h340 won't start. Battery dead or software problem?

[jimihx]

Hi folks!

a couple of weeks ago i forgot my charger at my friend's place. since my battery was rather bad i had to charge it like every other day. i thought i should use the original iriver firmware so i could use the usb-charger mode, but i had problems starting that when my rockbox firmware was active. so i changed the three last letters of the rockbox boot file, just so it wouldn't be recognized by the player. then bam!   the battery was dead, before i could turn on the usb-charger mode!

when i got back the charger a week later i couldn't start the player. rockbox started to load, but after two seconds i could spot a "-1" for a tenth of a second, which seemed quite strange, and then it went off.

is my battery dead? or did i do something extremely stupid when i altered the boot file name?

hope someone could tell me if i should by a new battery or somehow fix the software problem!

[bluebrother]

when i got back the charger a week later i couldn't start the player. rockbox started to load, but after two seconds i could spot a "-1" for a tenth of a second, which seemed quite strange, and then it went off.

Well, if you renamed the rockbox.iriver file this isn't strange at all -- a bootloader error -1 means that exactly that file wasn't found. If the player goes off directly afterwards I assume that the initial spinup of the disc drained that much power that the battery was simply flat enough to not have enough power left.

[jimihx]

ok thanx!

does this mean that the original firmware should load right after, if the battery is ok?

nothing happens when i plug in the charger, and i can't make a connection to my computer, supposedly since the battery is dead.

so do you think my problems are gone if i buy a new battery?

[bascule]

Are you sure the charger is working?

If you leave the player on charge for a while (1-2 hours) then you should be able to turn it on (still on charge) and boot into the OF in order to re-modify the rockbox.iriver filename.

[jimihx]

no i don't know if the charger is working, but i know that my battery had gotten much worse just the weeks before this happened. so i was thinking that when it was uncharged for a week or so it stopped working completely.

i'll try again and charge it tonight, and get back to you tomorrow. thanks a lot for your help!

[gnu]

It's not good for Lithium Ion batteries to be discharged completely - and if it was almost shot anyways, it might be ruined now...

[jimihx]

Oh yes!

I plugged the charger into the player and after about an hour it woke up and started charging! But the player is very unstable, it shuts down now and then. I don't know for sure, but it seems that it happens when I touch or turn the headphone plug. I guess it's the battery...

Thanks for your tips again!