanked and was replaced with "IllInstr" written > /upside-down/. Wanting to be sure that I'd controlled for all possible > causes, and having had it freshly serviced, I re-flashed the unit with the > original Archos firmware. The flashing hung on the programming screen, and > the firmware was erased but not re-written. > > So now I have hardware problems and a unit without any firmware at all. > (Actually, [IDC] Dragon says I must have the first /part/ of the Archos > firmware, given that both the red and the green leds come on.) I can't > boot, > and about all I can do is hold down "Off" for hardware reset. Yes, my > Archos > is now a $550 paper-weight. And this wasn't even the worst thing to happen > to me this week. > > So, I don't expect I'll be hanging out here much in the future. If anyone > wants to finish the extended battery life code, drop me a line. As far as > plans for a database, well, if you feel up to taking that on I can give > you > some ideas and some pointers to code. > > --Tom > > Received on 2003-12-18 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |