[Firmware] Sansa View Firmware 1.03.02 Download

Firmware is the software the runs when you turn on your MP3. (Menus, Playlist, etc).

You sansa will have a disk that should load the tray app (sansaupdater.exe) that will check your current version w/ the available version and update is you wish. If the tray updater does not load on boot, you can load it as follows:

“C:\Program Files\SanDisk\Sansa Updater\sansaupdater.exe” -iloveit

Regards,

Scott.

Suggestions for next version of firmware.

I am very content with my Sansa View. I only have difficulties finding the music on my Sansa View. It took quite some time to arange my music database in such a way that I can find my tracks on my view, mainly because of different handling between the sansa view and Windows media player.

A suggestion is to add an additional search in the music list: on “album-artist” similar to windows media player (for example to find al the albums with “various artists”).

- It would also help if the MP3 tags could be read back on the screen

- It would be helpfull if scrolling all the artist or tracks could go faster, by first going through the alfabet. My View can handle 4000 music numbers, but I can not scroll all through this number of files for a music track / artist starting with the letter “z”.

- there is also a difference between Sansa View and Windows media player, because WMP leaves out the “the” of an album title.

Similar handling in both WMP and Sansa View, I would consider a great improvement.

I’d like to see the ability to create/use subfolders in the video section. That way I could do my dvd’s as multiple files and store then sepratly in their own folders instead of all movies lumped into one spot. I realize I could just make one larger combined file but you have a higher risk of the audio getting out of sync the bigger the file in my experience.

I’m having a problem of converting my audio books CD’s to my player.  I’m so confused as I’ve tried everything and it does not recognize any of the files on CD

As I understand it the View is only compatible(will recognize them as audiobooks) with audiobooks that have the .aa file extension. 

These are only available for purchase from audible.com

I suppose you could transfer your cd’s to your pc and convert the files to .mp3.  The problem is you won’t have any audiobook functionality at all.  The device will treat them like anyother mp3 music file.

Been off this board for over 6 months now, purchased a View, 16Mbyte for my wife at Christmas time last year with version 01.01.06A firmware, still working fine.  Ha, only problem is that 16Mbyte is not nearly enough.  So what’s with this version?  Improvements?  Back then, upgrades were going backwards, recall installing version 01.02.09A that created problems and going right back to version 01.01.06A.

Oh the problems we had when we first got that thing, but forgot just about everything about it.  Wife asked me if I wanted my own MP3 player, I found she had an old Technics SL-D33 turntable, restored that to new condition and having fun with that, LOL.

She remembers how to make playlists using Windows Media, I forgot about that too.  Is there an easier way to make playlists today?  Is SanDisk providing software now?

Other than a slightly improved firmware version, S.S.D.D. :wink:

I’m back on 06 myself. 

Message Edited by shadow98fl on 09-09-2008 03:53 PM

@nickd wrote:

Been off this board for over 6 months now, purchased a View, 16Mbyte for my wife at Christmas time last year with version 01.01.06A firmware, still working fine.  Ha, only problem is that 16Mbyte is not nearly enough.  So what’s with this version?  Improvements?  Back then, upgrades were going backwards, recall installing version 01.02.09A that created problems and going right back to version 01.01.06A.

 

Oh the problems we had when we first got that thing, but forgot just about everything about it.  Wife asked me if I wanted my own MP3 player, I found she had an old Technics SL-D33 turntable, restored that to new condition and having fun with that, LOL.

 

She remembers how to make playlists using Windows Media, I forgot about that too.  Is there an easier way to make playlists today?  Is SanDisk providing software now?

Nothing has really changed.

Message Edited by eddiehaskell on 09-10-2008 08:17 AM

Yes, something has changed.  Six months ago, I might have considered buying another SanDisk product like the View.

Now I know - never buy a product like this without visiting forums to read accounts of bugs in the product and to see the manufacturer’s response.  SanDisks utter disregard for customers like me is really annoying.

Never again. 

Agreed …

Sansa may create great hardware, but their poor software development, lack of real support and general disregard for customers makes them just another turd in the toilet. My advise to others looking to purchase an MP3 player … look somewhere else, or at least purchase as a bargain bin item that supports 3rd party firmware.

As a software developer, I really despise companies that have no clue on how to manage support of their customers. Why pretend.

Scott.

Those new Ipod nono’s are starting to look really good.  It just ticks me off to spend another $200 on another new MP3 player when the View is only 9 months old.

Yep, Sansa could have really kicked their butt with this one.  They were ahead of the curve.  Instead, not only have they been caught… theyve been passed.

If I was shopping now though?  Even if I knew nothing about the View and it’s problems and buggy firmware… I’d get a 16gb Nano or Zune.  Both are simply much more polished and elegant products than the View. 

So one person says the shuffle problem is fixed, and another says it’s not. What’s the deal? That’s really my biggest concern at this point and will decide if I upgrade or not.

It is NOT fixed.

That said, go ahead and upgrade.  I upgraded a while ago and haven’t noticed any new problems.

I’ve been trying to update my Sandisk to the most update firmwire, however have been having some troubles. First of all, The Sansa Update only shows up once in a while, and when it does, it stops downloading the update halfway through, saying there were some troubles. I’ve tried to manually turn on Sansa Update, but couldn’t, (error saying "Only Sansa Service can open this file). I’ve manually downloaded the firmwire and TRIED to put in on the root directory, but again, failed because it kept saying “Cannot copy Bitmap: The Device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected”

Is the “slow fast forward” on music ever improved on new firmware? Or is there any way introduced to skip 30 min worth of music in a long file? I am considering returning Sansa view if this problem is not fixed. 

Fast forward we got  only skip one minute of music in 5 sec or so, and it takes ridiculous amount of time to skip, say,  30 min of music. 

No, the fast forward with the 1.03.02 FW is frustratingly slow on podcasts, etc. It’s interesting that it works fine on the e200 series.

I wonder if Sandisk have any intention to implement fast enough “fast forward”. I can not believe that fact that Sandisk does not fix such a simple problem. I don’t think implementing accelerating forward or something like that is hard at all. It is quite a disappointment. 

They still can’t get the rewind to work reliably, that’s another simple/basic function on a media player that should work regardless.

Can someone tell me why i cant update?

I have the updater installed and it does nothing when View is connected. Anyone know why? I have tried opening it manually by going to Program Files etc. and it just opens a folder full of different languages.

I have downloaded the zip f update but i cant find out where the Root Directory is, can anyone tell me?