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.
GNU General Public License v2.0
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A Thank you - Almost working - your work appreciated #30

Open bremhillbob opened 1 year ago

bremhillbob commented 1 year ago

Hi Wonbat, just wanted to thank you for all the work on the GoPro hero4 recovery. It VERY nearly worked for me.

I got as far as all the files copied over and the camera told me to re-boot. I disconnected from USB and inserted the battery, waited 10 seconds, powered up ..... the Hero logo appeared on the screen then everything went blank and nothing else happened .....

To be fair - the camera was starting up OK before but freezing after a few seconds .... I had assumed that this was a firmware problem as it had never been updated from new. I had tried the 'normal' update from the SD card but it still 'froze' before the update could get going (I got the 'busy' notification then freeze).

I was hoping that forcing the update via my windows PC would do the job BUT I now think that something else is happening - probably hardware related and even with your excellent utility the freezing goes on.

I think I now own a Hero 4 brick and there is nowhere else to go with this. I have contacted a number of specialist camera repair people but no one seems interested and I guess it's just uneconomical. BUT everything worked (in software) exactly as you described and it was great to see the camera responding.

I'm really grateful to you for creating and sharing that resource, it did allow me one more go at fixing the camera and gave me confidence that I've tried all I can. Thank you - very much appreciated.

Bob

rsrmdp commented 1 year ago

lo que esta fallando ahi es el sensor de la camara o CCD

bremhillbob commented 1 year ago

Gracias. Intentaré desvestirme y comprobar todas las conexiones.

rsrmdp commented 1 year ago

te conviene cambiarlo, intenete en su momento hacerle reballing, pero anduvo poco tiempo image