I have sansa clip plus 2gb which is rockboxed. Rockboxed sansa worked fine for last 6-7 months, no problem as such. 2 days ago reacharged it full and tried to switch it on later as usual, it just got hanged. I let the battery drain fully and tried charging it again, but it wont. Tried to reset it with power button down for more than 1 minutes, does not help. Connecting it to computer says your device cannot be recognised. Tried forcing the mode by pressing down middle button while connecting usb cable, that does not help either.
I would let it sit disconnected for 3-4 days to make sure the battery is completely dead (2 days may not be long enough), then try plugging it in. Assuming the battery really is dead, when you plug it into USB the sandisk firmware will load before rockbox. If that still doesn’t work its probably a bad memory chip and can’t be fixed.
Somehow it started on sansa firmware and i realised some song must be corrupted so i tried formatting on board, it says formatting but does not seem to be ending, been 10-15 minutes now. Connecting it to pc shows 4mb drive. What does thsi suggest ?
Somehow it started on sansa firmware and i realised some song must be corrupted so i tried formatting on board, it says formatting but does not seem to be ending, been 10-15 minutes now. Connecting it to pc shows 4mb drive. What does thsi suggest ?
I think the 4MB drive happens whenever it can’t read the NAND memory. I’m assuing you formatted it FAT32?
Also its not starting the normal way by pressing power button. It is starting only after pressing home button and after split seconds the power button for 5 seconds together.
The 4MB disk means the NAND didn’t respond during power up. Nothing you do in that mode will be saved since there is no storage connected. If you get the sandisk software to boot again, try reinstalling the latest sandisk firmware. If you can’t get it to boot as anything but a 4MB disk its probably just a burned up memory chip.
Its without memory card. It shows only 1 drive, and file system is fat and exfat, while capacity is 4.03 MB.
Trying to format it gives error that windows cannot format this drive. I wonder why does it not show me the normal 2 gb drive with proper file system?
I believe what Saratoga is saying is that your internal memory chip is not working anymore. The clip+ can no longer access it. If you still cannot get the player to boot up, then the memory chip has failed. If that’s the case, then reinstalling the firmware, error-checking and formatting will do nothing. You’ll have to replace the player.
The single drive that’s showing on your computer is the microcard slot. It’ll show whether there’s a card in there or not. When the player works normally, you’ll see two drives that appear for the player on your computer. One drive is for the internal memory and the second for the card slot.
Unfortunately, installing a third-party software like Rockbox voids Sandisk’s warranty.
I think that USB in Sansa Clip+ is not yet supported by Rockbox, that’s why your PC doesn’t recognize it.
To access your files in the Sansa, you need to reboot to the original firmware and then connect like you did. Reinstalling Rockbox or resetting the settings will do nothing.
Holding the home and power button together for more than 5 seconds it even comes to life with original sansa firmware, but it does not play any song , or browse the folder properly. Some ugly characters appear in songs folder.
Holding the home and power button together for more than 5 seconds it even comes to life with original sansa firmware, but it does not play any song , or browse the folder properly. Some ugly characters appear in songs folder.
Okay, since you can get the player to boot, something in the firmware is still working, but it sounds like a part of the firmware is corrupt. Does the computer recognize the player? If it does, then see if you can put the player in MSC mode with the player’s settings and then try to reinstall the firmware.
If the reinstallation of the firmware does not complete, then plug the player into the computer again and, if recognized, run an error check on the player. If that completes, then try reinstalling the firmware again.
If the NAND chip powers up, you should get the sandisk firmware. If it doesn’t you would see the 4MB “disk” that doesn’t really work. Since you’ve seen both something must be screwed up somewhere Try reinstalling the sandisk firmware and hope that fixes it.
Try reinstalling the sandisk firmware and hope that fixes it.