37 replies to this topic

[baalim]

Hello everybody,

I recently bricked my dear wiz with the last firmware update.
I wonder if someone can help me with my newly destroyed wiz or direct me to someone who's willing to repair it.

I do hope there's a solution to bring it back to life

[Cwaf]

The PDF file is encrypted, please can somebody give me the password? Damn, I hate that I just bricked my Wiz.

Edited by Cwaf, 07 June 2010 - 03:45 PM.

[crow_riot]

take a look here, nothing should be crypted: http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,23,265

[Cwaf]

Thank, but this is above and beyond any technical ability I have (or more suitably, lack). I don't suppose there is any service or person I could send my Wiz to, is there?

[crow_riot]

well you could contact the after sales center in germany if they unbrick it: http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/49588-as-center-opened/

they're friendly and helpful from what is said here in the forums.

[RajTakhar]

Is there anyone in UK who can fix a bricked wiz
I attempted to update to 1.2.6
Mine now has a all-black screen
and no amount of SD cards and switching on/off seems to do anything
I would really like someone to fix the issue for me and would be quite willing to pay for a repair
I am in the midlands, derby
someone - with right skills - please PM
raj.takhar@hp.com

[pseudonym404]

I've been playing with this again recently, and thought it might be worth mentioning that to send the 16K of UART boot code, you simply need to write one byte at a time at 19200bps (that is, actually write the bytes at about that speed, as well as configure the port for that speed), msleep(4) between bytes seems to be sufficient.

Also, only CfgBOOTMODE0 needs to be pulled down, my USB-serial cable currently has RTS connected to CfgBOOTMODE0 (pin 9), and DTR connected to Power_En (pin 6), so I can power cycle and choose between UART and NAND boot in software.

EDIT: make that usleep(417), seems I was out a digit :/
EDIT2: or do it properly and call tcdrain, although that's a fair bit slower

Edited by pseudonym404, 21 February 2012 - 08:53 PM.

[zaba]

Any retailer that fixes bricked Wiz??