Rockbox & V2's

Yeah, then your lucky, my unit doesnt accept that old or modified firmwares. It just ignores them and doesnt start the flash process.

BR Robert

ssorgatem - you are correct and thank you for correcting my error…  it is indeed the left (|<<) button that is held down at bootup, to boot into the original Sansa firmware.

man, i’m still trying to figure this out, but i WAS able to revert to 2.17 from 2.3 (or whatever it was).

I went here: FreemattandGrace.Com

at the end of the first post, the dude gives a link to download the zip file of v2 OF.  I extracted the fuzpa file over to the fuze v2, and voila!  it’s now 2.17.

Tried what was listed on page 10 with a new Fuze, and now it’s dead. It originally booted into rockbox and i could browse through the file menu. I looked away and when I looked back the display was black and the blue ring was out. If I plug headphones in and out, though, there is a bit of static as if it is still powered on. I have tried holding the power switch for 30 seconds but can’t get it to reset. Is there any other way to reset, or to physically cut power without taking the unit apart?

You may want to read this thread on the rockbox forum,

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=24992.0

Waiting for the battery to run down, or holding power off for much longer can work.

Message Edited by csavery on 06-22-2010 12:58 PM

I did later try holding the power switch for as long as 3 minutes, still no life. I have a feeling if I could get it to power up, and hold rewind, it will boot to stock firmware. I’d rather not wait several days for it to come back though. I wasnt playing anything when it died. It was sitting at the rockbox menu. Could take much longer if theres nothing to stress the cpu.

It doesn’t realy make sense how it died. Even with bunk firmware, it should at least power on, then display some kind of failure message. I think it might be a hardware problem unrelated to rockbox. It was booted into RB for over a minute before it died.

I did cave in to compusa’s protection plan anyway, so i could walk in and demand a replacement.

Message Edited by cam94z28 on 06-22-2010 02:02 AM

@cam94z28 wrote:

I did later try holding the power switch for as long as 3 minutes, still no life. I have a feeling if I could get it to power up, and hold rewind, it will boot to stock firmware. I’d rather not wait several days for it to come back though. I wasnt playing anything when it died. It was sitting at the rockbox menu. Could take much longer if theres nothing to stress the cpu.

 

It doesn’t realy make sense how it died. Even with bunk firmware, it should at least power on, then display some kind of failure message. I think it might be a hardware problem unrelated to rockbox. It was booted into RB for over a minute before it died.

 

I did cave in to compusa’s protection plan anyway, so i could walk in and demand a replacement.

Message Edited by cam94z28 on 06-22-2010 02:02 AM

Just wait for the fuze to be out of battery. It happened to me too, and it lasted 2,5 days, until I could finally plug it in the usb and the OF booted.

is the rockbox site closed down???

@gsprings wrote:
is the rockbox site closed down???

No.

Why are you asking that???

gsprings wrote:
is the rockbox site closed down???

Seems to be fine to me.

@gsprings wrote:
is the rockbox site closed down???

You tried rockbox. org , right?

I thought this was an issue with my phone’s Internet, but I actually had trouble accessing both rockbox.org and their forums.rockbox.org (took me a couple hours to finally get it to work).

i noticed that the album art does not show up in a lot of the themes i tried,everything else works fine

also noticed that rockbox would load only 900 or so mp3’s out of around 1300 on my 8 gb sandisk micro sdhc card

not real impressed with this rockbox,the sandisk UI is a lot better looking,it’s free so i guess you can’t complain

gsprings wrote:
not real impressed with this rockbox,the sandisk UI is a lot better looking,it’s free so i guess you can’t complain

Iit’s a nice alternative that provides people with many more options, settings & features than the SanDisk OD offers. However, it is not everyone’s cup 'o tea.

gsprings wrote:
not real impressed with this rockbox,the sandisk UI is a lot better looking,it’s free so i guess you can’t complain

It’s a nice alternative that provides people with many more options, settings & features than the SanDisk OF offers. However, it is not everyone’s cup 'o tea.

That’s why it’s considered _ alternative _ firmware, not mandatory.  :wink:

@gsprings wrote:
also noticed that rockbox would load only 900 or so mp3’s out of around 1300 on my 8 gb sandisk micro sdhc card

I have 3019 audio files on my Rockboxed Fuze.  On the 8GB internal memory there are 599 audio tracks, 69 jpg images, 10 videos. The other 2420 audio files are on a 16GB micro SDHC.  The internal memory currently has 1.1GB free space and the SDHC has 37MB free. The internal memory has previously been very close to capacity, with no problems.  I often listen to audiobooks which are stored on the internal, so am regularly writing new files to that, and removing old files.

Btw if you don’t like the UI you can change it.  The Sansa UI is fine imo, no complaints.  I also like the Rockbox UI but unless you like a very basic look you really need to explore the themes and fonts available online and also the firmware’s settings.

What if I put the USB on RockBox?

SadPanda1 wrote:
What if I put the USB on RockBox?

What if? Smiley