Gigabeat not saving settings anymore

[xtremedrummer498]

I have a Gigabeat F40 and hated it when I got it. A friend of mine told me to get Rockbox, yada yada I downloaded it and LOVED it. Rockbox worked just fine for me for months, up until yesterday. All of a sudden Rockbox won't save my settings. Every time I turn it on, the default settings are there as if I had just installed Rockbox. I tried loading it up with the current build, and I am still running into the same problems. . . someone please help me to make my Rockbox work, it would be a shame to have to go back to the original firmware.

[GodEater]

You're not flicking the hold switch to "on" as soon as you power it up by any chance are you ?

[Monkeytamer]

I believe it would be holding the 'A' button that would have the effect of defaulting the settings while booting, which isn't too hard to press accidentally.

[xtremedrummer498]

No, I'm not flicking the battery switch or pressing the A button. My Gigabeat saves the time, but that's about it. Every other setting goes back to default.

[bascule]

Try saving the settings again (obviously with some changes!) before shutting down again. It may just be a corrupted config file.

If that fails, try a new build, or re-install your original.

[xtremedrummer498]

I'm changing the theme before I shut it down because this is the easiest change to see when I start the player up again. . . sometimes it saves and sometimes it doesn't. How do I fix a corrupted .config file?

[bascule]

Perhaps I should have said this first:

Go into the Manage settings screen and do a Reset Settings from there. That may fix corruption. If not:

Go into the .rockbox folder, delete config.cfg, fixed.cfg (if it exists) and any of your saved .cfg files.

Shutdown fully and restart and you should be back to clean default settings

[xtremedrummer498]

Thanks! I deleted the old .cfg files and now everything works perfect.