#9206 NORM Not Tri: Bricked XO Flashing from Latest Firmware to Old Firmware trying to fix SD Card

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#9206: Bricked XO Flashing from Latest Firmware to Old Firmware trying to fix SD
Card
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 Reporter:  miked         |                 Owner:               
     Type:  defect        |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal        |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  not assigned  |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0             |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:                |              Blocking:               
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 Howdy Mike-d. here,
 mikedee4 at gmail.com
 I was downgrading from q2f01 to q2c01 to fix SD/SDHC card problems. I was
 noticing that the latest 5 -five or so firmwares, would sometimes work and
 other times mess-up my sd/SDHC cards, I was using 4 or 5 different cards,
 and by the end- all stopped working with the latest build. So I thought I
 would go back as far as I could in the firmware series, for my G1G1-XO and
 update/upgrade/flash each firmware one at a time, and see which worked
 with the SD/SDHC Cards and which didn't and publish my results. I started
 with the Q2C01 firmware from the Q2F01 firmware I was using and that was
 the end of my testing. My XO only shows a orange LED light, and does
 nothing else. No screen, no noise, nothing. = Bricked. I am willing to try
 and fix it, I have searched much of Seattle looking for the serial cards,
 I have opened my XO and learned that the recovery jumper and 5-pin plug
 are not installed on my XO, but there is a four-pin plug. Once I learn how
 to fix my XO, I will offer free-bricked by bad flash repair in Portland,
 Oregon. I will also spread the word in Seattle, because every Computer
 Repair Shop I went to couldn't even start to think how to fix, much less,
 make a reasonable offer to fix. There has to be a better way to do the no
 brick-thing. How are people supported to fix these in the so-called third
 world, if we can really fix it here. I will try and piece together what I
 got in Seattle to make this work, but any suggestions will be helpful. I
 don't want to send it in for repair, I want to do it myself, or watch it
 done. feel free to e-mail me with ideas, suggestions, or whatever.
 Thanks in advance,

 Mike-d.

 P.S. It has been down since last year.

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