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    richardh151
    last edited by Aug 28, 2020, 6:45 PM

    I’ve been very happy with my magic mirror for a while now however the other day it simple stopped working. I noticed now that I cannot get the Raspberry Pi 3+ to successfully start up. I explored online for days and tried changing the Config txt file after recovery start up.

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    It boots up to this part then goes black with a blinking cursor in the top left hand corner. Please can someone help a novice who was proud I had got the magic mirror fully working.

    Thanks Richard

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      BKeyport Module Developer
      last edited by Aug 28, 2020, 8:43 PM

      I had that problem. Turns out my off brand cards I was using were fake sized. It would eventually overwrite itself. Card said “32Gig” was 8 meg or some such.

      Double check you got good cards. I’d start there. Hope you got some backup.

      The "E" in "Javascript" stands for "Easy"

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        earnestrichards
        last edited by earnestrichards Aug 29, 2020, 3:24 AM Aug 29, 2020, 3:21 AM

        My understanding is that that micro-SD card problem is particularly vexing for the the photographic community. I told my daughter, a part-time pro photog, that I was buying another couple of micro-SD card for my PI4 and she warned me about that. There are some real horror stories associated with that issue - think weddings.

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          richardh151 @earnestrichards
          last edited by Aug 29, 2020, 12:17 PM

          @earnestrichards Thanks for your feedback but it’s a Kingston SD card and I can see the contents on the Card when I Plug it into my PC. I think the SD card is not the Problem, but I’m no expert

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            sdetweil @richardh151
            last edited by sdetweil Aug 29, 2020, 12:47 PM Aug 29, 2020, 12:45 PM

            @richardh151 sadly these SD cards are a lot more fragile than they would have you believe. the actual memory cells are write once. so as u write more times, u leave behind old dead, used memory cells, until you run out, and then the card is useless.
            I have gone thru 8 memory cards.

            on.my two mostly development machines, I have moved to boot from SD card, run from SSD.
            it has the same memory issue, but due to the size, will take a lot longer to run out.
            (recent reports of a windows 10 defragmentation bug causing early SSD failures from this problem. see https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/windows-10-bug-wrecking-ssd/ )

            so, my best suggestion, get a new card, and an adapter, flash raspian on the new card, and then use the adapter in a USB port on the pi to copy the MagicMirror folder to the new card.

            and get a bigger card than u need

            Sam

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              earnestrichards @sdetweil
              last edited by Aug 29, 2020, 1:49 PM

              @sdetweil That’s interesting, and disconcerting, about the Win10 SSD problem.

              How long do you estimate that your cards last?

              Does reading the card inflict damage the same way as a write would?

              I think I will also keep at least one cloned SD card handy.

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                sdetweil @earnestrichards
                last edited by sdetweil Aug 29, 2020, 1:57 PM Aug 29, 2020, 1:54 PM

                @earnestrichards read does not affect like write does. and of course for low write environments, like cameras and music devices, the cards last near forever.

                my 8 cards have failed since Nov 16 when I started working on pis. lost a pi 3 mm card 2 weeks ago. luckily it wasn’t customized.

                Sam

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                  richardh151 @sdetweil
                  last edited by Aug 29, 2020, 3:35 PM

                  @sdetweil Thanks Sam

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