Hello, this is my first time on this forum, and my story will be a little long, but I will try to describe it in as much detail as I can. I apologize for my English(not exactly my native language, but im pretty familiar with understanding, while writing may be a little hard to me).
I received a PleoRB from my friends who left for another country more than four years ago. He was already at the adult stage, and in an attempt to reset him to a newborn, I made the same mistake as some owners here-I downloaded the old pleo firmware, after which he did not show any signs of life except for the red glow of the led on his belly. After that I contacted the official Innvo support, and they sent me a reset file and firmware update, but as I remember, they did not install right for some reason. I couldn't figure out how to fix it, and for a long time the Pleo was left in the closet, sadly. Maybe his battery needs some refresh now, but its not the point.
Yesterday I again reached the mood to try do something with him, and I charged the battery, downloaded the reset firmware from this forum,and was able to successfully install it(according to his vocalization that the update completed), and then i downloaded male 1.0 and 1.1 versions, after which the Pleo straightened up in the transport position. After it i turned him on, belly indicator glows green, but Pleo beeps three times, after that he make additional soft sound, like bell ringing, and then he does nothing, not move or sound. I have read here, and tried resetting and rearranging as well as changing the battery of his internal clock many times, but it does not give results. I tried different batteries, tried run him without one as well, and im sure i insert them properly under the small pins.
But I noticed that if i press reset clock battery a few seconds before the Pleo makes that three sounds, he will move his legs a little and then freezes again, starting to endlessly beep twice until i turn him off. I couldn't find exactly what double beeping means here. He doesn't move or turn off by itself at all.
Skits and personalities totally work fine at the moment(tested R2D2 one), but only when SD card inside, once it is pulled out, Pleo again does nothing and beeps.
I'm ready to do almost anything to bring this guy to life, even if it means taking him apart a little bit(i have some knowledge about how to solder wires,etc), but seems like the problem is in his firmware. I had a theory that maybe he didn't recognize his battery because of the loosen wire, but I managed to carefully disassemble his leg, and there are all the wires in place and no visible damage at the contact points. Many years have passed, the warranty is unlikely to still apply to him, in addition, there currently are no service centers in my country where I can try to send him, so I will try to cope on my own. And in this I need your help. What should I try to do?What does his audio indication mean?What else could be the problem, if he works fine with skits, but doesn't work on its own?
P.S.: I also tried this StatsRB thing, it doesn't say anything about possible firmware errors, but it shows that the pleo growth stage is a hatchling, 0/16. Maybe I can find an empty SD card and send the full stats report here later, if this can help.
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