Post by lachlant1984 on Apr 2, 2023 2:18:54 GMT -7
Hi everyone. In late 2021 I was using my 2017 Teddy Ruxpin and the batteries went flat. I changed them, and horror of horrors, Teddy Ruxpin wouldn't work after that. The power would come on and the eyes lit up, but he wouldn't speak or do anything else. Today I decided to try and get him going. I installed fresh batteries but still no joy. The power light comes on and I can turn Bluetooth on. When I turn Bluetooth on the green light flashes and my iPhone can see Teddy and the app can connect. So I concluded something was wrong with either the flash memory or the data on the flash memory. Tonight I connected Teddy to my PC and switched him on. Windows made the USB device connected sound and I saw a device designated as drive F in Windows Explorer. The icon for drive F didn't indicate storage capacity or remaining storage space. I took that as a bad sign. Double clicking on the drive icon displayed an error message F is not accessible. Incorrect Function. Has anyone ever seen an error message like that with a disk drive device? I tried to format the drive and also run an error check but to no avail. So I'd say the flash memory has completely failed. In early 2020 I had an incident where Teddy Ruxpin fell off my desk and hit the window ledge behind it. Teddy wouldn't work after that, turning him on and off did nothing, neither did pressing the reset button. Removal and reinstallation of the batteries brought him back to life. I'm wondering if the fall caused some physical damage somewhere, I wonder if the flash memory chip has started coming off the PCB. I haven't tried to open Teddy up, I may ask my sister's boyfriend to take a look at him, but it's possible it's the end of the line for that Teddy Ruxpin. I was hoping that running an error check might fix things, but no. Clearly the toy is still operating in terms of it's microprocessor, but the flash storage is bad. Hmm.
Thanks everyone.
Thanks everyone.