Bricked Sansa e270

[kenbquik]

I bricked my sansa e270 v1 and can really use some help.  I installed rockbox on this unit for my wife with great success!  Then something happened after a few months.  When she gave it to me, the device would not boot displaying the blue lighted ring.  I tried to unbrick the device trying the recovery mode and the the manufacturing mode.  Nothing.  I can get the device off, lock it, etc.  and nothing!  My computer doesn't even reconize the device.  I'm not sure what to do next.  Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.  Please let me know.  Thanks.
 

[Chronon]

Does it have enough charge to boot?  What happens when you try to enter recovery or manufacturer mode.

[lapair]

I'm having the same problem, I think. The Sansa is unresponsive, and my computer won't recognize it. I was trying to uninstall Rockbox so that I could put new songs on the player, and deleted OF.mi4 accidentally. If I could just get my computer to recognize the player, I would be able to fix this! Someone, please help!

Mine is fully charged, and when I try to get it into recovery or manufacturing mode, it says "File not found. Cannot load." I cannot do anything with my player!

[lapair]

Sansa technical support basically shut me down when I called them today (no pun intended)...is there anyone that might be able to help me out?

[zajacattack]

What EXACTLY does it say when you try to boot it (1) normally, (2) in recovery mode, and (3) in manufacturing mode.

Also, if the screen says anything, then you are probably not correctly going into manufacturing mode. Only the blue scroll light goes on when you go into manufacturing mode.

[lewislink]

I was cleaning up the root directory of folders and files I didn 't feel was necessary such as the MUSIC, PHOTO, PLAYLIST folders and such and tried to remove a duplicate rockbox folder and after a reboot from MSC mode my Sansa no longer works. All it will do is freeze on the "Refresh Database screen. It won't show up in Windows and there's no way to access the drive root. System recovery, unless I'm doing something wrong, doesn't help either.

I'll have to salvage the battery and anything usable on this device I suppose and then buy another.

[lewislink]

While trying to unbrick my e250 I read this thread and need to know what do you after entering the manufacturer mode? I'm in the mode, have no drivers or driver disk so what would I do? Thanks

[Llorean]

Or you could simply recover the firmware in recovery mode, so that the device is usable again.

[Llorean]

From your description of your problem, lewislink, you need recovery mode, not manufacturer mode.

[lewislink]

I tried recovery mode. It didn't work. I'm going to buy another e200 and it'll be a V.2 so I can use an 8GB MSDHC card in it. I'd love to be able to put Rockbox on it, though.

[saratoga]

I tried recovery mode. It didn't work.

What happened?

I'm going to buy another e200 and it'll be a V.2 so I can use an 8GB MSDHC card in it. I'd love to be able to put Rockbox on it, though.

You can use 8GB MicroSD on your V1 in Rockbox already.

[lewislink]

What happened?

I was trying to clean up the drive root of unecessary files and folders and saw there were rockbox and .rockbox duplicates. There was one .rockbox folder that had another .rockbox folder inside of it and then there was another rockbox folder that had a .rockbox folder inside of it. I simply attempted to do away with the duplication. One .rockbox folder had a rocks file that wouldn't delete so I rebooted into MSC mode (the main mistake) and since then have not been able to do anything with my e250. Had I not booted into MSC mode, all the problems would be resolved by a reinstall of Rockbox. But since MSC mode causes the player database to refresh, it won't refresh, it just hangs there and won't ever show up on the PC.

You can use 8GB MicroSD on your V1 in Rockbox already.

I didn't know that. Now I feel even worse about losing my perfect e250.

[saratoga]

I was referring to the quoted text.  What happened when you tried recovery mode?

[lewislink]

The 16MB file loaded, I put the M4 file on it, rebooted but the same un-refreshing screen.

[lewislink]

Recovery mode didn't work.