Bro, i went through all this stuff almost step by step. thank you so much for making this vid! every curveball i got trying to fix my xxH, you warned beforehand and it kept me calm, and your directions were great. took a while but i fixed it, and its updated too. thank god! this is too sweet a device to not use because its stuck on the anbernic logo
Dude, I had literally given up on everything until I saw your video, thank you very much. You already gained a subscriber, you saved me an annoying procedure.
So what I got from this is: As soon as possible, grab a new and better SD card and copy the built-in card’s files and folders to the new one; and then make the ‘original’ card a blank one for expanded storage, if not put into the trash.
Could you link an easy way to clone an ss card to another card on a MacBook Pro from 2011? lol. Cloning a card is the one thing I wish I could do easier but I have limited tech.
despite my internet sucking the life of me cause im super inpatient, this totally fix and so far is the ONLY video ive seen regards to the 35xx H VERSION. SO thumbs up JUST for being the only one thanks guy
You are the man! Thanks for this easy to follow tutorial. My Anbernic Rg35xx plus died inmediately after using it only for one hour a switching it off. Same problem, just the logo on screen indefinitely. The problem is the bad sd card and the stock OS that comes with the console. I bought a Samsung microsd of 64gb, downloaded a clean firmware (optimised by the reddit community) and I was able to restore everything as nothing happened following your steps. Even I didn't need to open the machine an disconnect the port 🎉 but this is exactly the video that everyone facing the same problem needs. THANKS A LOT!!
Bless, this fixed up my lil console too, Was not expecting it to be this significant of a hastle, theyve updated it from a google drive folder to that of a mega link which means downloading one at a time was required unless you dont want to download another app; what a mess! Your guide was direct and straightforward. I lost a few game saves but its nothing a few hardcore nights of Sonic Adventure wont fix. Thanks again!!
Same thing happened to me. Also happened with my Anbernic 353VS. These companies need to stop using Micro SD cards that are absolute garbage. With the 353VS I just installed ARK OS and my roms on a good Sandisk card. With the RG35XX H, I used Rufus to clone the original SD card to a Sandisk Extreme card. Worked like a charm! Hoping ARK OS or Garlic OS(which I've heard good things about) will develop an OS version for the 35XX H, as I really love this form factor.
THANK YOU. This was the exact problem I was having, and your video finally helped me revive the 35XX H I've been trying to set up for my father for his birthday. He's gonna be amped to play Pac Man, Tetris, etc. and I appreciate you helping me to unbrick this thing!
seriously thank you so much for uploading this! wasn't able to get pass that loading screen for 2 weeks, followed this video and now my device is working again =]
I know this is 8 months old but I just bought this device and I preemptively got an microSD and the reader. This video is the most helpful thing ever. thx bro
@@shanecraigtech Hopeful i fix it before you get to my comment but when i Do this there are no roms and it thinks the card only has 2gb? What did i do wrong or where to go from here?
I love the shade you threw at anbernic for using Google drive haha. If they didn't have such sketchy SD cards, you wouldn't have to roast them in the first place!
Thank you so much for this. Had the same static logo on my screen and had ordered a 128 card with this handheld planning on doing this and hoping it didnt brick before i got around to it only to pour hours into getting to victory road in Fire Red only to have this happen. Thankfully the card wasnt too shot to be able to salvage my saves but it encouraged me to flash my 128g card and this video was very helpful. Appreciate the breakdown. Love this handheld and am now feeling a lot better about its stability with a decent card.
I got this issue also with a sandisk sd card and found one solution for me. Easy plug in your sd card to your Windows PC and use the repair tool in Windows to check the sd card. After it is finished, plug the sd card back to the device and boot up normally. Works fine for me. Greetings from Germany 😉
my card bricked within 24 hours, wasn't aware of this problem so wasn't prepared. Downloaded the Koricki/Batocera lite build for the 35XX H/Plus, and loaded it onto a quality sandisk xtreme 512 card, and works fine.
Did you do all of this on one SD card? When I am flashing the Koricki/Batocera lite build onto my 128GB card - it is messing up the partitions. It’ll show “1GB of 4GB available”, and the OS seems to be flashed okay, but the rest of the storage is locked in a weird hidden partition. Have you ever encountered this issue??
@@AstroToad626 yes I eventually figured it out and I think it was an SD format issue :) What everyone says is true - always buy a new SD card, and before you do anything else format it to “FAT32”. Thanks for the help! Since this initial comment, I’m a whole expert now. Just a couple days ago I bought and hacked into a 3DS 😂
You are a hero. Mine has been bricked for a week. I downloaded the files from Anbernic and had the exact same issue you did. I can't wait to try what you did to it this weekend.
