I sent my unit away after failing to do the headphone mod. It finally came back a few days ago. (I think Chinese customs was mostly to blame for the wait)
I've got my unit back and I have been tinkering with it a bit.
I am using Supreme Retrostone 1.3 on the 16gb microSD card that came with it.
I had a lot of bad boots, failed shutdowns and microSD card corruption (the system would eventually not boot at all).
I was unable to save state on PSX games. It just didn't work. Stayed at 0% and didn't change.
I browsed it using a linux file browser and was unable to recover my saves.
Lots of formatting and re-etching and it was still very unstable and easily corrupted.
I then used Aomei, wiped the SD card (using fill with zero option), reformatted it (fat32) and re-etched it using Etcher.
Then I let the console run until it's battery completely ran out to test it. I re-charged the battery and have been using it for a day now.
Every few boots it doesn't work and I have to power cycle the console. It usually boots fine afterwards.
No data corruption yet. PSX save states are working. It feels more stable. I am feeling a bit more confident with the device.
Basically as long as it doesn't corrupt my SD card and kill any saves anymore, I think I'm going to use it a fair bit
My experiences: Proper Use, SD Card formatting, Corruption
Re: My experiences: Proper Use, SD Card formatting, Corruption
So, worked fine for several days.
Corrupted again. I think it was because I shut down while inside the file manager (which I think you can't get out of without attaching a keyboard).
Was able to pull my saves off.
Re-wiped, formatted using Aomei and re-etched and....still corrupted, didn't really work.
Re-formatted using SD Card formatter and re-etched. Working fine again, as before.
So, be careful with your shutdowns and back up saves frequently I guess!
Next I will look into how to script this....
Corrupted again. I think it was because I shut down while inside the file manager (which I think you can't get out of without attaching a keyboard).
Was able to pull my saves off.
Re-wiped, formatted using Aomei and re-etched and....still corrupted, didn't really work.
Re-formatted using SD Card formatter and re-etched. Working fine again, as before.
So, be careful with your shutdowns and back up saves frequently I guess!
Next I will look into how to script this....
Re: My experiences: Proper Use, SD Card formatting, Corruption
Im waiting for mine. Lets hope none of that happens. Perhaps im being too much optimistic. Hopefully, nothing that further sofware development cant fix.