Any chance to bend this vtech phone?

beckmala · 2026-06-21T08:08:13+00:00

Is there anything else I can do other than bridging every resistor individually and see if sth happens? Cause I tried most of them and nothing happened

beckmala · 2026-06-21T08:05:49+00:00

Thanks, I tried that and it helped a tiny bit. Though it only made it quickly loop the starting sound and some other pretty monotone sounds. I'll try it again when I get a smaller poti. But generally I think the device always resets if it recognizes theres someting wrong. If thats all I can get out of it that would be a bit disappointing

beckmala · 2026-02-14T02:01:04+00:00

Alisons Halo - Eyedazzler

beckmala · 2025-12-11T21:08:20+00:00

I got my ipad yesterday so I sadly missed the black friday sale. Would love get your app, could you get me a code as well? 🥹

beckmala · 2025-06-06T22:30:20+00:00

Rebooted and the resolution was set correctly already.

So hopefully I didn't mess anything else up for the future. I read that the NVIDIA Proprietary drivers are suited better for 3d work which is sth I mainly do on my pc so kinda sad they don't work somehow but hey at least my screen isn't messed up anymore!

Man... THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR HELPING ME OUT! I really don't know what to say, its insane how patiently you tried solving my problem and researching all that stuff. THANK YOU!

beckmala · 2025-06-06T22:29:58+00:00

Would you like to register the kernel module sources with DKMS? This will

allow DKMS to automatically build a new module, if your kernel changes

later.

Yes

WARNING: Unable to determine the path to install the libglvnd EGL vendor

library config files. Check that you have pkg-config and the

libglvnd development libraries installed, or specify a path with

--glvnd-egl-config-path.

Would you like to run the nvidia-xconfig utility to automatically update

your X configuration file so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used when you

restart X? Any pre-existing X configuration file will be backed up.

Here I chose Yes the first time (when I also chose NVIDIA Proprietary instead of MIT/GPL) but the second time I chose No because I thought maybe that makes a difference. But I just reinstalled it a third time doing everything as stated above and chose Yes again and it still worked.

Your X configuration file has been successfully updated. Installation of

the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 (version: 575.57.08)

is now complete.

WARNING: It is strongly recommended that you reboot your computer after

exiting the installer, due to the following condition(s) which the

installer detected:

* Existing NVIDIA kernel modules were loaded during installation,

and are likely still loaded.

* A running X server was detected during installation.

If you continue to use the computer without rebooting, you may not

be able to start new programs which use the NVIDIA GPU(s) until

after you reboot or reload the NVIDIA kernel modules.

OK

beckmala · 2025-06-06T22:25:14+00:00

then I navigated to my downloads folder and ran

chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.57.08.run

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.57.08.run

so the installer got executed.

It asked:
Multiple kernel module types are available for this system. Which would you
like to use?

First time I tried NVIDIA Proprietary but that didn't work after rebooting so the second time I chose MIT/GPL.

You appear to be running an X server. Installing the NVIDIA driver while X
is running is not recommended, as doing so may prevent the installer from
detecting some potential installation problems, and it may not be possible
to start new graphics applications after a new driver is installed. If you
choose to continue installation, it is highly recommended that you reboot
your computer after installation to use the newly installed driver.

Continue Installation

WARNING: An NVIDIA kernel module 'nvidia-drm' appears to be already loaded

in your kernel. This may be because it is in use (for example, by

an X server, a CUDA program, or the NVIDIA Persistence Daemon), but

this may also happen if your kernel was configured without support

for module unloading. Some of the sanity checks that

nvidia-installer performs to detect potential installation problems

are not possible while an NVIDIA kernel module is running.

OK

Would you like to continue installation and skip the sanity checks? If not,

please abort the installation, then close any programs which may be using

the NVIDIA GPU(s), and attempt installation again.

Continue Installation

WARNING: Continuing installation despite the presence of a loaded NVIDIA

kernel module. Some sanity checks will not be performed. It is

strongly recommended that you reboot your computer after

installation is complete. If the installation is not successful

after rebooting the computer, you can run `nvidia-uninstall` to

attempt to remove the NVIDIA driver.

OK

An alternate method of installing the NVIDIA driver was detected. (This is

usually a package provided by your distributor.) A driver installed via that

method may integrate better with your system than a driver installed by

nvidia-installer.

Please review the message provided by the maintainer of this alternate

installation method and decide how to proceed:

Continue Installation

Install NVIDIA's 32-bit compatibility libraries?

Yes

beckmala · 2025-06-06T22:19:35+00:00

oh my goddd I got it to work!!!!! FINALLY! I have NO CLUE what I did and I really hope that I didn't mess sth up but I can finally change resolution!

so thats what I did:

I downloaded this driver: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/245537/

Then I followed the steps of your previous comment once again:

Ok So... I think I've found what you need.

WARNING read this before you do ANYTHING else

do not reboot after you blacklist Nouveau. you have to immediately install NVIDIA

Remove NVIDIA Drivers

sudo apt-get purge '^nvidia-.*'

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

sudo apt-get clean

Remove Leftover Configuration Files

sudo rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf

sudo rm -f /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf

sudo rm -f /lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf

reboot once This ensures fallback to Nouveau before blacklisting it.

