Quoted from Puffdanny:I've hooked up everything(back box to the lockdown bar button)and it usually works fine but sometimes it seems to freeze or lose function. I can start a game and it may happen sometime 1st game sometimes 2nd or 3rd but have had it happen during initial power up. It usually corrects itself after a minute or 3 but I have had it get stuck and only powering down for 10 minutes corrected it so there's no pattern i can detect to it stopping or starting back up.when it happens the back box led stays lit sometimes has only partial like 3-6 light but usually fully lit(pushing button does nothing unless you have a heat ray then it will activate your heat ray in the game but not the led strip),the post lights stay on with default color with no interaction from the slings and the ufo may lose the leds but more often will be lit with 1 led a different color it may change which colors its displaying(slowly and steady color no strobing/flashing)but no interaction. It seems when this happens nothing shows up on wifi but will show up when functioning correctly although I haven't tried to actually connect and change anything. I have some other gi powered mods still connected but I did un ug the connectors on 3 of them and it didn't change anything. Version 1 pre March Lolly.
Yep - we've had a few instances of this happening.
Version 1 Lolly UFO pulls power from the GI, and remains powered during GI dimming sequences using an array of super caps (the 'battery'). This allows the mod to fade nicely with the GI, remain powered independently while the GI is off, and then come back on when power returns. Great in theory, but also introduces a lot of uncertainty - such as how long the GI is off for, when it returns, and what state the controller and reset IC is in when it does. In certain edge case situations, the reset IC and the battery become in lockstep, and only a full battery power down resolves it (what you mentioned above).
The quickest, easiest solution is to disable the battery (remove the white pin jumper marked "BAT"). The will mean the mod will reboot when the GI goes off, instead of fading in and out. Give that a try, and if still having problems, pickup with me over PM and we can dive deeper.