Is my sansa e260 now a brick?

[taser]

Hello, all! New to this forum, so please be kind.

My rockboxed e260 was working fine. Then I messed with a good thing by updating the original Sandisk firmware, and then reinstalling the rockbox firmware and bootloader.

If the e260 is disconnected from the USB port, it works OK. However, when I connect the cable, I get the following:

RockBox Boot Loader 
Version: 4.0
Sandisk Sansa e200
Partition 0: 0x0B 3814 MB
Partition 1: 0x84 20MB
Loading original firmware...
Trying firmware partition
BL mi4 size : EC00
of mi4 size: 596400
CRC32: 82FFA346
Model id: e200
Binary type RBOF
calculated CRC32: ce60a37d
Can't load from partition
Bad checksum
Trying /System/OF.mi4
Can't load /System/OF.mi4
File not found
Trying /System/OF.bin
Can't load /System/OF.bin
File not found

If it's dead, lay it on me gently. But please let me know if there's a chance that I can get the awesomeness that is RockBox back in my life.

[MarcGuay]

I highly doubt your player is bricked.  Can you still get into recovery mode?  If so, it's easy as pie to downgrade the original firmware back to where you were and reinstall Rockbox.  But I presume a better solution would be to update the bootloader to work with the latest Sansa firmware.

[taser]

I'm able to enter recovery mode when it's disconnected, but I'm not sure how to proceed from there. Since I get the error messages mentioned when I insert the cable, I don't see how I can upload files to the device, either to replace the bootloader or return the device to factory defaults.

[MarcGuay]

Read the Sansa Unbrick page in the wiki, linked off the e200 port index.  I think there's a misunderstanding about what Recovery Mode is.

[taser]

Hopefully, the wiki will be available again sometime soon. All I'm getting right now is an HTTP 500 Internal Server Error whenever I click on the link.

[MarcGuay]

It's cached here if you don't want to wait:

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:00naOUm3AtwJ:www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SansaE200Unbrick+unbrick+rockbox&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

[taser]

MarcGuay:
You were correct; I was mistaking RockBox's Cleared Mode for the Sansa's Recovery Mode. The Lock switch showed just enough orange to confuse me as to what position it was in. Thank you for the clarification and the link! I uploaded the firmware again into the smaller partition, and everything on the Sansa side seems to be working again. I'll have to re-upload the RockBox bootloader later when I get home (no Admin access on this machine), but I'm no longer a hopeless wretch. Very much appreciated!

[MarcGuay]

For the record, do you know what version of the Sansa firmware it was that gave you problems?

[taser]

Firmware was v01.02.24A
I wouldn't blame the firmware, though. I think I was just rushing through the RockBox install without paying attention to what I was doing or what the instructions were, thinking that the last install I did would be enough experience. After getting home, I re-did the install, taking my time, and everything worked well.