Record-55 issue was B4 hardware failure (Was: [sugar] Design Question)

[Gary C Martin]

On 20 Jul 2008, at 13:40, Bobby Powers wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Tomeu Vizoso  
> <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>> Works quite well here in a MP with last joyride. Just did some light
>> testing, though.
>
> I've also tested it (lightly) on 3 machines running Joyride ~2170.
>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com 
>> > wrote:
>>> Not good news. I don't recall that anything should have changed
>>> between B4 and the C series that would have impacted Record. I'll  
>>> have
>>> to check it out on more machines...
>>>
>>> -walter
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Gary C Martin  
>>> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>>>> On 19 Jul 2008, at 00:18, Walter Bender wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> (Now that we have a reasonably stable joyride-with a working  
>>>>> Record
>>>>> activity again-I'll try to get a quick user study pulled  
>>>>> together in
>>>>> Peru on this topic by someone less bias than myself.)
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm, not convinced Record-55 is working well enough yet  
>>>> (Joyride-2174),
>>>> unless it's just failing on my B4 hardware. I get everything from  
>>>> a black
>>>> feed, to a green/purple stripy feed. Not managed to actually  
>>>> record anything
>>>> with it yet. Doesn't seem to help launching Record first after a  
>>>> reboot and
>>>> with no other activities (think that was one of the open bugs).
>
> just did that (boot then launch record) and it worked alright for me
> (on a MP machine).
>
> bobby

Thanks for all the feedback.

OK, after a lot of testing and looking through logs I finally  
accidently stumbled on the problem. It seems to be a HW fault on my  
B4. Perhaps a dry solder joint, cracked pcb or camera component not  
seated correctly. If I squeeze the right side of the screen, just  
below the camera lense, Record-55 starts displaying the video image,  
sometimes blank, sometimes green/purple, sometimes back to normal.  
Managed to successfully recorded a video clip while the image was good.

I'm reasonably handy with a soldering iron so I'll open up the unit  
and see if I can see the specific cause. Is there a specific place I  
should report this HW issue incase it is more than single an unlucky  
occurrence?

--Gary