Sansa e280 won't go out of USB mode

[cBc]

My Rockboxed e-280 has been faultless since forever, but I'm suddenly having this problem.
I connected it to my desktop (Win XP Pro) & transferred some files to it. I have an 8GB card in addition to the onboard 8GB. When I tried to access the onboard memory, it shows the Music folder, but nothing inside of it. I  unmounted the player inside Windows and unplugged it from the connection, but the USB gui screen remained & I have to pull off the cover & remove the battery to get it to stop. I re-inserted it again, but same result. The battery shows as fully charged in Rockbox, but when I had it boot up under the OF, it showed the charging icon running rather quickly.
I used it last night w/ RB & it playsfine, but am hoping to solve this.

Thanks in advance

[AlexP]

It is probably worth checking for disk errors with chkdsk - from what I remember the syntax is "chkdsk -f drive:" where drive is e.g. e:

[cBc]

Thank you for the response. Can you advise on how to do this?
The Sansa shows up as drive R
So in dos command window under r: I do
chkdsk -f ?


sorry...it's been a while ..lol

update, never mind, found it in the archives. Will try it tonight.
thank you.

[AlexP]

no, "chkdsk -f r:" 

(check out what I said in my previous post, it is exactly that

[cBc]

hm..ok.
This is the method I found in a post back a few years here:

If you are having problems with file corruption, you can try CHKDSK without having to delete all the music/video's/pictures off your player.


Running CHKDSK - connect e200 in MSC mode, view in windows explorer, right click on SANSA E200, Properties, Tools, Error-checking, check Automatically fix file system errors, Start and let it do it’s thing.

[AlexP]

That is scandisk, not chkdsk I think.

chkdsk won't delete anything either.

Open a command prompt with the sansa connected, and type

"chkdsk -f r:"

assuming that your Sansa is r:

[cBc]

Got home today & connected the Sansa & tried the chkdsk. The Sansa is indicated in Win Explorer as being drive S

so in cmd window I put in:
chkdsk -f s:
but get a bad parameter - s
I booted up the rockbox utility & completely uninstalled Rockbox, then did a clean reinstall, along with fonts, which seemed to go normally. Tried to load in a theme too, but it said there were no themes available for taget. Grabbed Wide Cabbie manually & attempted to upzip & drop it on the player but got:
If I click on any of the folders on the Sansa, none of them will open & under properties, show 0 bytes .I can dismount the player from the PC, though the USB screen still show & I have to hold down the power button like 20 secs for it to shut off. Also tried the other method I described earlier (which does allow you to call up both chkdsk & repair damaged files, but it starts running as phase 1 & then just hangs with no progress. So am I SOL on this thing?

update: Tried again & was able to do chkdsk via the right click/Properties/Tools. It took a long time , but completed. Didn't indicate anything was amiss. And still stays stuck in USB mode after unmounting. Heck if I could figure out how to put back Wide Cabbie, I could live with it as is

[GodEater]

Hi, AlexP is clearly starting to forget his windows lore

It should be :

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chkdsk S: /F /X

[bluebrother]

I booted up the rockbox utility & completely uninstalled Rockbox, then did a clean reinstall, along with fonts, which seemed to go normally. Tried to load in a theme too, but it said there were no themes available for taget.

See this thread: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=23679.msg160969

update: Tried again & was able to do chkdsk via the right click/Properties/Tools.

This is not chkdsk, this is scandisk. While both tools do a similar job chkdsk (from my experience) detects more problems than scandisk does. If you haven't done in the meantime I suggest running chkdsk /f (make sure to use the option /f).

[AlexP]

Hehe, my bad indeed!  It is quite a long time since I used chkdsk under Windows.  Sorry for the confusion.

[cBc]

Hehe, my bad indeed!  It is quite a long time since I used chkdsk under Windows.  Sorry for the confusion.

lol..see? I'm not the only one.
OK tried again with correct syntax, and it worked. It basically said every single folder was completely unreadable and was removed. yikes !
I dismounte/remounted it (it still hangs up in multimedia mode after I remove it) whew, luckily everything seems to still be there.
I was able to use the SVN build of rbutil to load my theme.
So I guess I'm stuck with the "won't get out of USB mode unless I hold down the power button each time. oh, well... 

[bluebrother]

So I guess I'm stuck with the "won't get out of USB mode unless I hold down the power button each time. oh, well... 

Have you tried disabling the USB HID feature? It's somewhere in the system settings.

[cBc]

Haven't yet - noticed it in settings , but wasn't sure what it was. Will try that this evening.

Thanks for all the input here - an upside is that I finally got the newer  bootloader installed, so now it boots directly to RB when USB is connected. suh-weet.

Update: Turned USB HID off, and tried connecting it again. This time Windows opened the "what do you wish to do with this?, window, which is new from before. I opened Win Explorer & attempted to access any of the folders under the Sansa, but after "thinking about it" for a few seconds, all the little arrows pointing at each folder disappear & nothing will show in the right Explorer pane. Which means I can never change or remove the music on the internal flash memory.