Sansa C240 v1 installation issues

[printerdude83]

I recently purchased a sansa c240 mp3 player. I wish to install rockbox on it but am having some difficulties extracting the .rockbox files to my player. I am using Ubuntu and when i connect my player it recognizes it and i am able to extract the file to the player. But when i go to look i cant find the files on the player at all. I have even tried the automatic install with the rbutilqt-v1.0.7.tar.bz2 application and it still wont work I click on the full install button it boots me out of the program. Ive read the manuals and i don't know if I'm missing something or what maybe I'm just dumb idk but maybe one of you guys can help me out. thanks

[AlexP]

What is the Sansa firmware version?

USB mode is set to MSC and *not* MTP right?

[orionfyre]

gnome by default hides anything beginning with 'dot' since that is an accepted scheme as indicatin files as quasi-hideable.

hit ctrl+h in nautilus while you are viewing the folder, you'll see the .rockbox show up.
also, unmount the device when you plug it in and before you attempt the installation.

[bluebrother]

I have even tried the automatic install with the rbutilqt-v1.0.7.tar.bz2 application and it still wont work I click on the full install button it boots me out of the program.

What do you mean by this? Simply telling it doesn't work doesn't help a bit fixing it.

[printerdude83]

Ok sorry it took so long to get back to you guys but heres some answers for you...

My sansa version number is 01.01.00p and yes it is in msc usbmode

I can now see my .rocketbox files thanks to orionfyre thanks for the key stokes

Now i cant seem to get the boot loader to copy and work.  here is the error i get...

jerrid@jerrid-desktop:~$ chmod +x sansapatcher
jerrid@jerrid-desktop:~$ ./sansapatcher
sansapatcher v0.6 with v4.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[ERR]  No E200s or C200s found, aborting
[ERR]  Please connect your sansa and ensure it is in UMS mode
[ERR]  You may also need to run sansapatcher as root.
[ERR]  Please refer to the Rockbox manual if you continue to have problems.

Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher :


Ummm yeah any ideas? lol

[LambdaCalculus]

sudo ./sansapatcher

[printerdude83]

Ok seems to have worked heres what i got....

jerrid@jerrid-desktop:~$ sudo ./sansapatcher
[sudo] password for jerrid:
sansapatcher v0.6 with v4.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] c200 found - /dev/sde
[INFO] Reading partition table from /dev/sde
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0            1023       1965567       959.3   FAT16 (0x06)
[INFO]    1         1965568       2006527        20.0   OS/2 hidden C: drive (0x84)
Enter i to install the Rockbox bootloader, u to uninstall
 or c to cancel and do nothing (i/u/c) :i
[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher :
jerrid@jerrid-desktop:~$

But now what... I power my sansa down and power it back up again but no rock box.....


Ok I figured it out for all of those people out there running ubuntu and have their files hidden they need to use these commands to unhide your files and then run your sanspatcher.

To make this change bring up the run dialog box by pressing Alt+F2 and type gconf-editor, then click on the run button to bring up the Gnome Configuration Editor.

Now browse to the following key:

desktop / gnome / file_views

In the right window pane, look for the entry named show_hidden_files and click on the check box to set the value to true (shown by the check mark).

Now when you browse the file system on your Ubuntu computer, Nautilus will always display hidden files.

[advcomp2019]

The reason why you did not have Rockbox is you only installed the bootloader.  You needed the .rockbox folder on the root of the Sansa.

[printerdude83]

Yes the rockbox files were hidden.

[Strife89]

Nautilus automatically hides any file or folder that starts with a period in the name (".rockbox"). In Ubuntu, unhiding them is as simple as clicking on "View/Show Hidden Files" while browsing files in Nautilus.