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Any hope for this bricked Sansa E280?
ljones:
Hello all :)
I'm hoping to unbrick my sansa E280 (Version 1) player here. Trouble is I'm not sure precisely why it got bricked in the first place. Last thing I recall before it became bricked was viewing a picture in rockbox; after a few moments parts of the picture went a strange colour, and apon reset (hold the power down for 30 seconds and switch on again) nothing. The blue wheel light remains on but with nothing on the screen (also I Cannot enter recovery mode by holding down record and having lock on, I can only enter manufacturer mode).
I tried following the instructions here;
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SansaE200Unbrick
and here;
http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/e200tool.html
But to no avail x.x . I cannot get my sansa into recovery mode at all! I've tried reprogramming mine with both i2c-e280.bin (mine is a US sansa E280 with FM radio in) and also the bootloader BL_SD_BOARDSUPPORTSD.rom but these seem to make no difference.
For example:
--- Code: ---root@darkstar:/mnt/downloads/sansa# ./e200tool recover BL_SD_BOARDSUPPORTSD.rom
e200tool v0.2.3-alpha (c) by MrH 2006, 2007
Searching for device 0781:0720 ... found!
Initializing USB stub (4780 bytes) ... done!
Writing 'BL_SD_BOARDSUPPORTSD.rom' to address 0x10600000
Searching for device 6666:e200 ... 9 8 found!
Write at 0x10660198
Write done!
Running from address 0x10600000
Searching for device 6666:e200 ... found!
Execution started!
--- End code ---
But instead of entering recovery mode, the sansa still has the same blue wheel and nothing on the screen. Disconnecting and restarting (holding power down, wait for 30 seconds) gives the same result.
I don't get the 16MB recovery partition on mine at all, just the blue wheel and blank screen. The sansa isn't recognised at all if I try to get into recovery mode. Only manufacturer mode seems to be working, but the sansa is detected incorrectly;
--- Code: ---$ lsusb
..
..
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0781:0720 SanDisk Corp. Sansa C200 series in recovery mode
..
..
--- End code ---
Snag is I have a Sansa E280, not a C200!
I've also tried taking the E280 apart and pushing down carefully on the top of the sansa as mentioned in other threads, though it dosen't seem to do anything.
BTW I also read this;
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SansaC200Erase
I am wondering if that would work for the E280? (Not tried it yet, as it appears to be only for the Cxxx sansas).
Can anyone think what I might be doing wrong, or is my sansa well and truly .... ultra-bricked?
ljones
galiualfre:
Something similar happens to me a few days ago. I was listening to some music and bowsing some photos, then the screen just went to white. It was very strange of course, so waht I did was holding the power button for more than 30 seconds, it turned off, then I pressed the power button again and it hopely started...it's very strange that you've done so many things and it just don't work
ljones:
Yeah x.x it just will not go back into recovery mode, no matter what I try. I'm wondering if its memory chip is dead? :( either that or maybe somehow corrupt in some way -- if only the whole thing could be wiped clean!
ljones
saratoga:
The memory daughter board could have come lose. That will kick you into manufactoring mode suddenly if it happens. You could try opening it up and putting them back in.
herefornow:
Read this thread all the way through. It helped me and others with similar problem.
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=21908.0
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