Sansa® Fuze™

[Samrexx]

Ditto, Ditto, Ditto.  Tried it all. Even had tech support hold my hand thru all the steps. Conclusion. Bricked!. But wait. After reading this forum....Hallalulah!! Praise the LORd!  All it takes is one good whack!!! Back to normal. Thank you Jesus.

[rhapsodist]

Add my name to the list of those for whom whacking the device did the trick.  Like a lot of other people, I tried just about everything.  When I first started getting the white screen, resetting helped for awhile, but the the white screen returned.  It got to the point where nothing helped, and then I found this forum.  I whacked it once on a table, and voilâ!  Thanks to everyone for the good advice.  I hope it lasts, because my fear is that it's a sign that the Fuze is dying. 

[Liamness]

Worked for me too. Ridiculous really. I was almost 100% sure it was something to do with Rockbox, but no, it just needed a whack.

[neutron_bob]

This reminds me of the following famous quote, depicted in the film, The Longest Day (1962) about the 1944 Normandy Invasion, D-Day:

Cmdr. Colin Maud, RN

• "Get off the beach! Move inland! Get off the beach! Move inland! The sooner we get off this beach, the sooner they'll stop this blasted shelling. It's very bad for the dog."

• "As my grandmother used to say, anything mechanical, give it a good bash."

The latter quote is a classic, Commander Maud, the Beachmaster, is talking to a crew, trying to start their tank.  He whacks the tank with a shillelagh, and it fires right up!

If you have a chance to watch this black-and-white widescreen classic, with its all star cast (understatement), you won't regret it.  You wouldn't think that something so crude and basic would work, but there are multiple reports of success here.  The Fuze is one tough cookie, to be sure.  Just don't whack the thing hard enough that you'd crack the case or display.  Obviously, a little jostle seems to do the trick.  Amazing.

Bob 

I was curious about Cmdr Maud.  Check this entry in Wikipedia.  Awesome.  He really did bring his shillelagh to the beach.

[dragon97]

I've en seeing the white screen a lot within the last few weeks and my fix is always whacking it on my nightstand a few times. But now its come to the point where I turn it on and I see the white screen and I can't even turn it off.

What should I do???

[barkatozz]

Actually....this worked for me to.

[DebLantz]

 I love this player, never had any problems with it.  Today it white screened on me and I had no bloody clue what to do.  I had been charging it and didn't pay attention to it after I disconnected it.  Two of my kids asked why it was glowing, but I ignored them because I was watching a good movie.  When I saw it "glowing" I was convinced it was dead.  I tried connecting it to the PC again and it gave me that "does not recognize....blah blah".  I recently had a bad virus and had to have my PC practically rebuilt and lost all my music.  I haven't backed up the music on my fuze and I thought it was all a goner.  I must say I was very hesitant to "whack" it and the first few tries yielded nothing.  I thought of all my mp3s lost so I really whacked it and YEAH!!!!  so after this long explanation, I just have to say thank you to whoever did the first "whacking" and let us know that it was a good fix!  

[Tapeworm]

Someone should invent a new game . . .

Whac-A-Fuze, anyone?

[mikedepetris]

thanks boys, white screen --> one hit on the mousepad --> fuze working again

unbelievable!