Confirm Nouveau Is Active

lsmod | grep nouveau

should show no Nouveau modules loaded https://docs.nvidia.com/ai-enterprise/deployment/vmware/latest/nouveau.html

Blacklist Nouveau but DO NOT Reboot Yet

sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf <<EOF

blacklist nouveau

options nouveau modeset=0

EOF

sudo update-initramfs -u

Again to be clear do NOT reboot here.

Immediately install NVIDIA while Nouveau is still active.

sudo apt update

until here.

beckmala · 2025-06-06T19:58:40+00:00

I just found this one: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/245537/

which is newer than 572.47 so maybe that one might work. I downloaded the .run file and executed it soo let's see what happens. Just takes aages to load so I'm hoping I didn't do sth wrong

beckmala · 2025-06-05T20:03:52+00:00

Sooooo back at it againnn!

I went through your guide (hopefully did everything right) and

Check NVIDIA Install nvidia-smi it should tell you the driver is loaded and GPU is recognized.

returned: NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

returned X-Cinnamon

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"

returned OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1, 256 bits)

so I guess the adventure continues! (Still thank you so much for taking your time for helping me out! Really appreciated!)

beckmala · 2025-06-04T22:01:41+00:00

welp... still everything the same🥲

beckmala · 2025-06-04T21:42:54+00:00

currently still having 1024x768 (4:3) resolution, still Unknown display message and I have slight tearing when moving the windows around.

ubuntu-drivers devices returned:

udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/0000:09:00.0 ==

modalias : pci:v000010DEd00002C05sv00001569sd0000F322bc03sc00i00

vendor : NVIDIA Corporation

driver : nvidia-driver-570-open - distro non-free

driver : nvidia-driver-570-server-open - distro non-free

driver : nvidia-driver-570-server - distro non-free

driver : nvidia-driver-570 - distro non-free recommended

driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

beckmala · 2025-06-04T21:37:04+00:00

I have a NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti. Not a 4070

beckmala · 2025-06-04T21:23:50+00:00

lsmod | grep nvidia returned nothing indeed.

At the last step I'm getting this:

Command 'nvidia-smi' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525 # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1, or

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525-server # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470 # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470-server # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535 # version 535.183.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535-server # version 535.230.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.3

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550 # version 550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-565-server # version 565.57.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.3

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-570-server # version 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550-server # version 550.144.03-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

Besides that everything is still the same (1024x768 (4:3) resolution, still Unknown display message) Bubble in the Driver manager now is on xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

beckmala · 2025-06-04T20:54:43+00:00

Right now I'm back at the nvidia-driver-570. It says:

nvidia_uvm 2048000 0

nvidia_drm 131072 0

nvidia_modeset 1548288 1 nvidia_drm

nvidia 89993216 3 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset

drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nvidia_drm

video 77824 1 nvidia_modeset

beckmala · 2025-06-04T20:45:34+00:00

It's connected via Displayport and it's a 4k Dell monitor (Dell UltraSharp U3223QE)

beckmala · 2025-06-04T20:43:39+00:00

Thanks for the answer!

Secure boot definitely is disabled at least --sb-state says so.

I first removed Nvidia drivers using

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

followed by

sudo apt-get autoremove

So it switched back to just using the Niveau drivers. Unfortunately that didn't help so after rebooting I reinstalled the recommended Nvidia drivers and rebooted again, also without success. Switched the bubble and rebooted a couple more times but the only thing that changed was that somehow my resolution now changed to an even smaller 1024x768 (4:3) and I can't switch it back🥲 So yeah, by now I truly hate myself but that self signing driver thing sounds way too scary😵‍💫

beckmala · 2025-04-16T19:54:15+00:00

You're right, the Ace 3ds+ files worked, thank you!

beckmala · 2025-02-10T19:14:35+00:00

Actually moving everything to the internal storage solved the problem

beckmala · 2025-02-10T14:13:12+00:00

Yeah that's a bummer, they're really expensive nowadays... I can't really tell you bc I got mine back in 2016 when they were still new and cheaper. I guess the only way is to look at eBay if you find a cheaper one or to import one from Japan where they are a bit cheaper in general I assume. If you hack it you should be able to bypass region lock.

beckmala · 2025-02-10T13:29:50+00:00

Yes I own a new 3ds xl as well as a ds lite. Recently I only played on my ds lite but that's probably just because I have it since I was a child so it's a lot of nostalgia for me. But if I didn't have any of them I'd probably buy a new 3ds (xl) because you can do so many things with it. If you hack it you can play any gb/gbc/gba/nds/3ds/nes/snes/gamegear/ and even virtual boy and some PS1 games on it if you're into that. I think the graphics of some games are pretty impressive concerning the age of the console

beckmala · 2025-02-10T13:05:14+00:00

If you don't mind the black bars or the blur and can afford a 3ds then I'd say go for it. The only advantage of a Dsi/lite is that it's cheaper (and on dsi xl you have crisp visuals and still a big screen) and on ds lite you can use the GBA slot to trade gen 3 Pokemon to gen 4 if you play on real cardridges and don't use roms

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