Broken Toshiba F Series

[procreator]

I attempted the rockbox upgrade to my F series Toshiba Gigabeat and upon restarting the player I get nothing, and every now and then it will bring up a blank screen, but I can no longer see the device connected to my computer, I have heard the term bricked device, please tell me there is a way to repair my device...

[elborak]

The wiki should have everything you need. If the procedures outlined there don't work, post again.

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GigabeatFXPort

[procreator]

I followed the directions and I think that I actually loaded the wrong .dat file to the player, because now I can't get past the toshiba bootloader screen.  In addittion to that, I can no longer see the drive on the USB.  It's not booting up all the way --- any fix?

[Chronon]

If you switch the battery off then back on and try connecting by USB before turning the unit on, this should give you the bootloader USB mode.

[procreator]

Negative,
            I am only able to get the toshiba Boot screen to come on for a few seconds then at the point where the firmware would load, I get nothing the unit just turns off or the screen turns on with nothing on it and no response form any buttons so I cannot even power down without switching the battery off.  I have found a 1.8" to 2.5" drive converter on the internet for $15.00 seems like my last hope at this point t otry to slide it into my 2.5" drive sleeve and access it from there.

[Chronon]

The bootloader USB may only work through the cradle.  I just tried it just now with a plain cable and it did nothing -- but I'm fairly certain that it works through the cradle.  I was hoping that that bootloader USB mode was stored in code that gets loaded before you see the Gigabeat splash screen.  Just a thought. . .

[Mad Cow]

Do the hard drive hot-swap mentioned in the wiki, that always works for me when I screw up the bootloader.

[Gigabeat_Luv3R]

Do the hard drive hot-swap....

Yes thats the only way to fix your problem basically you open up the gigabeat, de-attatch and attatch the hard drive while pluged into the computer (turned on) so the the computer can pick it up through usb and then put all the system files back on. You might be unlucky and have completly reckt the hard drive like i did on my x30 soo then you would have to buy a new hard drive or a new mp3 player.

The error is usually caused when the mp3 player can not run the bootloader (possibly the bootloader has been deleted, miss placed or renamed wrong). Thus makin it stop half way when booting.

[procreator]

Thanks All, I Really appreciate it, I will be attempting the Hot swap this afternoon...

[Mad Cow]

When you're removing the top and bottom covers, be careful with those little clips, I broke on yesterday whenopening my player.