After going through the setup process the extra time, it showed the menu with all of my games still there, but acted strange – the system menu only had Volume and Home and was missing everything else. I tried to launch the Settings app and it crashed (blocks, “press A to restart”). After restarting, it crashes if I do anything on the launcher screen (press any button other than the lock button or touch the crank. Lock/unlock seems to be the only functionality that still works). Even plugging it into my Mac causes a crash.
I’ve tried holding the power button for 10 seconds, which allows for a few seconds of normal use before the crashing starts again.
The issue sounds similar to some other recent reports Playdate Hard Crash - Not While Playing Game? and Device boot-loop / possible launcher bug? but in my case, neither holding the power button nor deleting the most recently installed game helps anything.
I was able to get to data disk mode by letting it crash, then restart, then using the simulator to boot to data disk. Here are all of the crashlog.txt entries since it started happening. errorlog.txt doesn’t have anything after the first time when it tried to launch the incompatible game.
Crash log
--- crash at 2023/05/13 05:54:53---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:200336a8 r1:20002402 r2:000030d3 r3: 00000002
r12:0000000a lr:0803b2d7 pc:0803cde8 psr: 21000000
cfsr:00000082 hfsr:00000000 mmfar:000c0001 bfar: 000c0001
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 976896
Lua totalbytes=853200 GCdebt=-99752 GCestimate=426693 stacksize=160
--- crash at 2023/05/13 05:55:02---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:00000000 r1:00000000 r2:00030cba r3: 00000000
r12:006d3000 lr:08031207 pc:08030f50 psr: 21000000
cfsr:00008200 hfsr:40000000 mmfar:0034005e bfar: 0034005e
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 518144
Lua totalbytes=0 GCdebt=0 GCestimate=0 stacksize=0
--- crash at 2023/05/13 05:55:18---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:00000000 r1:00000000 r2:00030d01 r3: 00000000
r12:006d3000 lr:08031207 pc:08030f4c psr: 61000000
cfsr:00008200 hfsr:40000000 mmfar:01888380 bfar: 01888380
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 526912
Lua totalbytes=127855967 GCdebt=-127575252 GCestimate=280514 stacksize=42
--- crash at 2023/05/13 05:56:17---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:0801e7a2 r1:00000001 r2:2000269e r3: 00000000
r12:00003fe0 lr:08041777 pc:0803d11c psr: 21000000
cfsr:00008200 hfsr:40000000 mmfar:0034005e bfar: 0034005e
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 519232
Lua totalbytes=0 GCdebt=0 GCestimate=0 stacksize=0
--- crash at 2023/05/13 05:57:51---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:00000000 r1:00000000 r2:00030b23 r3: 00000000
r12:006d3000 lr:08031207 pc:08030f12 psr: 61000000
cfsr:00000082 hfsr:00000000 mmfar:00009100 bfar: 00009100
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 976896
Lua totalbytes=853200 GCdebt=-99752 GCestimate=426693 stacksize=160
--- crash at 2023/05/13 05:58:24---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:2003144c r1:00000000 r2:00001000 r3: 00000400
r12:00000000 lr:08039fdf pc:0803ad88 psr: 81000200
cfsr:00008200 hfsr:40000000 mmfar:0034005e bfar: 0034005e
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 518144
Lua totalbytes=0 GCdebt=0 GCestimate=0 stacksize=0
--- crash at 2023/05/13 05:58:31---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:00000000 r1:00000000 r2:00030c50 r3: 00000000
r12:006d3000 lr:08031207 pc:08030f10 psr: 61000000
cfsr:00008200 hfsr:40000000 mmfar:0034005e bfar: 0034005e
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 520032
Lua totalbytes=0 GCdebt=0 GCestimate=0 stacksize=0
--- crash at 2023/05/13 06:01:39---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:60fe0010 r1:00000000 r2:60fe0410 r3: 60fe01a0
r12:00000005 lr:0801f169 pc:080b2d1a psr: 81000000
cfsr:00008200 hfsr:40000000 mmfar:20333237 bfar: 20333237
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 518528
Lua totalbytes=127856299 GCdebt=-127574088 GCestimate=280386 stacksize=84
--- crash at 2023/05/13 06:03:50---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:00000003 r1:00000001 r2:e000ed00 r3: 00000060
r12:006d3000 lr:08031277 pc:080156e8 psr: 21000000
cfsr:00008200 hfsr:40000000 mmfar:0034005e bfar: 0034005e
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 562656
Lua totalbytes=0 GCdebt=0 GCestimate=0 stacksize=0
--- crash at 2023/05/13 06:04:20---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:00000002 r1:00000000 r2:00000001 r3: 00000050
r12:00003fe0 lr:08047521 pc:08039c64 psr: 61000000
cfsr:00008200 hfsr:40000000 mmfar:5a620154 bfar: 5a620154
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 518144
Lua totalbytes=127856635 GCdebt=-127575288 GCestimate=280514 stacksize=42
--- crash at 2023/05/13 06:04:28---
build:9da6486e9095-1.13.7-release.153702-buildbot
r0:00000000 r1:00000000 r2:00030bf2 r3: 00000000
r12:006d3000 lr:08031207 pc:08030f12 psr: 61000000
cfsr:00008200 hfsr:40000000 mmfar:00390037 bfar: 00390037
rcccsr:00000000
heap allocated: 518144
Lua totalbytes=127856683 GCdebt=-127574096 GCestimate=280354 stacksize=84