I actually put mine away and was determined to not use it until custom firmware released because the update process is so god awful, then a couple weeks back I stumbled upon a few redditors who figured out and now I’ve not put it down since. Lol
I too have bricked my device ): To sum it up, I erased the original SD card (on accident) & my new SD card. So both have been erased & now I’m starting from scratch again. (Cards are not readable on my computer now, only can been seen in disk management, not windows) What really messed me up is when I found out copying your image file makes your new SD card cap out at the original SD capacity . (So my 128gb was only saying it had 64GB available) This caused me to reformat my new card (I wanted all my space available) but now it just stays on the anbernic screen when I input the card into the device. Gonna try this out when I get my replacement SD card. Hopefully it works /:
@@YounggJedi have you tried just giving the sd card a new drive path? If it’s showing up in disk management but not in file manager or windows it may just need to be renamed
For anybody that is weary about if this tutorial works or not , it WORKS. After countless downloads & tutorials, I finally I followed this video step by step (got a new 64GB SanDisk SD card) flashed the image, and like magic my device is unbricked! I had to come back & say thank you. I appreciate the help, I had to start from scratch again because I accidentally deleted both of my SD cards with no data in them lol
@@joaopedrobraga9462 I’m pretty sure it was the updated version. Since this video is a bit old. But if you follow his steps , you should get it to work. The firmware that is on the Anbernic site works
What if the 7Zip is not working? I have an RG35XX+ and Am currently trying to put these files on a SanDisk 64gb MicroUSB. I have all the files downloaded, and then I extract them to a 7zip, but when I try and port them using RUFUS, there is no file/ no compatible file for Rufus to use. Any recommendations?
I copied my saves over to the new SD card, but when I boot say Pokemon Emerald for example it doesn't show. I checked folders to make sure it was the proper one, etc. I do have a little experience of the basics from jailbreaking consoles and emulation, but I think maybe I missed something or idk..
Watched some videos and read some articles on how to clone to a new, better sd card. I was starting to think that some of my stuff may be defective.. Only your guide actually helped me. Thank you sir.
I have 2 of these on the way (ones a gift) and I’ve taken your warning and got everything set up ready to do this as soon as they get here lol, thank you for the guide!
Fantastic walkthrough on how to switch the SD card on this handheld. There's a newer update that worked with mine and it immediately solved all issues. I would actually recommend the handheld. For the price, it plays very nicely (now that the issues have been fixed with a new SD card).
thanks,your video helped me when dealing with the same issue. replaced the sd card,also had to open it. and don't make my mistake, use the second port for charging as labeled. I accidently used otg1 and thought the battery was dead. I will also say, take a look at your sd cards folder after putting the image on it, and make sure none of the characters look weird, and check for errors , if it does, it can prevent the handheld from even booting.
What a lifesaver they did add now the whole image file, I just used rufus to copy it thank you for the video. It fixed my save slot issue, for some reason it stopped working.
I bought one of these, and umm'd an arr'd about a 2nd replacement microSD card for the OS, thank you for this, I feel it has completely validated my $6 purchase for a 32gb microSD card (Sandisk I think).
Dude thanks so much, I had heard that the card it comes with sucks so I bought another but for the life of me I could not find any actual instructions that walk you through it I'm a visual learner so even if someone told me exactly how I'd still be like what because I've never done it before. This was the only video I could find to teach me how to do it properly from the website and with rufus and with a new sd.
Thanks for the guide. I did this with the latest update (240222) since I don't trust the SD card it came with knowing it might brick, it works as well. It's quite annoying though that the 240222 update moved to mega, thanks to VPN I didn't have to wait for that long for it to download.
I am having issues. My Anbernic rg35xxh will not turn on without the stock card in it. But the stock card is trashed. My computer won't read it and the handheld will not read it. Any ideas?
Great video. I just got a RG35XX H. Is everything stored on the SD card then? So if you run into issues, you just flash new firmware/OS to a new SD card and swap it out?
I have a RG353V i already pass all the information of the main sd card 32GB to a new one. Now I want to pass the information of the games and save data to a better sd card it came with 232GB, do i need to follow all the steps of this video. Please help i am new to this is hard to understand 😅
question; im going through the same thing with my xxH, whats the difference of "flashing" the card vs just copying everything from the old card to the new one?
@Shane Craig have you try this same upgrade but with a higher space SD card such as 128GB for example? if you did and you were successful can you share how this was accomplished? I have not been able to extend the remaining space unallocated on the SD card after the reimage, yes your steps works but for 64GB only anything higher it leaves the SD card on that 64GB space only, is there a way to extend the SD card after your steps are completed? Disk management and Mini tool wizard wont allow the extension of the partition.
please make an in-depth tutorial on how to reflash the sd, this was good but i’d love a deeper explanation of what i should /could do since i’ve corrupted a couple cards😅
Might be a dumb question, but what if when I get my system (this week) can I just dump all my files in a folder on my PC, take a better micro SD Card and format it to a FAT32 (I think this is necessary), then drop all the files in the root of the new card, will that work? I assume it's the same as downloading the whole file structure from the internet. I understand he had to do this since his card was corrupted.
