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Installation / Removal => Rockbox Utility => Topic started by: titomorti on June 24, 2010, 04:13:21 PM

Title: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: titomorti on June 24, 2010, 04:13:21 PM
sorry for my English I'm Spanish, I have decided to install rockbox on my little used packard bell vibe 500 and I have done everything right but now it does not start and sends me a message saying to check the hdd and off, any solution please , how to turn back to its previous firmware or do I use rockbox that is stable?
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: Chronon on June 25, 2010, 09:10:03 PM
It seems like this unit might have a bootloader USB mode.  What happens if you do these things:
1.    Turn off the player (Original Firmware).
2.    Connect your Vibe 500 to the computer using the data cable.
3.    Push and hold Power (for about 2 seconds) until the “USB” screen appears.

Hopefully, this will get your device connected in MSC mode.
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: Piki on June 25, 2010, 09:46:31 PM
If you can get it in MSC mode as suggested above, you should be able to install Rockboy stable or go back to the old firmware following the Packard Bell instructions.
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: titomorti on June 27, 2010, 10:14:36 AM
thank you for your quick response, but I have a problem with downloads of utilities that I need to leave the factory straight out of mp3, I mean the original firmware, and especially an application that asks me to update the firmware in the instruction manual comes to me as I should and I put a link packard bell that no longer exists, not if you can help me get everything I need for making the point mp3
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: AlexP on June 27, 2010, 10:42:47 AM
I'm sorry but I don't understand.  Could you try rephrasing?
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: titomorti on June 27, 2010, 01:19:54 PM
I apologize for my English, I use the translator of google .... I am spanish.despues of the tips mentioned above for these dear colleagues, I've tried everything from zero again, but when you start the mp3, I still say the same message,PLEASE CHECK THE HDD, I have no access to Packard Bell website because the address is missing, in the original instruction manual tells me to install a tool that I can update the firmware because  there's not internet address I can not download anything ... I don´t know install the original firmware, and not access the system folder, I think that folder has disappeared ...
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: Chronon on June 27, 2010, 08:13:23 PM
Can you get a USB connection if you follow the steps I posted earlier?
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: titomorti on June 28, 2010, 09:03:11 AM
chronon hello, yes I can, and the application rockbox utility, sees it as drive E, I have the folder there .rockbox, which is created after installation, my problem is that switching on the mp3 is hung on the message and below me PACKARD BELL PLEASE CHECK THE HDD places, and turns itself off ... thanks for all your interest
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: Chronon on June 28, 2010, 04:33:18 PM
Are you able to remove Rockbox?

Does the original firmware give the same error if Rockbox is removed?
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: titomorti on June 28, 2010, 05:21:49 PM
so it, is as if he had lost the original bootloader and the original firmware, does not start, I have no access to the folder system, I think it has disappeared, so if someone could hang the original ssystem folder that I need to flash the mp3 with instructions on how to do would be very grateful
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: titomorti on July 04, 2010, 07:49:56 AM
hello hello, I'm waiting for some suggestions, if you still are there.¿it´s my situation  so complicated?
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: b0hoon on July 04, 2010, 09:16:01 AM
Hi.

It looks like something went wrong with the bootloader install process.

Could you please try to connect once again in MSC mode, explained by Chronon?

The system folder may be hidden by default. You may need to activate "Show hidden files and folders" if you're on Windows. If there is no SYSTEM folder you can create it normally.

Then you have two options:
1) Download http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/vibe500/jukebox.mi4 and put it in the SYSTEM folder - Rockbox should run if you didn't erase the .Rockbox directory.
2) Download  - http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/pub/Main/PackardBellVibe500Port/JUKEBOX.mi4 and put it in the SYSTEM folder. The OF should run.

EDIT: If it won't help try to reformat your player (you may have some disk errors) and then make a SYSTEM folder and restore OF (solution 2).
Title: Re: help me packard bell vibe 500
Post by: titomorti on July 04, 2010, 05:38:36 PM
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, my problem was that to enable hidden folders and format the hdd SYSTEM folder disappeared, thanks, thanks, thanks