sansa problems!!!

[npa4863]

i have two problems with my sansa 4gig player with rock box (obviously)...

1st when i charge using my usb wall charger it only brings it to 60%, but when i charge it on my PC it will do a full charge fine... i know my charger works fine tho, whats wrong and how do i fix it???

2ND the theme's are not working right... theres a pic attached so u can see for ur self... its sapost to be the "CoolRead" theme but its this.

[karashata]

I'm not sure what to do about the first issue, but the second is simple:  the theme you're using is out of date and needs to be fixed to work with the recent builds.  Most likely you will need to alter the %pb line to resemble %pb|bmp|x|y|width|height| and remove the %P line.

[saratoga]

You can't charge the Sansa in rockbox.  We'll probably enable that in a couple weeks when the feature freeze is over.

[MarcGuay]

Re: Charging

Are you using the original firmware to charge or Rockbox?  The Sansa firmware should charge fine using USB or a wall charger, but Rockbox currently doesn't charge - or charges very little/slowly.

[npa4863]

how do i boot in sansa firmware temporally???

[Febs]

http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-sansae200/rockbox-buildch3.html#x5-290003.1.3

[Gareth Schakel]

wow, there are a surprising rash of people who seen very determined to avoid the Manual http://www.rockbox.org/manual.shtml...

  edit: I havent had any trouble with charging via rockbox, strange.....

[Michel347]

Same, my C250 is charging fine under Rockbox 

[Strife89]

With the official builds (as of r18415), you cannot charge the Sansas yet. If you plug one in, the battery percentage will shoot up to 100%, but it is not being charged. It is, however, running off the power source you just plugged in, so at least you're not draining your battery.

There is a patch for charging the Sansas, but to use it you must set up a build environment any apply the patch to the source code yourself. With that said, I applied the patch about a week ago and have since been using Rockbox to charge, instead of the OF. It works very nicely.*

As saratoga already said,

We'll probably enable [charging] in a couple weeks when the feature freeze is over.

*Note: Currently the battery meter still shoots up, but not as quickly, and it stops at 99% for a while. Just let it sit there for a while (about two hours for a badly drained battery), even if it hits 100%, and it should be in the upper 90s after unplugging.