I had the same problem that the unit would not start up. The reset didn't help. So i took the back off unpluged the batt. for a few sec. pluged back in and everything worked fine. And it happend again when i couldnt cut it off a differnt time and i did the same thing and it worked. A 1.5 mm. allen wrench is all it takes to remove the screws.
could you possibly make an updated video? anbernic has moved the files over from docs, so all 9 are in 1 folder. I have noooo idea how to extract the .z01 folder.
I need immediate help, I followed your exact steps and my BRAND NEW microSD card went from 128GB capacity down to 4, PLEASE tell me wtf I need to do because this is the 4th SD card that this Rufus program has done this to.
You definitely didn't follow my exact steps, because I didn't use a 128GB card and the image clearly says it's for a 64GB card lol. Open up disk management and you should be able to delete the partitions it created and start fresh. Partitions on a drive aren't permanent, nothing that can't be reversed. I haven't looked into what would happen if you use a larger card, but in theory, it should just have a bunch of space left as unallocated. You can expand that partition if you know what you're doing, but it's hard to say what you should do based off so little information.
@@shanecraigtech After a few hours of troubleshooting, I figured it out, it turns out when you image the card, if there's significantly more space than required for the image, it will limit the space down to the minimum required for the image. So when I went into disk management I found the remaining 109GB left that were labeled "Unallocated". Appreciate your insight, hopefully this thread helps others who run into the same issue.
Sorry btw if it came across as me blaming you, I wasn't at all lol I was just about to put my head through the wall from the amount of troubleshooting I did between yesterday and today lol
Will doing this also fix the issues I'm having with it loading certain consoles? Mine is fine with a lot of stuff but won't load up Dreamcast, N64, or various others... just has the loading circle and the "exiting".
Yes! This happen on my RG35XX H too, I charge it overnight though My official Switch Dock. When I open it is stuck at the ANBERNIC logo. Offical said need to open it and unplug the battery. It can be fix. But it happen again today! Someone said is about the charger too. Is not only about the SD Card. Also need to update the firmware.
Came here for an issue with my rg35xx plus. The fireware update is now one file to download, no more drive however, when I unzip using WinRAR and go to flash it using BalenaEtcher the unzipped file is coming back as corrupt. Any thoughts on fixes???
I did everything by your steps. except the website doesnt use google drive anymore. I downloaded the most recent firmware it gave me, and its charging right now, it sems like it will work (knock on wood) but I went through the folders and noticed that all the console folders are there. But none of the actual games are. any tips?
I bought a 128 GB Micro SD card today as a precaution. I plan on copying everything to the new card. I'm worried the card that came with the device could fail at anytime. Only had it for about a fortnight and have already experienced PSP save files getting corrupted.
I had that happend to my 35xx plus, I just re-flashed to a new sd card and all was well again. the only annoying thing is that I had to redo all my settings again. But re-flash is an easy fix.👍
I’ve been struggling can I use any flash drive to flash it or does it have to be a certain one? Trying to follow this step by step and for some reason once I get everything on the SD card and plug it into the system it won’t even turn on
Regarding the issue of downloading all at the same time. You can do it but you have to remove the "-00X" after the 7z extension. So, for example, a file named xxx.7z-001.002 will become xxx.7z.002
Yes that’s right my rg35xxh which I bought recently it’s not turning on I think I should format my 64GB SD card and install firmware and also backup my roms and files
so i'm at a weird point with this, when i try to format withh rufus, it formts super quick and then makes the micro sd unusable and says the disk is not accessible.
Mine did this and opening it up and giving the ol unplug it and plug it back in (the battery) worked. Still transferring to another card but in a pinch that did work for me
I’m still having issues. I flash the stockOS on a brand new SD card and it just makes all my main storage like 45gb unallocated, and i cant extend it to the main partition or anything, any help??
Hi, I have a question. I happen to have the rg353v (stock) and happen to have the box cover artwork for all my games. Recently idk what I may have done but my ps1 artwork wont show up even when all the other systems are good to go. I noticed I had deleted the original image folder within the main file and so I made a new one naming it 'images'. Please correct me on what Im doing wrong lol.
My 35xx stopped working turned out the cheap SD card completely died. So I bought a decent replacement and downloaded software and roms from ambernic . I've managed to flash the operating software onto the device so it boots up again no problem. My issue is adding the roms. I tried copying them onto the device but they won't work.I assume I am copying them in the wrong manner onto the device? I've noticed now when I plug the SD card into my laptop the visible size of 64gb card is 10mb? If I look at the card in partition wizard it makes the rest of the card visible but not on my PC. Partition wizard shows the ROM folder etc but it's not visible on my PC
Hi, i flashed the wrong ambernic firmware. Im using rg35xx h but flashed a rg35xx firmware instead. I tried reflashing with rg35xx H firmware and encountered an error. I paniced and tried reformatting but it doesnt work, i ended up deleting the partition and now my card doesnt work. How do i reformat my unallocated storage card 😢
Does it *HAVE to be a 64gb card? Mine bricked and I bought a 256gb card cuz it was on sale on Amazon lol intended to put it solely to use for my RG35XX H and need to do this whole reflashing process
Someone on Reddit said that copying files from the SD card that comes with Anbernic devices to a new SD card is not wise because those files are corrupted, and now whatever storage device you transfer the files to will now be corrupted as well.
