Sansa Updater installs known buggy firmware on Fuze V2

MP3 players Sansa Fuze
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Black Rectangle:

Since it is only an OFFER of newer firmware, which will not be desired by some users, the programmers of the HTML used to display “upgrades” for whichever product you use the updaters for should leave a link (like the one for the Video converter) right next to the firmware link and checkbox.

It is OBVIOUS they can do it, but have chosen not to.

If they can link to a popup with warnings and updated information for the Sansa Video Converter, then they can for the buggy firmware.

Can anyone give me a real valid reason why SanDisk can NOT do this for the firmware? (considering they can for the converter)

The Conspiracy Theorist in me says they don’t want to scare their users… but is pissing them off any better?

I would popup an IE window saying “Installing this firmware adds functionality (List functions added) and contains the following problems (List of problems known),”  and below this would besomething to the effect of “IF you can live without replay gain, (other problems), then you should update to this firmware.  Anyone not wanting to lose replay gain should NOT select this update.”

Wow, that would be a small popup window, smaller than for the Video Converter even…

 But I guess shareholders would rather hide the problem in the forums and hope users don’t ever upgrade their Fuze V2’s… (which isn’t too bad an idea if all of their customers were too dumb to find the updater or forums)

Obviously most of the users here are reasonably technically savvy enough to both update their players and find these forums… (Good for you, guys and gals)

I still look forward to a Rockbox day for the Fuze V2… (but I think SanDisk will have to share more IP in regards to the Fuze V2 for this to be a reality before the hardware is already obsolete)

Best Regards Everyone,

BDP

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Tapeworm:

  Yes, relatively short…:smiley:

I don’t want to be misunderstood… I am glad you come here day in and day out… you do your best, and quite good at that.

(the lower portion in the post in question was in  regards to the newest video converter was not aimed at you, so the portion above that was fairly short)

It pains me to see what could be a better product, crippled by a lack of a warning on the updater’s site (at this point I have tested and see it is definitely HTML based)

I could see some lag time for a note to be added to the updater’s site, like it is for the new video converter… but not in excess of a few days.

It is plain that ANY site could be contained in the popup window, for example a link to these forums?  :wink:

If the last post was short, this one is but a tweet… (I only tried Twitter for 2 days and found it’s brevity annoying)

Best Regards,

BDP

Message Edited by BDProductions on 12-13-2009 05:22 PM

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Just a bump to see about nudging those in power to relay to the Sansa Updater team that they should put up a warning for Updater users to see before pushing known buggy firmware on new Fuze V2 owners…

If they can put an info link next to the new SMC link, they can put one next to the firmware too…

I still contend it is completely wrong of them to have not done so a long time ago…(months now since the first complaints)

Hey, this is a pretty short post this time… I guess the .026 firmware relaxed me a bit…

Thanks…