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snoip:
I finally got tired of holding down 'left' and booting my player, and wanted to recover the extra space that rockbox is using, so I fired up the rockbox utility program a few days ago to uninstall rockbox and the bootloader.
However, upon launching it, it immediately began complaining about connectivity issues, and told me to check (among other things) my proxy setting, etc.
I have never had to do this before with the utility program, and assume it is just another bug, and since I do not connect through a proxy, it seemed strange to have to do that out of the blue, especially since nothing else on my computer was giving me any warnings at all.
After several hours of messing around with it, I had made no headway at all, and gave up in further disgust over the whole thing.
So now I am going to try again... but after reading all of the horror stories about people ending up with non-functioning devices after their rockbox experience, I am very very hesitant to try removing it at all, especially with the utility program acting up all of a sudden.
Will the uninstall utilities function even though the utility program itself is spouting off all of these warnings about connection problems (that only exist for this one piece of software)?  I ask because the update feature won't work (I try that on a fairly regular basis in the hopes some of the issues will have been fixed), and I really don't want to end up with a piece of junk because the rockbox utility program can't seem to find the internet connection.
Thank you

Llorean:
Out of curiousity, where are these "horror stories" you mention? As far as I know, nobody has ever ended up with a non-functioning device if they followed the instructions, and no device ever has been made permanently non-functioning.

Also, why do you say it "hosed" your proxy settings? I don't see you actually mention at any point in your post that they were corrupted. Did you leave that out, or should the topic actually read something like "RButil complaining about Proxy settings"?

I opened this thread expecting perhaps a report of a problem where RBUtil had changed the proxy settings on your computer, but now I'm confused as to what you're actually trying to report.

snoip:
Sorry... I'm not at my home computer right now, so I don't have the exact text that it was generating...
But it was putting up a message box that said it could not connect (presumably to rockbox), and that I should check my settings (in the utility program). (File / Settings / Proxy tab, if I remember correctly.)
As I never had to set any of this in the first place, and had never gotten this message before, it seemed a little strange that I would suddenly have to.  I did run a virus scan and a chkdsk just to be certain, as well as throwing any internet connection test at it that I could find.  The only evidence of any problem I could find was that the rockbox utility says there is a problem.
I tried using the 'system default settings', and briefly checked out the manual settings, but it never would launch without it.
And, nothing I tried would allow it to reinstall/update the software.

As far as following the directions... I understand that there are instructions that will walk me through removing it... my concern is, if the rockbox utility is reporting problems that I can't confirm, and isn't able to install the latest and greatest version, then can I trust it to remove the bootloader without something else going awry?

-edit- Yes, the title of the post should have been worded differently... "Rockbox Utility Proxy Settings are Hosed"

Llorean:
Are you sure you weren't just using it when our server was down? I assumed you were talking about having done it right now, not earlier when the server was down.

We do ask that you report things that are still happening, so please verify it still happens. It sounds like what was wrong was that it really couldn't contact the server, because it wasn't there at the time...

snoip:
My apologies.  I should have said that this was a few days ago.
I wasn't aware that the server was down.
Regardless, I will just use the manual ('sansapatcher') method just to be certain.
Thank you.

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