newRPL - build 1255 released! [updated to 1299]

[Claudio L.]

(06-23-2019 11:57 AM)JoJo1973 Wrote:  

(06-23-2019 02:38 AM)Claudio L. Wrote:  The file looks OK. Did you use newRPL Desktop to flash it or SD card? Looks like your calc jumped out of place. Try flashing again, and put new batteries just in case. When flashing with newRPL desktop it doesn't check the battery voltage. Perhaps it wasn't sufficient to write to flash successfully.
Also, try the download again, it's not the first time a download gets corrupted.

I don't think it's a batteries issue because I've been able to reflash it back to build 1255 successfully with the same batteries. Anyway I tried with a fresh pack and got the same result. All my attempts were made using SD card.

I never attempted before using the PC version but now decided a try: using build 1255 the progress bar advanced to 20-25% then it became all black, returned white with an animation and the calc reset to a blank screen.

I panicked a bit because afterwards the calc seemed unresponsive to reset and I feared having bricked it. However I've been able to resurrect it and reflashed it to 1255.

To ensure that there was no problem with my cable I used the PC simulator to flash build 1255 on itself: this time the progress bar grew up to 50% (I assume now it's calibrated to 2MB RAM) and everything went OK - I'd exclude a cable problem.

I've redownloaded the file and checked it against the copy I've used. The files are identical and their checksum is:

newrplfw.bin (application/octet-stream) - 1045356 bytes
SHA-256 3c112f108f5e512d0f93237762777c01a41918e4d013a0e2984ee28136e272f6

I downloaded the file on a different PC from the same link in this forum, flashed using SD card and it works just fine here. Try clearing your RAM completely (On-A-F and all 3 shifts+clear).