@@shanecraigtech What about copying the files that were on the original Anbernic SD card to the new card? Such as some of the original roms and BIOS files?
Thanks heaps for this, exact same thing happened with mine after charging and was freaking out as I've only had it 2 days.. Somehow it corrupted the partition while charging. So I think from now on to be extra safe I'll remove the sd cards while charging.
so I did this with a 64 gig sd card and the fat file size is only max 4g.. which doesnt leave much rooms for roms and it wont let me increase the partition size.. help plz
How do you transfer the save files i transferred everything from my old sd card to the new one saves included but my Pokemon tells me to start a new game
Hi, great video! Thank you for the upload. I am running into an issue where when I use rufus to put the OS on, it says my cards capacity is 2gb and not 256 - any idea what I am doing wrong?
almost exactly what happened to me. guess i left it on, batteries drained, and got to the boot and not past it. found old sd card, did the image, then popped it in and it loaded. didn't have to open the unit up though. wow interesting. many thanks for the video, saved me some time.
I really appreciate the helpful video it has taught me a bit about files and how to open them. However, i am still having issues. Rufis comes up with an error saying it can't assign an letter to the card?
What dize sd card should i get for mibe? I juat ordered the Anbernic RG40XX H with a 256 sd card I plan to copy both rhe 64 and the 256 files to my pc as a backup and buy new samsung sd cards for it. Would you happen to know the biggest the system recognizes?
The only error I’m having is that once Rufus formats it . The ST card is not visible on the PC so I go onto disc management and give the SD card a letter and then it pops up but after it pops up it says it only has 4 GB on it when it’s supposed to have 128 it has the files that you see anbernic, saves, Roma etc . But for some reason it does something to the sd that makes it only have 4gb total storage . Please help lol
Bro, i went through all this stuff almost step by step. thank you so much for making this vid! every curveball i got trying to fix my xxH, you warned beforehand and it kept me calm, and your directions were great. took a while but i fixed it, and its updated too. thank god! this is too sweet a device to not use because its stuck on the anbernic logo
Ah, I love reading stuff like this. Thanks for the super and I'm glad the video helped!
This is one of the few tutorials I've seen about switching over to a new SD card, so thank you very much!
Dude, I had literally given up on everything until I saw your video, thank you very much. You already gained a subscriber, you saved me an annoying procedure.
Glad to hear it and thanks!
I didnt give up i assumed the hardware was legit, however, I didnt know if i was able to fix the software problem thanks to this video i was able too.
So what I got from this is: As soon as possible, grab a new and better SD card and copy the built-in card’s files and folders to the new one; and then make the ‘original’ card a blank one for expanded storage, if not put into the trash.
Will just copying the folders over to the new card and plug/play will work.
@@beanscuz11 No, It can't only copy the file to the new card.
@@beanscuz11didn't work for me
Could you link an easy way to clone an ss card to another card on a MacBook Pro from 2011? lol. Cloning a card is the one thing I wish I could do easier but I have limited tech.
I'm the latest victim of the 64gb card with no name.
despite my internet sucking the life of me cause im super inpatient, this totally fix and so far is the ONLY video ive seen regards to the 35xx H VERSION. SO thumbs up JUST for being the only one thanks guy
Thanks! This helped me be a hero to my kids. Worked perfectly
Glad it helped! Thank you!
You are the man! Thanks for this easy to follow tutorial. My Anbernic Rg35xx plus died inmediately after using it only for one hour a switching it off. Same problem, just the logo on screen indefinitely. The problem is the bad sd card and the stock OS that comes with the console. I bought a Samsung microsd of 64gb, downloaded a clean firmware (optimised by the reddit community) and I was able to restore everything as nothing happened following your steps. Even I didn't need to open the machine an disconnect the port 🎉 but this is exactly the video that everyone facing the same problem needs. THANKS A LOT!!
hey where did you manage to find that clean firmware? I'm trying to do the same thing to mine right now
Sammmmme we need the hookup!
Bless, this fixed up my lil console too,
Was not expecting it to be this significant of a hastle, theyve updated it from a google drive folder to that of a mega link which means downloading one at a time was required unless you dont want to download another app; what a mess! Your guide was direct and straightforward. I lost a few game saves but its nothing a few hardcore nights of Sonic Adventure wont fix. Thanks again!!
