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Problem rebooting Sansa e260 with Rockbox installed

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SillyCone:
Okay, so I just got a Sansa e260 v1 (refurb from buy.com) after reading up on Rockbox, it's features, and it's problems.

I successfully used sansapatcher to install Rockbox and after disconnecting, I rebooted the device and it loaded Rockbox like I thought it would.

I played around with the menu a tiny bit then updated the database, which of course told me to reboot to use it.

I reboooted the device and it showed the animated Sandisk logo like usual, then the screen turned briefly white then completely black.

The scroll wheel remained lit up, so I knew it hadn't turned off, but it wouldn't respond to any button press other than holding the power button for 15+ seconds.

Subsequent reboots resulted in the same thing.  I tried to get into the OF by holding the left button while booting, but had the same problem.

Plugging in the cable causes the device to turn on but hangs just after the Sandisk animated logo (showing "Sandisk")

I can get into recovery mode only by putting it into manufacturing mode, turning it off and turning it on with the record key held down.
This exact order only.  At least I CAN get into recovery mode.

From there I could return my player to normal.  Anyone heard of this before? I searched forums, IRC and flyspray, but could find hardly anything.


Here are some of the things things I have tried:

Almost every firmware, even the 1.03 ones
different versions of sansapatcher
ReverseBL (reverse bootloader)
Compile my own bootloader from latest subversion
Every combination of rbutil etc



It still does this as of today using r16443 (20080228T164908Z)


Any help would be greatly appreciated

zajacattack:
Yes, it seems as if the file system has been corrupted. You should try to recover from recovery mode (and probably format, just to be safe; I've seen recoveries fail because of these problems), and then run chkdsk or something similar on the device to try to fix the file system.

AlexP:
Woah there, don't go suggesting formatting before at least checking the disk.  It could be completely unnecessary.  

If you can (and it seems you can from what you have said), restore the Sansa to its original state.  Then connect it to your PC, and check the disk out, using chkdsk if on Windows, and let us know if it says anything.

zajacattack:

--- Quote from: BigBambi on March 01, 2008, 07:08:02 AM ---Woah there, don't go suggesting formatting before at least checking the disk.  It could be completely unnecessary.  

--- End quote ---

I've seen cases, though, where one tried to recover with a corrupted file system, and it failed. Formatting can prevent this temporarily and allow a checking of the file system.

Llorean:
But you shouldn't immediately jump to the most destructive solution, if there might be a way to repair it without formatting. It'll still be an option if the less destructive means don't work.

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