Pen 20 help

[celest saddle]

Hi, is the way of putting batteries in Pen20 slightly different? I realise that sometimes it seems to corrupt the data when i take out and place the battery in, i just got both used and am worried they are faulty

[odd dagger]

have you moded your pen20?

what i mean is the debug mode on?

[celest saddle]

not that im aware of

[odd dagger]

Probably the IC is shorting

One of my pen20 used to short out because i did something wrong while modding it.

It doesn’t hold any saves until i resoldered all the smd and IC

Maybe you can try opening it up and cleaning all the contacts with 99% ipa.

Could be just dust bridging the contacts and causing the short to the IC.

[celest saddle]

hmm yeah gotta go get me the IPA

This happens when i try to change, and it does happen quite constanly

[lethal steppe]

This is unfortunately a known issue with the Pend20. If the device gets a sudden loss of power, it can wipe the save data.
So suddenly removing the battery can do this.
What is recommended is to press the reset button. This makes a save and isn't using the active program of the device. You can now remove the battery and replace it. Then press reset again before continuing your progress. Doing this should lower the change of wiping the data.

[lethal steppe]

Press the reset button.

[celest saddle]

oh!

it works when i reset it

[lethal steppe]

I hope it's the lighting but the screen does look faint.

[lethal steppe]

This is why we press reset when we replace the battery.

The old turn it off and on again.

[celest saddle]

i think i was just paranoid haha.cause my other device didnt have this issue, and suddenly both my pen20 have this

[celest saddle]

yeah its very faint when it seems like i didnt place the battery properly?

[hot sierra]

SHINKA!

@celest saddle has evolved into Child!

[lethal steppe]

Some Pend20 devices are more susceptible to loosing data. I've only ever had it once and that was my fault for leaving a dead battery in the device.

[celest saddle]

man seems like the pen20 devices are quite troublesome huh

[lethal steppe]

It's either a weak battery, or if the device has been opened, the screws aren't tight enough. If you gently squeeze the device, does it improve?

[lethal steppe]

They weren't allowed to be too prefect. Lol

The lag and the loss of data saves can be annoying/problematic.

[celest saddle]

squeezing dont really work

i changed it to a new battery so doubt so

not sure if it has been opened, i bought both used from surugaya

[lethal steppe]

What brand?

[celest saddle]

panasonic

[lethal steppe]

Ok, so not a no name cheap battery.

There can be the chance that the previous owner may have opened it and tried to mod it.
But if the screen doesn't bother you or if you haven't had much experience opening devices, I'd leave it tbh.

[celest saddle]

pressing the reset button after i see the jumbled up text seems to work

[lethal steppe]

Here is an old pic from mine. The screen contrast should look like this.

[celest saddle]

my only worry was what i purchased was like faulty

[celest saddle]

yeah mine looks like that when it works

[lethal steppe]

Having to press reset is normal and recommended to do with all devices when the battery is replaced. Just in case.

[lethal steppe]

Ok, it must have just been the photo.

[celest saddle]

no um how do I explain it

ok when i remove and place the battery in, i either get the actual digimon 20 screen

or i get this lighter version or random digimons or just patches of black dot

[hexed owl]

Actually, the plural of Digimon is Pokémon.

[celest saddle]

and pressing any input dont work

if that makes sense?

[lethal steppe]

Yes. That is a known issue.

Like I said. Pressing reset usally fixes this issue.

And I follow what you mean.

[celest saddle]

hmm okie

i suppose i dont have to be worried that the condition of both device is bad right?

[lethal steppe]

If that happens, it's unfortunately normal and nothing to worry about

[celest saddle]

haha thats true

at least i have it as part of my collection, eventhough might be faulty

thanks alot spirit! really appreciate it

[lethal steppe]

No worries. It's a great device and 1 of my favourites. But it does have It's issues. It was almost the prefect device.

[celest saddle]

yeah it was kinda hard getting them, had to pay quite alot

the con of getting into the hobby too late

[lethal steppe]

They shot up in price once it was commen knowledge that they could be modded and have all 4 versions on 1 device. And unfortunately they stayed expensive.

[celest saddle]

yeah i paid like 25kyen each.

on hindsight was a bad purchase, but i really wanted it to complete my collection

so with them i have two device per generation at least

[lethal steppe]

Nice!

Then have fun with the device.

[odd dagger]

so i didn't have to open up my device if this happened. damn.