Thank you for the info! Followed your progress step by step. it worked on my RG40XX-H
Same thing happened to me. Also happened with my Anbernic 353VS. These companies need to stop using Micro SD cards that are absolute garbage. With the 353VS I just installed ARK OS and my roms on a good Sandisk card. With the RG35XX H, I used Rufus to clone the original SD card to a Sandisk Extreme card. Worked like a charm! Hoping ARK OS or Garlic OS(which I've heard good things about) will develop an OS version for the 35XX H, as I really love this form factor.
I got my RG35XX H this week and it came to me bricked. This video was easy to follow and got me up and running, Thanks!
THANK YOU. This was the exact problem I was having, and your video finally helped me revive the 35XX H I've been trying to set up for my father for his birthday. He's gonna be amped to play Pac Man, Tetris, etc. and I appreciate you helping me to unbrick this thing!
seriously thank you so much for uploading this! wasn't able to get pass that loading screen for 2 weeks, followed this video and now my device is working again =]
Glad I could help!
I know this is 8 months old but I just bought this device and I preemptively got an microSD and the reader. This video is the most helpful thing ever. thx bro
Glad I could help!
@@shanecraigtech Hopeful i fix it before you get to my comment but when i Do this there are no roms and it thinks the card only has 2gb? What did i do wrong or where to go from here?
@@Tyler_Rogers I ran into this exact same problem with a 256gb card - it is saying I only have 2gb. Did you ever find a fix?
I love the shade you threw at anbernic for using Google drive haha. If they didn't have such sketchy SD cards, you wouldn't have to roast them in the first place!
Video was a game changer! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this. Had the same static logo on my screen and had ordered a 128 card with this handheld planning on doing this and hoping it didnt brick before i got around to it only to pour hours into getting to victory road in Fire Red only to have this happen. Thankfully the card wasnt too shot to be able to salvage my saves but it encouraged me to flash my 128g card and this video was very helpful. Appreciate the breakdown. Love this handheld and am now feeling a lot better about its stability with a decent card.
Did your 128GB SD card reformat to a 64GB state? Or does it show that you have all 128GB available?
I got this issue also with a sandisk sd card and found one solution for me. Easy plug in your sd card to your Windows PC and use the repair tool in Windows to check the sd card. After it is finished, plug the sd card back to the device and boot up normally. Works fine for me. Greetings from Germany 😉
I'm going to try this first! Danke!
my card bricked within 24 hours, wasn't aware of this problem so wasn't prepared. Downloaded the Koricki/Batocera lite build for the 35XX H/Plus, and loaded it onto a quality sandisk xtreme 512 card, and works fine.
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Did you do all of this on one SD card?
When I am flashing the Koricki/Batocera lite build onto my 128GB card - it is messing up the partitions. It’ll show “1GB of 4GB available”, and the OS seems to be flashed okay, but the rest of the storage is locked in a weird hidden partition.
Have you ever encountered this issue??
@olliepoplol5894 did you format your new SD card with something like rufus?
@@AstroToad626 yes I eventually figured it out and I think it was an SD format issue :)
What everyone says is true - always buy a new SD card, and before you do anything else format it to “FAT32”. Thanks for the help!
Since this initial comment, I’m a whole expert now. Just a couple days ago I bought and hacked into a 3DS 😂
You are a hero. Mine has been bricked for a week. I downloaded the files from Anbernic and had the exact same issue you did. I can't wait to try what you did to it this weekend.
I actually put mine away and was determined to not use it until custom firmware released because the update process is so god awful, then a couple weeks back I stumbled upon a few redditors who figured out and now I’ve not put it down since. Lol
@@seanbrent4245what did you find on Reddit? My system bricked and I just want to play some games damnit!
I too have bricked my device ):
To sum it up, I erased the original SD card (on accident) & my new SD card. So both have been erased & now I’m starting from scratch again. (Cards are not readable on my computer now, only can been seen in disk management, not windows)
What really messed me up is when I found out copying your image file makes your new SD card cap out at the original SD capacity . (So my 128gb was only saying it had 64GB available)
This caused me to reformat my new card (I wanted all my space available) but now it just stays on the anbernic screen when I input the card into the device. Gonna try this out when I get my replacement SD card. Hopefully it works /:
@@YounggJedi have you tried just giving the sd card a new drive path? If it’s showing up in disk management but not in file manager or windows it may just need to be renamed
@YounggJedi My main SD card is a 256 and it only registers as a 16gb or whatever the original one was. ☹️
Still rocking stock OS and this guide helped get me updated to latest version.
For anybody that is weary about if this tutorial works or not , it WORKS.
After countless downloads & tutorials, I finally I followed this video step by step
(got a new 64GB SanDisk SD card) flashed the image, and like magic my device is unbricked! I had to come back & say thank you. I appreciate the help, I had to start from scratch again because I accidentally deleted both of my SD cards with no data in them lol
hey dude did you download the updated firmware? or the exact one he showed in the video?
