X5 Intermittent Crash with Beta Firmware?

anilr · 10-06-2005, 10:05

For the past couple weeks my X5 has been 'randomly' crashing. I'll be playing a song, and the X5 will just stop.
- The screen remains black (it was black during playback - normal)
- The power appears to be on.
- Fiddling with the joystick does nothing.

Pressing UP on the on/off switch turns the X5 OFF (you hear a power spike through the headphones). I can then turn the X5 back on. Playback of the same song does reproduce the crash. I am playing folders that contain about 10 songs (I don't have large playlists).

Anybody else experience this problem? Is it possible to downgrade the firmware - I want to make sure this isn't a hardware bug (doesn't seem hardware related - but who knows!).

Thanks everybody,
Anil

doniago · 10-06-2005, 10:15

I have had my player "stick" a few times. If I toggled the power it oddly came back to the first song it had queued when I first turned the power on (as if I hadn't played anything in the meantime). Since I normally do Shuffle-All, I can't speak for whether the same song would crash the player again (yet, anyway).

Have you tried re-encoding the song(s) in question?

golden eye · 10-07-2005, 11:29

I have the Beta firmware and I have had no problems. Maybe the firmware files you downloaded was corrupt or missing a file or two. Have you tried re doing the firmware upgrade? Or if the previous version worked better, maybe revert back to that version? Good luck...

anilr · 10-11-2005, 08:35

The strange thing is that it's only happend 3 or 4 times, each time with a different song. I think I'll just keep playing music until I can figure out a pattern... :o

micboyle · 10-15-2005, 14:11

yeah mine had this problem randomly for the first time just today. hope it does not persist... this is just one of a long list of minor faults my x5 seems to have at the moment.

10-06-2005, 10:05	#1
anilr Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 36	X5 Intermittent Crash with Beta Firmware? For the past couple weeks my X5 has been 'randomly' crashing. I'll be playing a song, and the X5 will just stop. - The screen remains black (it was black during playback - normal) - The power appears to be on. - Fiddling with the joystick does nothing. Pressing UP on the on/off switch turns the X5 OFF (you hear a power spike through the headphones). I can then turn the X5 back on. Playback of the same song does reproduce the crash. I am playing folders that contain about 10 songs (I don't have large playlists). Anybody else experience this problem? Is it possible to downgrade the firmware - I want to make sure this isn't a hardware bug (doesn't seem hardware related - but who knows!). Thanks everybody, Anil

10-07-2005, 11:29	#3
golden eye Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Northern California, Bay area Posts: 93	I have the Beta firmware and I have had no problems. Maybe the firmware files you downloaded was corrupt or missing a file or two. Have you tried re doing the firmware upgrade? Or if the previous version worked better, maybe revert back to that version? Good luck... __________________ Life is too short to drink cheap beer...cheers!

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10-06-2005, 10:15	#2
doniago I, Like, Do Stuff Here. Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Burlington, VT Posts: 4,651	I have had my player "stick" a few times. If I toggled the power it oddly came back to the first song it had queued when I first turned the power on (as if I hadn't played anything in the meantime). Since I normally do Shuffle-All, I can't speak for whether the same song would crash the player again (yet, anyway). Have you tried re-encoding the song(s) in question?

10-11-2005, 08:35	#4
anilr Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 36	The strange thing is that it's only happend 3 or 4 times, each time with a different song. I think I'll just keep playing music until I can figure out a pattern... :o

10-15-2005, 14:11	#5
micboyle Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 25	yeah mine had this problem randomly for the first time just today. hope it does not persist... this is just one of a long list of minor faults my x5 seems to have at the moment.