problem with sansa e280

[AnotherStranger]

hi, i got my sansa about a monh ago and intalled rockbox. evrything was ok til i tried to run the original OS couple of days ago  and i couldnt do it  the sansa just kept rebooting and eventually stuck. i was stupid enaugh to move the rockbox folder from the root folder so may be the original OS will load but now nothing is working. if i try to boot to the original OS it just keeps rebooting.please help me because i dont know what to do .

[grossaffe]

can you get into recovery mode?

if so, download a sansa firmware file (should be named pp5022.mi4) and drop it into the 16 MB partition.

[AnotherStranger]

how can i go into the recovery mode?

and when i connect the sansa to the computer the computer doesnt wont recognize the sansa  because the player just keeps rebooting.

[Chronon]

Hi.  Did you search the wiki?  Try this page:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SansaE200Unbrick

[AnotherStranger]

i copied a bin file to the 16 mb partition and now when i turn on the player only the whell lights but nothing else happens. pleaaaaaassssssse help me

[rayjgu3]

did the .bin file pass the md5 checksum?
you say a bin file , which one did you grab?

[MarcGuay]

i copied a bin file to the 16 mb partition and now when i turn on the player only the whell lights but nothing else happens. pleaaaaaassssssse help me

Quoting from the page you were pointed to:

Only copy .mi4 files to the recovery partition.

I'd like to help but I have no idea what putting a .bin file in there does.

[zajacattack]

OK, I believe I can help. Now, if you connect your Sansa to the computer, what happens?

[AnotherStranger]

the computer reconizes that i conected something and makes a sound and asks for drivers but nothing else happens the sansas screen remains black and the whell lights up.

[zajacattack]

OK, you need to use e200tool (your device is probably in manufacturing mode). If you have Linux, I can give you easy instructions. If you don't, I can give you the Windows instructions, but it's much harder. It's up to you.

[AnotherStranger]

plwase give me them both cause for now i have windows but i can get linux tommorow

[zajacattack]

OK, for Linux, download e200tool from http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/e200tool.html and download a copy of the original Sansa bootloader and firmware (search for these on Google). Place these in the same folder as the e200tool executable.
Then, connect your Sansa to the computer. Launch the command line and navigate to the directory with e200tool. Now, execute "sudo ./e200tool recover BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom" (without the quotes) while holding Rec on your player. DO NOT RELEASE REC UNTIL YOU ENTER RECOVERY MODE. Finally, copy the original bootloader and firmware (and an empty file named "sansa.fmt" if and only if you want to format the Sansa) to the recover disk and unmount. Problem solved.

For Windows, it's the same idea, except you have to mess around with many drivers for the Sansa in recovery mode, and I would much prefer you do this on Linux (it's SO MUCH EASIER).

[AnotherStranger]

thank you very much i will try this later because i need to grt a copy of linux can u tell me where can i get it from?

[zajacattack]

You could burn a live disc of Ubuntu, SLAX, etc. It's really up to you.

[AnotherStranger]

but where can i get it from?