@@joaopedrobraga9462 I’m pretty sure it was the updated version. Since this video is a bit old. But if you follow his steps , you should get it to work. The firmware that is on the Anbernic site works
Just got one and same thing happened to me. Installed Batocera on a better SD card and it's working like a champ.
What if the 7Zip is not working? I have an RG35XX+ and Am currently trying to put these files on a SanDisk 64gb MicroUSB. I have all the files downloaded, and then I extract them to a 7zip, but when I try and port them using RUFUS, there is no file/ no compatible file for Rufus to use. Any recommendations?
I copied my saves over to the new SD card, but when I boot say Pokemon Emerald for example it doesn't show. I checked folders to make sure it was the proper one, etc. I do have a little experience of the basics from jailbreaking consoles and emulation, but I think maybe I missed something or idk..
Watched some videos and read some articles on how to clone to a new, better sd card. I was starting to think that some of my stuff may be defective.. Only your guide actually helped me. Thank you sir.
Great to hear!
I cannot get the files from google drive to dl. Says it exceeded download quota….
I have 2 of these on the way (ones a gift) and I’ve taken your warning and got everything set up ready to do this as soon as they get here lol, thank you for the guide!
Fantastic walkthrough on how to switch the SD card on this handheld. There's a newer update that worked with mine and it immediately solved all issues. I would actually recommend the handheld. For the price, it plays very nicely (now that the issues have been fixed with a new SD card).
thanks,your video helped me when dealing with the same issue. replaced the sd card,also had to open it. and don't make my mistake, use the second port for charging as labeled. I accidently used otg1 and thought the battery was dead. I will also say, take a look at your sd cards folder after putting the image on it, and make sure none of the characters look weird, and check for errors , if it does, it can prevent the handheld from even booting.
What a lifesaver they did add now the whole image file, I just used rufus to copy it thank you for the video. It fixed my save slot issue, for some reason it stopped working.
I bought one of these, and umm'd an arr'd about a 2nd replacement microSD card for the OS, thank you for this, I feel it has completely validated my $6 purchase for a 32gb microSD card (Sandisk I think).
Exactly what I needed. Best tutorial I have found for this problem. Thank you so much!
Dude thanks so much, I had heard that the card it comes with sucks so I bought another but for the life of me I could not find any actual instructions that walk you through it I'm a visual learner so even if someone told me exactly how I'd still be like what because I've never done it before. This was the only video I could find to teach me how to do it properly from the website and with rufus and with a new sd.
Thanks for the guide. I did this with the latest update (240222) since I don't trust the SD card it came with knowing it might brick, it works as well. It's quite annoying though that the 240222 update moved to mega, thanks to VPN I didn't have to wait for that long for it to download.
Can't wait to see the review. I love tinkering with stuff like this.
Maybe you'll enjoy it more than I did making it lol
I am having issues. My Anbernic rg35xxh will not turn on without the stock card in it. But the stock card is trashed. My computer won't read it and the handheld will not read it. Any ideas?
same things to me
Great video. I just got a RG35XX H. Is everything stored on the SD card then? So if you run into issues, you just flash new firmware/OS to a new SD card and swap it out?
thank you so much for this video! i was able to fix the console easily after struggling to fix it on my own. it seems to consistently power on now.
Sometimes you can just fix an unreadable SD card with the chkdsk /f drive_letter: command. Worth trying before you try to reflash. No harm done.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH IT WORKED! IT WAS JUST A LOT OF HOURS OF WAITING TO DOWNLOAD BUT IT WORKED!!!!
I have a RG353V i already pass all the information of the main sd card 32GB to a new one. Now I want to pass the information of the games and save data to a better sd card it came with 232GB, do i need to follow all the steps of this video. Please help i am new to this is hard to understand 😅
Thnx for the video bro, it was very inhandy, had the same issue with my anbernic device now its perfectly functional, thnx for the help
question;
im going through the same thing with my xxH, whats the difference of "flashing" the card vs just copying everything from the old card to the new one?
You can't only copy the file to the new card, Because you need to flashing it as a boot drive first.
@Shane Craig have you try this same upgrade but with a higher space SD card such as 128GB for example? if you did and you were successful can you share how this was accomplished? I have not been able to extend the remaining space unallocated on the SD card after the reimage, yes your steps works but for 64GB only anything higher it leaves the SD card on that 64GB space only, is there a way to extend the SD card after your steps are completed? Disk management and Mini tool wizard wont allow the extension of the partition.
Thanks mate. that nailed it
please make an in-depth tutorial on how to reflash the sd, this was good but i’d love a deeper explanation of what i should /could do since i’ve corrupted a couple cards😅
Had the same issue and a firmware update helped using the same original SD card that the handheld came with.
