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evilwombat / gopro-usb-tools

Tools for booting an otherwise hard-bricked GoPro Hero2 / Hero3+Black / Hero4 camera using its built-in USB command mode, to its RTOS or to a standalone Linux environment.
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Error mounting card. press REC. to retry #18

Open HellaCool opened 6 years ago

HellaCool commented 6 years ago

Hi everybody,

I have a GoPro 4 Black, and after reparing it it lost its firmware.

So I downloaded and installed the drivers for the Hero 4, then connected the GoPro to my laptop while holding the shutter button. It got recognized as unknown device. I then ran the recovery_win file and got to the part where it would start the SD card but then the screen says:

Error mounting card. press REC. to retry

Did that: retrying.... preparing card... and again error mounting card. pres REC to retry

Any solution to this issue?

evilwombat commented 6 years ago

Hello. What size is your card, and how is the card fomatted?

Due to filesystem limitations (and silly licensing nonsense), you MUST use a card formatted with the FAT (well, FAT32) filesystems. Larger cards (>32GB) tend to be formatted with exFAT, which cannot be read by the camera when running in Linux-based recovery mode.

It is also possible that your card is "weird" in terms of the signalling modes or voltages it can support. Since I don't have a PMIC driver in Linux, we are stuck with the default signalling modes.

Regardless of which actual cause you are experiencing, I suggest trying a different card. You can leave the camera on and keep swapping cards until one works. I've got a few cards at home that don't work with recovery mode, but most of mine do. You might have just been unlucky.

HellaCool commented 6 years ago

Hi, thanks for your reply.

I have tried with different cards. It got to the moment where it says: flashing root wait then Flashing complete! Please reboot me :) After that I have tried to reboot it, nothing happens. I have repeated the process a couple of times, also by using different cards; the response is always the same. The camera still won't reboot, matter of fact it does not respond at all to input (nothing appears on the screen, no light turns on, the laptop does not recognize it, the camera keeps on connecting and disconnecting when plugged into the computer....

so this is what i did:

  1. hold rec. button 5 second and plug it in to the computer to keep it recognized, without it disconnect it over and over again.
  2. run the file saying recovery_win
  3. Stuck a Sd card in containing the H4 Recovery.tgz
  4. it says process complete something like that and then go pro screen says
  5. its flashing some stuff
  6. Flashing complete. Reboot me now :)
  7. cant get it to reboot
  8. tried to hard reset it as well one time after it saying reboot me now; Nothing seems to happen, camera does not work Have to redo the process over
HellaCool commented 6 years ago

btw te first card was a 64 gb so thats why it did not work the first time

HellaCool commented 6 years ago

second time with a 4GB and an 8GB -->process described above

HellaCool commented 6 years ago

Hi there,

is there any solution to the above mentioned problem? Please let me know. Thank you

rsrmdp commented 2 years ago

Hola, gracias por tu respuesta.

He probado con diferentes tarjetas. Llegó al momento en que dice: flasheo de raíz, espere y luego ¡Parpadeo completo! Por favor, reinícieme :) Después de eso, he intentado reiniciarlo, pero no pasa nada. He repetido el proceso un par de veces, también con diferentes tarjetas; la respuesta es siempre la misma. La cámara aún no se reinicia, de hecho, no responde en absoluto a la entrada (no aparece nada en la pantalla, no se enciende ninguna luz, la computadora portátil no la reconoce, la cámara sigue conectándose y desconectándose cuando se conecta a la computadora) ....

así que esto es lo que hice:

  1. mantenga rec. botón 5 segundos y conéctelo a la computadora para que lo reconozca, sin que lo desconecte una y otra vez.
  2. ejecuta el archivo que dice recovery_win
  3. Atascó una tarjeta SD que contenía H4 Recovery.tgz
  4. dice procesar completar algo así y luego pasar a profesional dice la pantalla
  5. esta parpadeando algunas cosas
  6. Parpadeo completo. Reiniciarme ahora :)
  7. no puedo hacer que se reinicie
  8. también intenté reiniciarlo una vez después de que dijera reiniciarme ahora; Parece que no pasa nada, la cámara no funciona Tengo que volver a hacer el proceso

vas a tener que leer el archivo "readme" del repositorio. saludos