GRLife Pro 2.0 update: changing films is faster
Some of you told us the 2.0 film page still felt slow. This update speeds up every step of changing films, and renames a MENU row that was easy to misread.
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What changed
- Picking a film is faster: The film goes in the moment you press OK, and the canister’s drop now takes about 0.1 s before you are back to shooting. Closing the interface no longer writes a log to the card first.
- A smoother glide left and right: Films slide to the middle twice as fast.
- Instant group changes: ▲▼ no longer slides and fades the new group in: it is there at once.
- The MENU row is now “GRLife Pro shortcut”: In MENU › GRLife Pro, “OK opens GRLife Pro” was easy to mistake for a way in. It is now “GRLife Pro shortcut”, with the options “OK while shooting” and “Off”. The same switch on the About tab has the new name too.
- Install steps as a flow chart: The 2.0 store page now shows installing as five steps: which files go on the SD card, and the roughly 10 seconds the camera needs on its first start to copy them.
How to update
- Open the GRLife Pro 2.0 store, build again from the official firmware, and download the new ZIP.
- Flash the new firmware as the flow chart on the page shows.
- Copy GRLPRO.GRP from the ZIP’s GRLIFE folder into the GRLIFE folder on the card, replacing the old one. Keep the FILMS.GRF already on the card; don’t overwrite it with the ZIP’s copy, which holds only the five built-in films.
- Turn the camera on and wait about 10 seconds while it copies the new app into the camera.
Replacing only GRLPRO.GRP (steps 3 and 4) already gives you the faster film page; the renamed MENU row and closing without writing to the card come with the new firmware. Still on v1.4x? The same steps take you straight to 2.0.
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