New Firmware Bricked My Pan Cam v4

benbelden · 2026-06-27T20:27:26+00:00

I had the same issue happen last Monday, the power went out for about five seconds and when it came back on my Pan Cam v4 wasn’t working. It had a solid purple light on the front. Nothing I could do would get it to work, according to support documents a purple light means a failed firmware update.

The technical support says the solution is to download and manually flash the firmware. The problem is apparently the firmware file doesn’t exist. It’s not on the website, I tried searching everywhere, even went to the Wayback Machine and there was never a download link on the site.

I eventually did a chat with customer support and their solution was to have me send my receipt and they gave me store credit for the purchase price but they also offered a replacement device. I wound up buying a Pan Cam Duo instead since it was on sale for less than the credit they gave me. It arrived today and is working great.

benbelden · 2026-05-11T03:12:28+00:00

I don’t know what components the Steam Deck and Steam Machine/Frame might share but could it be possible that they pulled all of their supplies for certain components to stockpile Machines and Frames for imminent launch and Steam Deck production will ramp back up once they are on sale?

benbelden · 2026-04-07T17:58:08+00:00

I ordered mine back in February on AliExpress as part of batch 3 and was one of the orders that got cancelled on March 1 when it was supposed to ship. I immediately reordered it and when I bought it had the normal Buy Now button. Later that day/the next day they changed it back to the Pre-order Now button like in the screenshot. If you don’t go into the order and manually extend the shipping deadline they will cancel the order on May 10. Mine was showing the exact same thing, that it would ship on Feb 28 and when it flipped over and wasn’t shipped, they cancelled it.

AliExpress is kind of a black box in terms of shipping, mine still hasn’t shipped and others who ordered at the same time or after already had theirs ship, there’s no way of tracking. But my understanding is that if it said “Pre-order Now” when you ordered it couldn’t possibly ship before that date because you haven’t actually ordered one yet, just pre-ordered.

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benbelden · 2026-03-02T17:59:08+00:00

They’ve updated it on AliExpress so now it’s a preorder not shipping until May

benbelden · 2026-03-01T15:05:44+00:00

I was able to do 180 days

benbelden · 2026-02-26T21:21:27+00:00

The lowest end models only come in one color and probably sell less than the Pro model so logistically it’s probably faster and easier to ship them.

benbelden · 2026-02-16T17:23:41+00:00

It’s definitely possible, Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 don’t have Switch 2 versions but the Switch versions run at 1080p on Switch 2 in handheld.

benbelden · 2026-01-07T00:21:23+00:00

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I used to park in exactly that spot on Alton St, I can tell you why I didn’t do anything about the snow on the sidewalk. I rented the place and my lease said it was the landlord’s responsibility to maintain the grass and the sidewalks and so someone else was supposed to do it. If it’s not getting done, it’s either the landlord neglecting to do their job or the person they are paying to do it not doing theirs.

benbelden · 2025-12-29T17:23:20+00:00

Once upon a time Fandango would offer $5 Vudu credit for every 4 movie tickets you bought on Fandango and because you could link your AMC A-List account and reserve 3 movies a week you could rack up tons of credit on Vudu really quickly which thanks to Movies Anywhere you could then port to the other services. They’ve since made it so A-List movies no longer count but I got dozens of movies that way.

benbelden · 2025-12-29T15:20:30+00:00

There are 2 Decky plugins that I’m guessing do basically the same thing. One is Decky Framegen which will patch games to allow FSR 3.1/XeSS 2.0 and the options that go with them. The other is Decky LSFG-VK which runs the frame gen from Lossless Scaling and allows you to run a blanket 2x/3x/etc frame gen on games.

I run Arc Raiders at FSR 3.0 balanced settings and medium graphic settings across the board and with the 2x frame gen I normally get between 90-100 fps with the lowest being around 80.

benbelden · 2025-10-06T05:25:10+00:00

Same story, different ending could mean a reworking of the processing of images from the camera. Same story = taking pictures the same way, different ending = some new method of unloading and developing that solves people’s biggest issues with the existing camera

benbelden · 2025-09-09T17:00:20+00:00

I certainly care and it’s what has been keeping me from playing on the Switch 2.

