u/InformalBoi

Hello, everyone.

I'm venting here and posting my frustration as a last resort for in case anyone else can chime in with their inputs, because I've tried everything to recover my Brick, and it has become an actual Brick that only heats up while not responding at all.

I had NextUI installed on it, played some Tetris DX (GBC) on it, then put it to sleep mode and in my bag. It was only when I reached home that I found out that it was unresponsive and heating up, so the feared limbo bug. The only difference in my case being: it's unresponsive no matter what, even after pressing and holding the power, volume down, and restart buttons all at once.

I flashed the recovery image from v1.1.1-20251126, and from the first release v1.0.5 20241105 too. I flashed these on two 16 GB microSD cards (one Intenso U1 card, one Samsung Evo+ U1 card), to account for >32 GB cards possibly not working well with the recovery image, and I even tried recovering it with a 256 GB SanDisk V30 card, right down to flashing Knulli on the 256 GB card and inserting it into my Brick, in the hope that it would somehow boot up and install any CFW possible.

Unfortunately, none of the recovery attempts worked. Whenever I charge the device and try to switch it on with the volume up/down + power button pressed and held, sometimes even the restart button with the other two buttons, with the recovery image card inserted, the device's display doesn't turn on. It merely heats up while staying unresponsive.

I cannot express the helplessness and frustration I'm feeling since the past 3-4 weeks my device is bricked. I only found the time to type this post now. I'm at my wit's end over what the heck else I can do. If anyone chimes in with their inputs, your advice will be immensely appreciated. Thank you.

TEXT WALL WARNING, but advice needed as I'm a university student with little time for tinkering

Basically the title, but I went to AnotherStockMix rather than stock because I was unhappy with the sleep battery life on MuOS, wherein the device would consume around 12-14% battery life if left on sleep overnight (approx. 8 hours). I didn't notice as significant a battery drain on the Stock OS, so I decided to switch back (no hard data to back up my claim though). Furthermore, I didn't have Bluetooth on MuOS, though I later found out that there's a separate app available for Bluetooth connections, posted on the MuOS forums.

However, I liked my RetroArch config on MuOS, I mostly play GBA games, and I feel that the display is perfectly configured on MuOS for mGBA and gpSP on MuOS on the Brick. The display is strangely cut off at the bottom in AnotherStockMix, which I solved by changing the viewport anchor bias Y to 0.5 (center). I had to save these settings as an override. Plus, I'm not too fond of AnotherStockMix's hotkeys, so I'm also contemplating going to StockMix, Stock CFW, MuOS or NextUI if anyone recommends. I tried NextUI for only a couple of days on my Brick before shifting to MuOS, and it has been my favourite so far since, except for the high standby battery drain.

I admit that I'm still not fully familiar with RetroArch settings despite having used it for perhaps 2-3 years in Windows now.

Is there a way for me to import my MuOS Retroarch config into my Stock/StockMix/AnotherStockMix installation? I believe there's a retroarch.cfg file, but might there also be a *.json file that I might be missing? And any override files that I should copy over from MuOS? I cannot find any of the config files on MuOS though.

Thank you so much in advance!

My TrimUI Brick is completely bricked in a 'permanent limbo' state, and I'm furious and disappointed.

We're good!