Sansa E260R cant start recovery mode! HElp!!!

[chantzguy]

i want rockbox on my e200R because the software sucks. its slow and if you click the "next" button it restarts the song?! 
anyways,

ive opened up e200Rpatcher.exe and it tells me how to do it, so i
1.turn off my sansa e200r
2.put it on hold
3.hold the select button
4. connect it to my pc

but my sansa says "connecting" then "connected" just like it normally would.
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!? HELPPPP!!

[Bagder]

Some lines from IRC:

<saratoga> chantzguy:  what firmware version does your player have?
<chantzguy> V03.01.11A
<Bagder> that's not an e200R then
<chantzguy> but it has "rhapsody channels"
<Llorean> chantzguy: Any firmware version starting with V03 means the player is an e200v2
<chantzguy> lemme guess, rockbox wont work with the v2?
<Llorean> Not yet, it's in-development

[coiley]

My recommendation is put the v2 in a drawer. Buy a Sansa v1. They're dirt cheap.

Do a search for "Sansa e250" or "Sansa e260" at http://www.buy.com or http://www.newegg.com . The refurbished ones ARE dirt cheap!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16855125116&Tpk=sansa%20e260

http://www.buy.com/umerch/q/orderby/4/querytype/home/als/3/display/col/sansa%20e250.html

I have purchased four of them on special sales from buy.com (e250, 60, 80 refurbished) over the past year and they have all been v1 - FULLY compatible with RockBox. Don't look for the ones with gobs of onboard memory. 2G onboard is plenty to install RockBox. (Put your music on plug-in microSD cards - cheaper and more versatile. I now have 15 uSD cards of many various brands from 2G to 8G and ALL of them work with RockBoxed Sansa e250, 60, 80 v1s. Can't go wrong with uSD - in my opinion. I have yet to try a 16G.)

I must point out that 3 out of 4 of my Sansa e200s developed problems with the headphone jack stressing free from the PC board. (I AM hard on equipment.) One of those cases was a refurbished Sansa bad out of the box from buy.com. (I lost the SMD output resistor during the repair and had to replace that teensy SMD output resistor with a relatively huge 1/8 Watt axial. She's solid s a rock now! But I STILL recommend the Sansa e200 - if you are not afraid to get your hands dirty.) My final ultimate solution to the headphone jack stress issue is a homemade dongle that is zip-tied to the corner strap pin on the top of the Sansa. All stress is now on the dongle. Any repairs are now external - to the dongle.

Bottom line: Get a 2G or 4G Sansa e200 v1 refurb for cheap. Resolve Sansa jack stress (it's not just Sansas really - it's ALL personal media devices) with a corner-pin secured dongle.

Rock on! Rock box!

-- Coiley

[methylman]

I cracked the LCD on my rockboxed e280R a few months ago and was quite upset, but then realized I could just pick up an e250 or e260 on the cheap and use SDHC cards to make up the difference in storage!

My question for Coiley (or anyone who knows) is, how can you be sure that the e200s you suggested on newegg and buy.com are V1s? Are all non-rhapsody e200s V1s? Equivalently, are all V2s e200Rs?

I'll probably stock up and get a spare or two because rockbox with 16GB+ SDHC cards dominates the other mp3 player options I'm aware of (video/web/etc.. devices excluded).

[yapper]

My question for Coiley (or anyone who knows) is, how can you be sure that the e200s you suggested on newegg and buy.com are V1s? Are all non-rhapsody e200s V1s? Equivalently, are all V2s e200Rs?

The only sure way to know is to power-up the player and ensure the firmware is V1.xx.xx. If it is V3.xx.xx then it is a V2.

Take a look at this thread for some clues on places selling players:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=19155.0

[methylman]

So all four of these permutations are possible?

i    e200 V1
ii   e200 V2
iii  e200R V1
iv  e200R V2

I know i, iii, and iv exist. I was unsure about ii.

[Bagder]

i    e200 V1
ii   e200 V2
iii  e200R V1
iv  e200R V2

I know i, iii, and iv exist. I was unsure about ii.

Not exactly. There's no e200R v2. The V2 series has Rhapsody support already. The other versions exist.

[Chronon]

Also, SanDisk has shown themselves to be rather lax with their matching of backplates to the actual device being shipped.  We have seen cases where the backplate does not correspond to the actual identity of the device (e.g. a v1 e200 with a v2 backplate).