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[ferroptic]

Forgive me, I know this has been done to death, but I've read everything I can on where I am now, and I'm stumped.

I got a Supercard SD from Real Hot Stuff, it had a really glitchy background when I first used it, and crashed randomly. I upgraded the firmware, and after what I thought was a successful upgrade (looked that way, counted up all the bytes, etc) I rebooted to a brick.

I've now gone through the craziness of taking the plunge on Flashme, wifime'ing over darkfader's Flashmp, and it recognizes that I have a supercard SD, I do L+R - up, and it says:

Erasing-
Programming (numbers I don't recall offhand) bytes...

And never gives me anything beyond that. I've let it sit for 20 minutes, nothing further - and, to its credit, I can now get error messages out of my supercard - if I deliberately leave out the SD card, or format it with fat32, i get text error messages.

I've tried to upgrade the firmware again, thinking maybe flashmp is doing an incomplete recovery, and when I do that, I get the Read Flash Id error, mentioned on half a dozen other posts. The difference for me is, I get a solid block of black instead of a version number. For example:

"Old :#####
Now :Ver1.52
Are you sure upgrade?"
So then I press A for yes. But it displays this message, "Read flash id error! Please turn off."

I've tried 1.52, 1.53, etc, same Read Flash Id error every time.

I was happy that I thought i'd revived the supercard (even though it died for no understandable reason at all) but now I'm beginning to think the thing was rotten from the get go.

Any ideas on how I can get it to accept a full firmware upgrade, since it can't decipher what flashmp is putting on it?

Or, any insight on what is supposed to happen after the "Programming xyz bytes..." step of flashmp?

Much appreciated-

[bitblt]

Well, flashmp should only take a short time to re-flash your supercard and should display confirmation when it's done.  The problem might be with the SD slot on your supercard?  Try using a small bit of paper inside the slot to apply slight pressure on your SD card.  I had a similar problem trying to re-flash a supercard in this thread . . .

NDSL recovery service + Supercard service + more
http://scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2648&highlight=

[ferroptic]

Ha!

Didn't work first try, but jamming the paper in a little less and giving it just a -tiny- push down did the trick. Flashmp flashed fine, and I no longer get "A DS Option Pak is inserted."

Now to try flashing it to 1.62 and see if my apartment catches fire...

bitblt for president.

Nice name, btw, nobody remembers smalltalk any more...

[ferroptic]

Woohoo!

Flashed to 1.62 without incident, and runs stuff great now (even with the paper removed.)

Bitblt, thanks a million for your time and expertise.

[bitblt]

Bitblt, thanks a million for your time and expertise.

It was a lucky guess on my part.

Great job!  Now your supercard works AND you have wifime working.  Sweet.