Might be a dumb question, but what if when I get my system (this week) can I just dump all my files in a folder on my PC, take a better micro SD Card and format it to a FAT32 (I think this is necessary), then drop all the files in the root of the new card, will that work? I assume it's the same as downloading the whole file structure from the internet. I understand he had to do this since his card was corrupted.
Same question
I had the same problem that the unit would not start up. The reset didn't help. So i took the back off unpluged the batt. for a few sec. pluged back in and everything worked fine. And it happend again when i couldnt cut it off a differnt time and i did the same thing and it worked. A 1.5 mm. allen wrench is all it takes to remove the screws.
Were you also using the sd card that it came with?
Yes
Thank you for this, good explanation on how to just move the a better and more reliable mSD card in general! :)
thank you. mine needed to be reset. good call unplugging the battery that was my idea but i needed someone to agree that it was, in fact a good idea.
could you possibly make an updated video? anbernic has moved the files over from docs, so all 9 are in 1 folder. I have noooo idea how to extract the .z01 folder.
I need immediate help, I followed your exact steps and my BRAND NEW microSD card went from 128GB capacity down to 4, PLEASE tell me wtf I need to do because this is the 4th SD card that this Rufus program has done this to.
You definitely didn't follow my exact steps, because I didn't use a 128GB card and the image clearly says it's for a 64GB card lol. Open up disk management and you should be able to delete the partitions it created and start fresh. Partitions on a drive aren't permanent, nothing that can't be reversed. I haven't looked into what would happen if you use a larger card, but in theory, it should just have a bunch of space left as unallocated. You can expand that partition if you know what you're doing, but it's hard to say what you should do based off so little information.
@@shanecraigtech After a few hours of troubleshooting, I figured it out, it turns out when you image the card, if there's significantly more space than required for the image, it will limit the space down to the minimum required for the image. So when I went into disk management I found the remaining 109GB left that were labeled "Unallocated". Appreciate your insight, hopefully this thread helps others who run into the same issue.
Sorry btw if it came across as me blaming you, I wasn't at all lol I was just about to put my head through the wall from the amount of troubleshooting I did between yesterday and today lol
Will doing this also fix the issues I'm having with it loading certain consoles? Mine is fine with a lot of stuff but won't load up Dreamcast, N64, or various others... just has the loading circle and the "exiting".
Me too, were you able to solve this problem where the exit screen appears directly after opening the game?
Yes! This happen on my RG35XX H too,
I charge it overnight though My official Switch Dock. When I open it is stuck at the ANBERNIC logo.
Offical said need to open it and unplug the battery. It can be fix.
But it happen again today!
Someone said is about the charger too. Is not only about the SD Card. Also need to update the firmware.
Watched about ten times trying to figure out what I did wrong, it's just a pain to get the image. Thank you so much!
Came here for an issue with my rg35xx plus. The fireware update is now one file to download, no more drive however, when I unzip using WinRAR and go to flash it using BalenaEtcher the unzipped file is coming back as corrupt.
Any thoughts on fixes???
Shane m8. U are a star. Am trying this tonight on holiday with rg40xxh frozen. Wish me luck 😅
I did everything by your steps. except the website doesnt use google drive anymore. I downloaded the most recent firmware it gave me, and its charging right now, it sems like it will work (knock on wood) but I went through the folders and noticed that all the console folders are there. But none of the actual games are. any tips?
i have the exact same problem with my rg35xx plus. can i use a larger sd card size like 256 gb? what's the best brand for this?
I bought a 128 GB Micro SD card today as a precaution. I plan on copying everything to the new card.
I'm worried the card that came with the device could fail at anytime. Only had it for about a fortnight and have already experienced PSP save files getting corrupted.
I had that happend to my 35xx plus, I just re-flashed to a new sd card and all was well again. the only annoying thing is that I had to redo all my settings again. But re-flash is an easy fix.👍
Could You help me please?? I hace got the sale problem as You!!
You're a star ✨Saved a lot of us!
Is it possible to just buy a card with the operating system preloaded and not have to manually do all this?
I’ve been struggling can I use any flash drive to flash it or does it have to be a certain one? Trying to follow this step by step and for some reason once I get everything on the SD card and plug it into the system it won’t even turn on
Regarding the issue of downloading all at the same time. You can do it but you have to remove the "-00X" after the 7z extension. So, for example, a file named xxx.7z-001.002 will become xxx.7z.002
Yes that’s right my rg35xxh which I bought recently it’s not turning on I think I should format my 64GB SD card and install firmware and also backup my roms and files
This exact same thing happened to me! Thanks for uploading this omg.
Excellent video! Very easy to understand! What type of micro SD card can I use in the “Anbernic RG35XX H”?
I just aim for known decent brands if I can
so i'm at a weird point with this, when i try to format withh rufus, it formts super quick and then makes the micro sd unusable and says the disk is not accessible.
Thanks!
Thanks for the super!
