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Old 06-11-2013, 02:30 PM   #1228
vengeancecube
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Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
First - Try using KUBRICK on it (more than once if required).

The controller on the flash chip is relatively smart - repeated flashing might give it a chance to find and disable the failing erase blocks.

That controller also has "management" control instructions, but no one here has (yet) written a chip diagnostic/repair routine that can be loaded with the USB downloader mode.

It is worth using for a learning experience at least.

**KEEP** it on the charger - you can't trust the internal battery management when the firmware is not working properly!!!
Sounds like it's worth a try! On a side note, is there any way other than the diags to force it to mount as a usb drive on my computer? I'd like to be able to clone all that information from the chip in case I ever do get access to a rework setup. It'd be a shame to get it functional again only to not be able to use it because it lacked the user data. Or can I just re-register it? Geez if I designed electronics I'd make the software environment SO much more user-friendly.
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