Dingo_aus
Member
I'm holding off buying one because I fear I'll brick it updating firmware.
I'm a tinkerer and know I will want to update the firmware every new release (can't not have those latest fixes!) but on that point, how easy is it to brick this thing?
I know there are levels of "bricking" and some can be resurrected and some cannot be.
Better question.....are any retailers taking back bricked GP2x's and reflashing them? I'd get pretty pissed off at the whole thing have one shipped to Australia and then having it break.
Is there any news about using a JTAG interface to resurrect a brick? I play with microcontrollers, including lesser ARM7s all the time so am happy to pull apart a GP2x to hook up a JTAG (using the EXT would be easier though )
Has anyone in the community (not the factory) succesfully hooked up a JTAG yet?
I'd buy one in a heatbeat if I knew I could either return the brick or spend a lot of effort using a JTAG in the worst case scenario.
(on an aside, why oh why did it not ship with a backup kernel or boot from SD card capability???)
I'm a tinkerer and know I will want to update the firmware every new release (can't not have those latest fixes!) but on that point, how easy is it to brick this thing?
I know there are levels of "bricking" and some can be resurrected and some cannot be.
Better question.....are any retailers taking back bricked GP2x's and reflashing them? I'd get pretty pissed off at the whole thing have one shipped to Australia and then having it break.
Is there any news about using a JTAG interface to resurrect a brick? I play with microcontrollers, including lesser ARM7s all the time so am happy to pull apart a GP2x to hook up a JTAG (using the EXT would be easier though )
Has anyone in the community (not the factory) succesfully hooked up a JTAG yet?
I'd buy one in a heatbeat if I knew I could either return the brick or spend a lot of effort using a JTAG in the worst case scenario.
(on an aside, why oh why did it not ship with a backup kernel or boot from SD card capability???)