c240 auto repaired!

[walkmanrevo]

After weeks of fiddling to repair my sisters sansa c240 (recover, manufacturing mode, pre boot mode et etc), i gave up and I just left it and started looking for a new player.

oh btw thanks to gevaerts for trying to help me out.

Today my sis just happened to in one  desperate mode, pressed the power button and lo-behold the darn thing turned on with some reluctancy. It went into some sort of repair mode.
It was still sort of corrupt, so I thought I try the recovery mode in windows (never worked b4). The 16mb partition was recognised by windows. wow!
I then copied over the 3 firmware files from sandisk site.
The player then worked, but slower than it use to. After i played some music in it, I set thought about putting rockbox back to use the 8gb microsd card.

Rockbox utility would detect the device but when installing, it said "no sansa found" I then found about sansapatcher; that worked!
(coincidentally, about a 6-9 months when I originally installed rockbox, it had no problems installing from a-z!)

Went back to rockbox utility to install the remainder. everything went smoothly.

After a reboot the rockbox bootloder shows v5, then a next screen with ver. r19569-081223 and just stays frozen with that and the rockbox logo. nothing else!! nooooooo!!

After all the blood, sweat and tears it should know have worked.

Ive reset/reboot many times but it just stay on that screen. after a 10-15 secs it go blank (powersaving or someting) until you press a button. Leave it for a couple of minutes and it turns off.

ANY BODY PLEASE SHED SOME LIGHT ON THIS LAST EQUATION-

I have installed/uninstalled rockbox 3-4 times.

Please help

[robin0800]

First off try the format option from the OF having first removed the sdhc card, then reinstall rockbox

Secondly the firmware on the Sansa site is old you could use the Sansa updater to get the latest one

[walkmanrevo]

Hello, thanks for that.

I installed the latest firmware via sandisks firmware tool.

I then formatted and reinstalled rockbox. (manually for the bootloader via sanspatcher.)

What I have now realised is that the battery indicator would be full in the sandisks os, but once i do get into rockbox after 4-5 reboots and waiting time, the battery shows its completely flat all this with 10-15 mins of rebooting again and again.

if i then go back to sandisks os, it also states battery low.

something is radically draing the battery fast. after its completely flat only the menu light comes on, seems to back to problamatic state.

any clues or is it hardware malfunction. coincidentally if i use the the sandisks os, it stays on, battery does not deplete fast, works as normal.