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Ted3000 wrote:

mason wrote:
have a blank screen now at boot, can't get to utilities.
anyone aware of a key combo at boot up to system reset or anything?

There's no known key combo for a diagnostic boot.

I'm guessing you tried to edit the OS?

yep.

You may be out of luck.

Any idea what did it? Have you double-checked your firmware edits against the tutorial?

Does the unit do anything prior to the screen blanking out?

This could be a good time to try every button combo you can think of and try a few dozen boots.

mason wrote:
have a blank screen now at boot, can't get to utilities.
anyone aware of a key combo at boot up to system reset or anything?

Congratulations. You now have a $400 door stop.

Mulldoon219 wrote:

mason wrote:
have a blank screen now at boot, can't get to utilities.
anyone aware of a key combo at boot up to system reset or anything?

Congratulations. You now have a $400 door stop.

Hey, ditch the schadenfreude, right? This is a genuinely depressing situation, especially if $400 is a lot of money to them, like it is to me.

Why not brainstorm ideas on how to help the poster. If the community can hack the OS, maybe we can discover a recovery process.

Someone was eventually going to brick an e2 with this. It would have been safer if the 100% working hacked files were not taken off Facebook and replaced with a semi-complicated tutorial.

Thinking caps, everyone.

Thanks Ted3000

Ouch Maybe there were some misplaced edits outside the header?

I imagine getting something wrong in the header itself would make the electribe reject the file.

I'm not the best person to help, but to better understand the issue some better explanations seem needed. Your problem happened right after the update process and it would no longer boot, is that right?

Also, display is blank, but what about the rest of the unit? Any signs of life?

pauloapo wrote:Ouch Maybe there were some misplaced edits outside the header?

I imagine getting something wrong in the header itself would make the electribe reject the file.

I'm not the best person to help, but to better understand the issue some better explanations seem needed. Your problem happened right after the update process and it would no longer boot, is that right?

Also, display is blank, but what about the rest of the unit? Any signs of life?

Really the only difference in what the tutorial laid out is I edited the file inside of a hex editor called Hex Fiend on a mac. Maybe some resource fork problem happen? I don't know, thought was no longer a thing with osx.
Signs of life - just the white screen - some times if I'm holding down a button while pushing the power button instead of staying solid white bright it will flicker at like 2hz. Sometimes not. have tried many button combos, while powering after powering, etc... Cracked it open and looked around or a 'press to reset' button, but nothing like that is around.

Ted3000 wrote: It would have been safer if the 100% working hacked files were not taken off Facebook and replaced with a semi-complicated tutorial..

There are known users here with the working files. Perhaps a few well-placed PM's and a torrent upload would solve the problem?

And sadly, the only documented factory restore procedure is accessed by the menus. If it were only the display gone blank a key combo could do the trick.

Only resort I can see is taking it to service. I wouldn't be too chatty about flashing adultered firmware at it and hope the job is done on the warranty.

Keep eyes peeled for a service manual. The EMX/ESX ones are out there, but nothing yet for the grey and black machines.

There has to be a way to have the standard OS update file on an SD card and boot it with a key combo. The ESX/EMX had a combo to flash the chips from files on a card.

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... 300#608300

Ted3000 wrote:

Mulldoon219 wrote:

mason wrote:
have a blank screen now at boot, can't get to utilities.
anyone aware of a key combo at boot up to system reset or anything?

Congratulations. You now have a $400 door stop.

Hey, ditch the schadenfreude, right? This is a genuinely depressing situation, especially if $400 is a lot of money to them, like it is to me.

Why not brainstorm ideas on how to help the poster. If the community can hack the OS, maybe we can discover a recovery process.

Someone was eventually going to brick an e2 with this. It would have been safer if the 100% working hacked files were not taken off Facebook and replaced with a semi-complicated tutorial.

Thinking caps, everyone.

Sorry - if his box got stolen, burned, crushed, or dropped I would gladly give some sympathy. But when you mess around with stuff you know nothing about you get what you get. My thinking cap says if you want the sampler either buy it or wait to see if Korg comes out with an official update. This half-ass hacker bullshit is just stupid -- and now the chickens have come home to roost.

Just a thought. Could you do a reset blindly... By counting arrow pushes until you'd be at the appropriate setting and pushing enter once you're at a factory reset button... In all honesty I haven't read the whole thread.., but I'm curious whether or not because the display is blank if button pushes and functions still work to a point.... For instance.. I'm not in front of my box but say you hit menu and 5 right arrows over is "reset" a little like battleship theoretically. All the best!

Mulldoon219 wrote:Sorry - if his box got stolen, burned, crushed, or dropped I would gladly give some sympathy. But when you mess around with stuff you know nothing about you get what you get. My thinking cap says if you want the sampler either buy it or wait to see if Korg comes out with an official update. This half-ass hacker bullshit is just stupid -- and now the chickens have come home to roost.

Please.

If it wasn't for the tinkerers and curious minds in the world you wouldn't have thought to live in a cave.

pauloapo wrote:

Mulldoon219 wrote:Sorry - if his box got stolen, burned, crushed, or dropped I would gladly give some sympathy. But when you mess around with stuff you know nothing about you get what you get. My thinking cap says if you want the sampler either buy it or wait to see if Korg comes out with an official update. This half-ass hacker bullshit is just stupid -- and now the chickens have come home to roost.

Please.

If it wasn't for the tinkerers and curious minds in the world you wouldn't have thought to live in a cave.

Yes yes. It's all fun and great until someone loses a groovebox.

But hey, he was SO close to being able to sample!!!

"This half-ass hacker bullshit is just stupid -- and now the chickens have come home to roost."

Indeed - exactly what JP had warned.