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Title: Old Pleo 2008 won’t work. Need Technical assistance.
Post by: Eamo600 on March 24, 2013, 03:05:15 AM

Old Pleo model 2008 won’t work. Need Technical assistance.

I just picked up an old Pleo going cheap and am trying to bring it to life.
Trying to flash it with the 1.0.2 but nothing.
Typing LS on the internal SD B: shows no files.

LS A: shows
SD card not present

I know not to use anything bigger than 2GB SD. I've tried 3 x 2GB SD;s (integral ultima pro 133x, 2gb micro sd sd-co2g Taiwan and traveller high speed sd). All are non HC.

Battery reports full charge.

 config
Pleo Hardware Configuration:
  Hardware ID: FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF (FFFFFFFF)
  Serial Number: 123456789ABC
  Board Revision: 17-8
  Board Revision ADC: 522
Build Configuration:
  Firmware built for: Pleo
  Build type: RELEASE
  Pleo main ARM version: 8128 - Mar 19 2008 06:24:52
  Pleo head ARM version: 8128 - Mar 19 2008 06:25:46
  Pleo PM (DF) version: 0 - Jan 01 1970 00:00:00
  Bootloader version: 7361 - Nov 15 2007 21:34:31
  Compiled in:   Thumb mode
  Resource folders:  on
MotorController Configuration:
WARN: low: motion: MotorController0 not configured.
  MotorController 0: Version 0
WARN: low: motion: MotorController1 not configured.
  MotorController 1: Version 0
WARN: low: motion: MotorController2 not configured.
  MotorController 2: Version 0
WARN: low: motion: MotorController3 not configured.
  MotorController 3: Version 0
VM Configuration:
  Incremental mode:   off
  Code swapping:      false
  malloc mode:        false
  main vm image:      4096
  sensors vm image:   3072
  auxiliary vm image: 2560
  user vm image:      2048

The hardware ID and serial number look very odd.
Are there any internal button battery’s that need replacing?
Does anyone think it can be brought back to life? :pray:

Title: Re: Old Pleo 2008 won’t work. Need Technical assistance.
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 24, 2013, 03:44:05 AM

Battery is probably dead (yes I know it says full charge but almost all problems like this are battery related). Also never ever ever try an update on a non functioning Pleo. My first step would be getting a new battery.

Title: Re: Old Pleo 2008 won’t work. Need Technical assistance.
Post by: Eamo600 on March 25, 2013, 12:42:03 PM

Thanks. I stuck another 7.2 volt battery in parallel to give it more amp (as a quick test only) and got a leg movement.
So now I know it’s not a circuit board problem. I get myself a proper battery.
 :)

Title: Re: Old Pleo 2008 won’t work. Need Technical assistance.
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 25, 2013, 01:28:14 PM

Go for the white egg lipoly battery if you can, you need a different charger, but the batteries give twice as long a runtime and have far less chance of dying. The green batteries are all very, very old now.

Title: Re: Old Pleo 2008 won’t work. Need Technical assistance.
Post by: Crewella on March 25, 2013, 06:37:41 PM

IMR's right, the Li-poly/egg batteries are much better.  You can use the same adapter, as the egg chargers don't come with one.