Bricked c200 V1 (Really Close to Fixing, But an Error With the Bootloader MI4)

[Unanimated]

Yeah, Rockbox messed everything on my Sansa up, copying everything in my Music folder into .Trash-1000. This causes my regular Sansa firmware to lock up during its Refresh Database stage, which won't let me connect it to the computer normally, because it does that before you connect it. Which is really stupid. Anyway, it still boots into recovery mode, but not manufacturing mode, which isn't that big of a deal. How can I format it from recovery mode?

THIS IS A C200. DO NOT POST E200 INSTRUCTIONS. SANSA.FMT DOESN'T WORK.

[advcomp2019]

Rockbox would not have copied your music to a .Trash folder.

I have heard something about a down or sub-menu button depends on whatever you call it has a way for format it there, but since I do not have a c200, I am not sure.

[Llorean]

.Trash-1000 is a folder created by your file manager on the host PC, and Rockbox doesn't copy any files automatically so the only way your music could get there is if you put it there.

Please describe everything you did, and maybe someone can help you with what went wrong.

[bluebrother]

There is no reason to scream around that "this is a c200, don't post e200 instructions". We can read.

[Unanimated]

Alright, sorry about the abruptness - it just kind of annoys me when people post instructions for something different than what you asked for, so I just wanted to prevent that.

Okay, I added a few songs to my player, then I hit Update Database. It took unusually long to update, but when it was "done," I went to one of my artists' names and hit one of their albums. There were two of each song for the entire album on all of my artists. I went to delete one, and it opened the screen and showed the directory, saying it was in .Trash-1000.

[Llorean]

Okay, first "Went to delete one" - Did you do this in Rockbox or your PC?

"Opened the screen" - What screen?

"saying it was in .Trash-1000" - Your PC said this?

[LambdaCalculus]

"saying it was in .Trash-1000" - Your PC said this?

Sounds to me like he's using Mac OS X.

[Llorean]

It's still a Personal Computer... "PC" doesn't mean "Your computer running Windows" or anything.

[Unanimated]

Okay, first "Went to delete one" - Did you do this in Rockbox or your PC?

"Opened the screen" - What screen?

"saying it was in .Trash-1000" - Your PC said this?

By "delete one," I mean one of the many duplicated songs. By "open the screen," I mean the screen that shows up after you open the context menu and hit delete. On that screen, it showed the directory under "Delete?" and it said it was in .Trash-1000.

By the way, I'm using Ubuntu 8.04.

[Llorean]

So your songs were put in the .Trash-1000 folder by your OS, I assume because at some point you deleted some of or all of the music on your player. You then copied some of the same songs back. Rockbox then indexed ALL songs on your player, including those in the trash folder.

When you attempted to delete the song, it just so happened you'd picked the old copy in the trash folder which is why that's the folder that was displayed.

None of this, then, should cause the problem that happened. Have you done anything else?

[Unanimated]

Well.. No. I added those few songs, then I updated and initialized the database (which took unusually long, I only put 3 songs on there) and then Rockbox copied them into my .Trash-1000 folder for some odd reason. When I would go into the database, it would also act really weird, sometimes showing all the songs by an artist, sometimes showing nothing, sometimes showing four of each song, but it would always go back to two copies of each song. I'm not sure why it did this, but I did continuously turn it off and on, which probably wasn't very smart. I'm assuming that there's so much space taken up on the player that the Sansa firmware can't manage it. Rockbox had never done this thing before - I had been using it for about two months (and I plan to continue to use it) before this happened.

[Llorean]

Rockbox does not randomly copy songs. They were already in your trash folder, as I've said, most likely from some previous deletion.

If the update took unusually long, it's possible your filesystem was corrupt. Do you eject before disconnecting from your computer?

[Unanimated]

Yes.

[Llorean]

Have you tried setting it to show hidden files in Rockbox and then deleting your trash folders (and possibly all folders except .rockbox)?

[Unanimated]

Yeah... I reinstalled the regular Sansa firmware in Recovery Mode, so I can't go into Rockbox anymore.. Hehe. I suppose I could modify one of the firmware files to format everything off the player then reinstall the Sansa firmware.