Mine did this and opening it up and giving the ol unplug it and plug it back in (the battery) worked. Still transferring to another card but in a pinch that did work for me
Problem on boot title Screen RG40xx h not loading... jsut i see anbernic.... solution ?
Had exact same issue. Thanks for the video. Hopefully this works.
This is the exact handheld that I was wondering if my sd firmware was bad or thr handheld itself
I’m still having issues. I flash the stockOS on a brand new SD card and it just makes all my main storage like 45gb unallocated, and i cant extend it to the main partition or anything, any help??
Hi, I have a question. I happen to have the rg353v (stock) and happen to have the box cover artwork for all my games. Recently idk what I may have done but my ps1 artwork wont show up even when all the other systems are good to go. I noticed I had deleted the original image folder within the main file and so I made a new one naming it 'images'. Please correct me on what Im doing wrong lol.
Having trouble getting the Rufus download to run any other programs?
My 35xx stopped working turned out the cheap SD card completely died. So I bought a decent replacement and downloaded software and roms from ambernic . I've managed to flash the operating software onto the device so it boots up again no problem. My issue is adding the roms. I tried copying them onto the device but they won't work.I assume I am copying them in the wrong manner onto the device? I've noticed now when I plug the SD card into my laptop the visible size of 64gb card is 10mb? If I look at the card in partition wizard it makes the rest of the card visible but not on my PC. Partition wizard shows the ROM folder etc but it's not visible on my PC
Hi, could this procedure also be good for the RG556?
Hi, i flashed the wrong ambernic firmware. Im using rg35xx h but flashed a rg35xx firmware instead. I tried reflashing with rg35xx H firmware and encountered an error. I paniced and tried reformatting but it doesnt work, i ended up deleting the partition and now my card doesnt work. How do i reformat my unallocated storage card 😢
Does it *HAVE to be a 64gb card? Mine bricked and I bought a 256gb card cuz it was on sale on Amazon lol intended to put it solely to use for my RG35XX H and need to do this whole reflashing process
Someone on Reddit said that copying files from the SD card that comes with Anbernic devices to a new SD card is not wise because those files are corrupted, and now whatever storage device you transfer the files to will now be corrupted as well.
Copying your roms and saves is not going to corrupt an SD card that isn't garbage already.
@@shanecraigtech What about copying the files that were on the original Anbernic SD card to the new card? Such as some of the original roms and BIOS files?
I enjoyed this video. Thanks for the help!
Thanks heaps for this, exact same thing happened with mine after charging and was freaking out as I've only had it 2 days.. Somehow it corrupted the partition while charging. So I think from now on to be extra safe I'll remove the sd cards while charging.
so I did this with a 64 gig sd card and the fat file size is only max 4g.. which doesnt leave much rooms for roms and it wont let me increase the partition size.. help plz
Yeah I don’t understand this at all either - let me know if you were able to figure this out
@@olliepoplol5894 Did you guys figure this out?
How do you transfer the save files i transferred everything from my old sd card to the new one saves included but my Pokemon tells me to start a new game
Can you do one of these for the Super Console X from Kinhank running Emuelec.
All of the videos I've found are not in plain spoken English.
I had someone copy from the old SD to the new one. It does't work clearly how can I fix this for someone who isn't tech savvy? Also I have a Mac
Hi, great video! Thank you for the upload. I am running into an issue where when I use rufus to put the OS on, it says my cards capacity is 2gb and not 256 - any idea what I am doing wrong?
almost exactly what happened to me. guess i left it on, batteries drained, and got to the boot and not past it. found old sd card, did the image, then popped it in and it loaded. didn't have to open the unit up though. wow interesting. many thanks for the video, saved me some time.
I really appreciate the helpful video it has taught me a bit about files and how to open them. However, i am still having issues. Rufis comes up with an error saying it can't assign an letter to the card?
What dize sd card should i get for mibe? I juat ordered the Anbernic RG40XX H with a 256 sd card
I plan to copy both rhe 64 and the 256 files to my pc as a backup and buy new samsung sd cards for it. Would you happen to know the biggest the system recognizes?
Question do you have to clone the sd card that comes with the system ? Or can you just insert a new brand name sd card and it’ll work fine ?
Is there any way to get the save files transferred to the new sd card? I’ve tried several ways and can’t seem to get my save file over
Thumbs up great video. Reminds me of hiw it goes when im doing SD card stuff that should be straightforward and easy but just isnt at all. Cheers
The only error I’m having is that once Rufus formats it . The ST card is not visible on the PC so I go onto disc management and give the SD card a letter and then it pops up but after it pops up it says it only has 4 GB on it when it’s supposed to have 128 it has the files that you see anbernic, saves, Roma etc . But for some reason it does something to the sd that makes it only have 4gb total storage . Please help lol
Where can I purchase one of these SD cards that is already through the process in which you're describing
Bro do u know how to create art box tutorial? for STOCK OS latest version for RG35XX PLUS
I need to make image for all my rooms !
thanks