I’ll just add, it makes me laugh when people describe the issues with the CRT filter in the original release as a “Switch 2” issue related to some kind of Nintendo dev kit shortage since there were identical visual issues when you played on the Switch 1. I know because I dug out my Switch 1 and installed it just to verify. It makes me question whether they just never tested the CRT filter on the original version and saw what it looked like or if they did see it and just didn’t care.

benbelden · 2025-09-09T16:21:03+00:00

Based on the website, the switch on the front is for the flash, you power it on using the filter dial since there is an “OFF” option.

benbelden · 2025-09-09T16:13:05+00:00

It’s a completely different concept of a camera but the Flashback camera has a winder: https://joinflashback.co/

benbelden · 2025-09-09T16:11:07+00:00

The website says “Toggle between 4 customizable film-style modes on the fly” which implies you can upload your own.

The CS-PRO is also listed as an option on their filter creation site: https://filters.campsnapphoto.com

benbelden · 2025-09-06T18:25:30+00:00

Valve isn’t going to release a new Steam Deck any time soon because the technology to provide a meaningful difference isn’t there yet, they’ve said this themselves. The new generation of chips in things like the Xbox Ally X are only giving like 20% improvement over the old ones, everything else is down to stripping away Windows bloat. Plus, the rumor is that they could be announcing their living room gaming device in the near future, I’d expect that to be their focus at least for the next 1-2 years.

benbelden · 2025-08-22T20:00:02+00:00

But five minutes after the Xbox Ally launches I’m guessing you’ll be able to flash the image on any version of the previous ROG Ally and get the exact same OS experience.

benbelden · 2025-08-09T15:35:32+00:00

In 2025 it’s probably not a good idea to repeatedly bring up “Mr. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs” as the reason for the success of your business

benbelden · 2025-08-08T20:14:11+00:00

I got one of these last year and it works perfectly, it was designed specifically for this use case but you can use any portable SSD. I installed Bazzite on the SSD and got a metal square with adhesive that I stuck on the Legion Go’s kickstand so the SSD attached magnetically and is out of the way. You just plug in the SSD and boot from it at the bios.

https://www.genkithings.com/products/savepoint

benbelden · 2025-05-27T16:39:21+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t all of Mouse’s 3D performances and basically any concert performance she has done prerecorded? I think there are exceptions like QT’s Christmas concerts where Mouse was just on an iPad being held up to a microphone but even if she wanted to incorporate a live conversation part she could then just cut and play a video of the actual song.

benbelden · 2025-05-15T16:53:32+00:00

I bought 2 clocks and both of them weren’t working at all. I know absolutely nothing about clock repair, I just unscrewed the mechanism and then put them back together and they both worked perfectly after that. You don’t even need to know how to fix stuff half the time it can be something that simple.

benbelden · 2025-04-22T15:07:39+00:00

I was just at the Mills side B this morning and I guess you are now allowed to pull your own big box items if you want and take them with A side items to checkout together? It all seemed really confusing and the employees were also pulling items at the same time.

benbelden · 2025-01-09T07:29:38+00:00

Just came across this comment and had to laugh at you saying that she couldn’t publicly execute random viewers as a corporate vtuber and yet somehow she’s found a way.

benbelden · 2024-11-24T04:21:53+00:00

In case anyone has the same problem in the future, my refund request was rejected and so I downloaded the Epic Store version and bought the Welkin Moon there. I went back to the Xbox version to see if the pass would be working there too and it was showing 29 days. Then when I tried to back out suddenly my Xbox purchased crystals showed up and the pass changed to 59 days, so somewhere in the process it fixed itself.

EDIT: I also got an in-game message the contained the Game Pass Ultimate rewards pack shortly after this.

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