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Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot

Posted by timothy on from the camera-shy dept.

An anonymous reader writes Unfortunately for Raspberry Pi 2 owners who are trying to photograph their devices, ... the Raspberry Pi 2 has been found to be Xenon flash sensitive. Any camera with a Xenon flash aimed at the device is causing the device to freeze for a few seconds before rebooting. The forum thread about the bug is an interesting play-by-play of how the problem was narrowed down.

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  1. Bring out the tinfoil by thue · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am guessing that wrapping it in tinfoil would fix it? I know it works great for stopping the mind-control waves from getting into my head.

    1. Re:Bring out the tinfoil by towermac · · Score: 4, Funny

      AC is a coverup minion for them. Every good consipiracy buff knows that tin indeed blocks the mind control rays, as opposed to aluminum. Which is why they did away with tin foil, and replaced it with aluminum. Go ahead, try to find some tin foil nowadays...

  2. Re:Xenon? Should have used a Xeon. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should have used Silverlight instead of Flash.

  3. OMG! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I took a picture of my Raspberry Pi 2, you'll never believe what happened next!

  4. Enough! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop using Flash, it's a persistent vulnerability, and Youtube has an HTML5 video player now.