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e260 boots into RockBox fine, but won't boot into original firmware
oranges2:
I just purchased a Sansa e260 today, and went through the following steps:
1. Switched the device to MSC mode.
2. Downloaded the daily build (which I only did because build.rockbox.org was down at the time) and extracted the archive to the root of the drive.
3. Ran the sansapatcher.exe tool. The program said it was installed correctly, but the device continued to display "Writing", I wasn't sure if this was normal or not, so I waited a minute or so then just disconnected it.
4. Booted into RockBox. Everything seemed to be working fine.
5. Tried to boot into the original firmware by holding the
Bagder:
What version of the original firmware did you have, you know?
R model owners, is this looking like the same way it doesn't work for you?
oranges2:
I don't know what version the player came with, but when I recovered it I used the 1.00.12 file from this site: http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/mi4.html
Bagder:
Eh, you used that? I don't see how that is covered by the sansapatcher instructions. Can you elaborate? Did you install the 1.00.12 first and then use sansapatcher?
oranges2:
No, I used sansapatcher first (step 3), then when I couldn't boot to the original firmware (step 5), I recovered with that file (step 6).
After that I tried using sansapatcher again (step 7), and now I'm posting here.
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