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whew: my NX300 was only Mostly bricked!

Started Jan 18, 2016 | Discussions
jimrpdx
jimrpdx Veteran Member • Posts: 3,954
whew: my NX300 was only Mostly bricked!

I picked up a bargain NX300 with FW1.32, so I bumped it up to 1.45 - and it went into blinking-green LED death mode. All I have read about this was that updating from FW1.00 fixed it, so clearly this wasn't a typical 1.3+ issue!

I swapped batteries and cards with limited success - i.e. if camera was ON and battery inserted with no card, it worked fine and reported 1.45 (and of course, no card).  I could take one shot and play it back, but inserting a card would trigger the Samsung logo flash and death mode again.

On the first update attempt I had some files on a 16G card, which generally works but is not the recommended way of going about it. I finally emptied an old 8G card, reformatted it and put FW 1.45 on it alone. The camera came alive with the new card, so I re-upped the FW.. and I believe it's all better. Whoa that was 20 hours of spooky..

I recall that one of my 16G cards had issues before in a Pentax, working fine but showing corrupted images; this card may have been the one. Just enough corruption to freak me out but not enough to make it Completely bricked.  I think it's time to watch the Princess Bride movie again!

At today's prices it's time to make a pre-emptive move & toss out all similar 16G cards, I'm thinking.

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ttbek Veteran Member • Posts: 4,869
Re: whew: my NX300 was only Mostly bricked!
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Glad you and your camera were safe in the end ^_^.

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