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Installation / Removal => Rockbox Utility => Topic started by: pavpav on May 03, 2009, 10:26:31 PM

Title: My sansa e250r won't turn on, but only the light on the ring is on
Post by: pavpav on May 03, 2009, 10:26:31 PM

I was going through my sansa e250r and I went to the file cleanup section of the rockbox firmware and when i clicked on it, it said it was cleaning the files or something like that. I tried to exit it out but it wouldn't, so I just let the battery run out. Now whenever I try turning on my sansa just the blue ring lights up. HELP!

Title: Re: My sansa e250r won't turn on, but only the light on the ring is on
Post by: cool_walking_ on May 03, 2009, 11:26:50 PM

http://rockbox.org/wiki/SansaE200Unbrick

Also, this symptom happened to me, and this (http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=18820.msg135867#msg135867) fixed it.

Title: Re: My sansa e250r won't turn on, but only the light on the ring is on
Post by: pavpav on May 06, 2009, 11:05:26 PM

So how do I do it? Do I turn it on first and click on the black thing above the battery or something else? Thank you for your help so far!

Title: Re: My sansa e250r won't turn on, but only the light on the ring is on
Post by: saratoga on May 07, 2009, 12:52:53 AM

I would try the software fix before assuming your hardware is broken.

Title: Re: My sansa e250r won't turn on, but only the light on the ring is on
Post by: pavpav on May 07, 2009, 07:02:30 PM

Do you need Ubuntu for the software fix?

Title: Re: My sansa e250r won't turn on, but only the light on the ring is on
Post by: saratoga on May 07, 2009, 07:06:01 PM

Quote from: pavpav on May 07, 2009, 07:02:30 PM

Do you need Ubuntu for the software fix?

Take a look at the wiki page I linked, its all there.  And don't even think about starting until you've read all of it.

Title: Re: My sansa e250r won't turn on, but only the light on the ring is on
Post by: pavpav on May 13, 2009, 09:52:23 PM

I don't think I got the wiki page link. If you wouldn't mind could you send it to me? Thank you very much for your time

Title: Re: My sansa e250r won't turn on, but only the light on the ring is on
Post by: saratoga on May 13, 2009, 09:57:00 PM

Sorry, I meant the one linked above, not the one I linked:

http://rockbox.org/wiki/SansaE200Unbrick

Title: Re: My sansa e250r won't turn on, but only the light on the ring is on
Post by: BruceHP on May 14, 2009, 10:48:03 PM

If the ring is lit with nothing on the screen, you might try just holding down the Power button until the ring goes out and then restarting the unit.  This might take one minute or so.