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Support and General Use => Hardware => Topic started by: apachey on July 12, 2015, 09:18:28 AM

Title: Sandisk Sansa Clip Zip failing
Post by: apachey on July 12, 2015, 09:18:28 AM
I got this mp3-player with 4GB MicroSD, both memories (built-in and card ones) **are filled up**.

Using RockBox dev.build e70ea5d

How it started

So last night i listened to music and then decided to launch PictureFlow, and then it started repairing album artwork, moved very slowly, and i fell asleep. I woke up at morning and noticed that it stuck on 1/5th and didn't move. At that moment i didn't knew that you can force shut-down (FSD) your player holding a power button for 30 seconds. So it just stayed all night trying to repair it.

Trying to ressolve it

I searched the internet, found that you can FSD it, booted again, it worked ok, i guess. I tried to make an empty playlist, but when it tried to save it, it just freezed. FSD again, tried to make filled playlist, freezed again, FSD. Then i just started to listen to music, but after one, two or three tracks it just stops responding. Screen animation is working, even that small triangle showing that track is being played, but i hear nothing and track progress bar won't move, and track time won't run as well.

Panic

I pluged my player in computer, after a few minutes (before it could take few seconds) i noticed that my computer recognized both memories, but not as microsd and player, but as 'removable drive'. When i opened one of them, i saw many files without a format that has weird names and sized 57 kb. Also, dialogue window appeard, saying that i must format the other memory. When i unplugged my player it showed me (http://i.imgur.com/8DZVMcN.jpg). I can click any button and then it will just boot up and will work seemingly ok.

My verdict

I suspect that after a few fails trying to create new files in filled up player, system was effed-up.

What exactly i'm asking for

Help!

TL;DR MP3-Player with filled-up memory, fails, can't connect to computer, works ok but won't play music and do some functions. What i should do?
Title: Re: Sandisk Sansa Clip Zip failing
Post by: Mihail Zenkov on July 12, 2015, 12:12:19 PM
When player off - try hold select (middle button) and connect it to usb. Then try check disk for errors or format it and reinstall rockbox.
Title: Re: Sandisk Sansa Clip Zip failing
Post by: apachey on July 12, 2015, 12:18:20 PM
Thanks, already restored everything, working w/ rockbox ok.

anyone who reads it, feel free to PM me how to fix. Even if it will be 'posted 5 yrs ago'