My serial number and date is: 2005.11.09 - GP2XV003 - 00000095

Does his mean I have a really old one (relatively speaking of course)?

Could that be the reason my screen is so flickery? Also my battery life still seems very low, could an older unit increase the likelihood of a bad regulator?

does it say "first edition" at the top?

yes, sorry. First Edition

So then it's a first edition

I have one too. You got it when it first came out, and it's part of the first batch, like mine.


I hope I cleared that part up, now ill leave it to the spec freaks here to answer the other questions

If it really is flickery then EvilDragon or any distributor can do the resistor mod to it and fix that.

Also you may have a bad regulator if you have some good charged 2,500mAh NiMH batteries that power a GBA with a snake light for more than 7 hours(my brother claims about 9 hours! a week of playing for him) but won't take your GP2X beyond an hour or two.

Are those last digits the actual number of the device in manufacturing? If so, then I guess they've sold about five thousand units, considering mine says this: 2006.06.02 - GP2XV127 - 00004961

Maybe the third bit is reset to zero with every revision, but I kind of doubt it. Five thousand already is not bad at all, considering the GP32 sold 30 000 in... what? Four years? Five?

I think that 5k seems about right. Mine is 2006.06.09 - GP2XV127 - 00004975

No No No. They sold more then 5000.

Thats 5000 units from the batch on 2006.06.09
Or 5000 units from the batch on 2006.06.02
etc...

The first part is the date of manufacturing. The second is the version number of the hardware (revisions, etc... I think, not 100% on this part) and the last is your number from that batch.

The first part is the date that particular 2x left the factory. The second part, however, it not the revision, but the run of manufacture. The third part is how far along the unit was within the run.

So

2006.06.09 - GP2XV127 - 00004975

means this GP2X left the factory on June 9th 2006, as a part of manufacture run #127 (which is actually run #28, as the runs started at 100 for some reason), and was GP2X # 4,975 within run 28.

That's the first day gp2x were produced. So you could say it's old

Woah! So this means the GP2X has outsold the GP32 several times over?
ED? You got any comments on that?

The OPs GP2X seems to contradict that theory:

YYYY.MM.DD - GP2XV*** - ########

I'm i right in thinking the *** is the factory installed firmware version? I've been meaning to check that as i have GP2XV101 - 00000001.

No, because my firmware is 2.0. Why would the software determine your unit's identity number?

whats your number then?

Its wrong, because look in this thread, 003, 006, etc...
The firmwares (to my knowledge):
Beta 1
Beta 2
1.0
1.01
(was there a 1.02 and 1.03?)
1.1
1.2
1.2.1
1.4
2.0

Then why does mine say

2005.11.18 - GP2XV102 - 00000494

When it is a first edition and one if the first 5,000 produced? Surely it didn't take 102 runs to make 5,000 GP2Xs. Perhaps the topic starter made a mistake?

EDIT: I see what you mean now. Perhaps the topic starter has one of the first 500 Korean-only units then? Maybe the GP2XV### meant something different on those?

I have: 2005.12.12 - GP2XV127 - 00001409
At some point, I want to trade mine in to get a newer version, but I dunno how I'll go about doing that.

On the sticker, it says "Model No: GP2X-F100"
THAT might be the firmware.

Also, I notice the flickering on the black-screen-of-death, but not anywhere else, because the flickering is extremely subtle and it doesn't bother me.

Wow, first of all, the GP2X-F100 is the model number (MKII's are GP2X-F100B) and second of all, you can "trade" it in. Jesus Christ. These forums are lowering my IQ.

Firmware is software, not hardware, which means it can be upgraded, which means that if you DO upgrade it, and the number on the back is actually the firmware, the marking on the unit unit will be faulty. So, no. F100 is the real name of it. Just like Fuji's cameras are called F10, S9500 and so on. Since your unit was produced last year, I'm pretty sure it's a Mark 1.

My Gp2x has the text 2005.11.09 - GP2XV003 - 00000001 on it.

Does that just mean it's a MK1? It also says First Edition on it.

If that's true, then I think you might actually have the first mass-production GP2X ever produced! First Edition is not MK1, I think. I remember someone saying there was First Ed, Second Ed, MK1 and then MK2. Or something. My memory isn't always that reliable, though.

Bloody Hell!! If that's the case, maybe I shouldn't have painted it yellow!

Hahah! Don't you find the yellow colour slightly distracting?

I personally can't stand those paint-mods. They look terrible!

Sorry, it's not like I have 2 of these readily available, and no one's posting their labels, so I don't have anything to compare with.