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The home page should say "Not the v2 Sansas", as opposed to AMS
LambdaCalculus:
--- Quote from: Hillshum on March 06, 2009, 01:56:28 PM ---SanDisk themselves started the whole v2 thing by putting 'v2' on the back, and using the term themselves.
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The problem with that is that SanDisk is also known for just taking whatever parts they have on hand for refurbishing older Sansas. Therefore, you may buy a refurbished v1 Sansa, but it'll have the back cover of a v2 Sansa, and the only way to find out for sure what you got is to look at the firmware version.
I should know; I purchased two c240s from Woot once, and both had v2 backs but were v1 internally.
Hillshum:
They've always supposed to have said v2 on the back, but just not always do
epithetless:
Hillshum and LambdaCalculus379 are right. Sandisk did start releasing players with "v2" on the back at the same time they introduced the v2/AMS hardware...but they weren't at all thorough about always matching the v2 hardware with a v2 backplate (or the v1 hardware with a v1 backplate), which forces us to check the firmware for accurate version identification.
Llorean, if this is news to you and you're looking for evidence, this thread on the Sandisk forums (started in January of 2008) provides pictures of the backplates and reiterates what I just typed above.
saratoga:
I think "(not the AMS models)" should be changed to "(not the AMS models such as the e200v2 and c200v2)" to conform to Sandisk's own naming scheme.
JdGordon:
--- Quote from: Llorean on March 06, 2009, 02:19:35 PM ---Since when do e200v2s have V2 on the back? Where does this information come from?
For ages we've had to identify them by booting them up and checking the firmware version.
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my v2 has the v2 stamp on the back... but yes just because it says v2 doesnt mean it definetly is one
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