Sansa e200 V1 USB

[AstroBoy]

I just updated my Sansa E250 to the latest RB and plugged in the USB while RB was running.  Normally it would reboot into OF or hang.  Now I get a picture of a USB connector and it seems fully functional!  WOW!  Thanks.  Is it safe to use?  Any risk of file corruption?

[cool_walking_]

It should be safe, otherwise they wouldn't have enabled it.  It's been in progress (and tested along the way) for quite a while.  It's only now been enabled in current builds because a corruption bug that had been known for a long time has been fixed.  Basically, I think all the known bugs are gone.

Before it was enabled in current builds, a test build was made available to try to hammer out bugs.  Last time I saw the thread, which seems to have been deleted, about 20 people had used it, and I think it only turned up 1 minor bug (didn't cause corruption), which has since been fixed.

[Bryan.Brake]

I have an e260R, and I can access the USB host from my OpenBSD box.  Your USB works better than the original firmware does. 

Many thanks for the hard work...

Kind regards,
Bryan Brake

[Daveybaby]

Fantastic work! Thanks to all involved. 

[epithetless]

Yes, a big thank you to the Rockbox team! Kudos! Quick question, though: For the e200 to automatically boot into Rockbox from an off state when connected to a computer (vs. booting into the OF, as it does now), we would need a new bootloader, correct?

[soap]

Yes, a big thank you to the Rockbox team! Kudos! Quick question, though: For the e200 to automatically boot into Rockbox from an off state when connected to a computer (vs. booting into the OF, as it does now), we would need a new bootloader, correct?

Correct.  Such does not exist yet, TTBoMK.

[evilnick]

Full words please soap 

[dreamlayers]

New bootloaders are being tested:
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/9955

[epithetless]

Thanks, dreamlayers! My e280 and c250 seem to have taken to the test bootloaders just fine!

[soap]

Full words please soap 

To The Best Of My Knowledge

[ThaCrip]

about those 'bootloaders'

it's just a "PP5022.mi4" file... any idea on how to use those on a e200 series player?

cause before i ran a 'sansapatcher.exe' file in order to change bootloader

EDIT: nevermind i figured it out... all you had to do was a 'sansapatcher.exe -a PP5022.mi4' (when device was connected) and it worked. from brief testing it seems when e250 is off and i connect USB cable to PC it boots into Rockbox instead of original firmware

p.s. finally, no crappy original firmware needed at all now... which is really nice as i got tired of deleting those files that the original firmware creates on your device every time the original Sansa firmware was booted up.