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Sansa E250: MicroSD Card not reading now

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durand:
Yes, very well. The only problem is that USB support is non existent and you can't record anything yet but I hope that that changes soon. The original firmware on the fuze is utter crap and mine has stopped working with an error about disk space, which I cannot fix. So I'm basically just using rockbox now with a microsd card to transfer files across. So yeah, apart from the OF, the fuze is really nice and rockbox works great on it :)

EDIT: I managed to fix my microsd error. It turned out that I needed to reformat the card, and after that it worked. If your card is being detected in the debug menu then it surely can't be a hardware problem? That's exactly what was happening here.

aarons510:
I'm guessing you have a problem with the electronics that reads data from the MSD or MSDHC card. You should try reinstalling the original Sansa firmware to see if it will then read 1GB or 2GB cards, but I wouldn't be too hopeful.

If your e250 is a v.1., you can upgrade it to 8 GB by taking the daughter card from a broken e280 v.1 and sticking it in your e250. If you have a v.2, you're stuck with 2 GB memory unless you can perform electronic neurosurgery. :(

BlackBolt:
Fuze sounds like it may be a good deal if they are still on sale via Buy.com. Thanks for the info. USB support would be nice but I lived without it on my E250 for awhile.

As far as reformatting, I tried that to no avail. In fact I was trying two cards a 4gig MSDHC card and a 1 gig MSD card. reformated both and the 1gig (which is all the OF should be able to read) wasn't able to detected in the OF as far as I could tell. OF doesn't seem to be able to tell you anything about the card inserted. The only clue I ever got was the database commit and them the music showing up in the lists... which didn't happen.

Also thanks for the info memory hack. I am not looking forward to purchasing another sansa for parts but that is good to know. I am running V.1 btw.

I don't plan on electronic nano-surgery so I may just buy a new sansa or fuze or something completly different and pass this somewhat crippled but useable unit to someone less fortunate.

One last question does anyone know if a OF update may help? If so does anyone know the process? I would have to reinstall the dual boot loader right?

maxpancho:
My MicroSDHC 8g on Sansa e250 v2. RockBOX r28878-101222 doesn't work either. Though when I load origina firmware it can see the music from the card. What can it be?

edit: okay, the new 28888 started to read it.

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