I recently purchased a WiPhone from wiphone.io and was having fun for about a couple of hours until I accidentally hit the reboot function and now suddenly it seems that the screen is no longer working properly. Now all it seems to do when I power it up is displays the WiPhone logo and flickers a bit and the colours are wrong and then it just displays a white screen. If I press any number keys I can see the dial screen flicker for a second and sometimes I can see the home screen and menu screen flicker once in a while as well. I’ve successfully flashed the firmware numerous times using the Arduino IDE as well as esptool and it seems as though the firmware of the ESP32 seems to be functioning without any issues that I can tell. The Arduino IDE serial monitor doesn’t seem to show any problems when I have it connected via USB while booting up the WiPhone. From what I can tell, it looks to be a screen issue. Any suggestions to how I might be able to fix this issue would be much appreciated. If there is any more information that you would like me to post please let me know.
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I fixed it!..somehow… Lol
I had been pulling my hair out from trying so many different solutions that made no real difference until one day I tried connecting to a Windows system and ran the Adruino IDE with Arduino device drivers installed in Windows and set up the IDE to be ready for flashing the firmware again and POOF! All I did was connect the device and somehow it booted up normally, installed a firmware update, and voilà! It worked!
I was so happy when this happened and I’ve been having lots of fun tinkering with it ever since! I definitely recommend this product to anyone who be interested in getting one. For me, even just the fact that it’s not nearly advanced enough to run an AI on it was enough to make me want one, but of course the ability to tinker with the software and hardware was certainly another main attraction for sure!
Try this product whether you are looking to ditch the current phones that constantly spy on our every move or even if you just want it as a neat little toy to play around with! 🤓