fuze v2 manual installation

[djphatic]

Yes, I have put fuzpa.bin and .rockbox on the root of my player. I have no sdcard inserted so it is definately going onto the internal memory.

I have even grabbed an updated mkamsboot which I found on anythingbutipod which supports the latest sansa fuze firmware, though I still have the same issue. 

[funman]

If unmodified firmware doesn't cause an upgrade, perhaps your player has a problem.

Double check you downloaded the correct OF file for fuzev2, (this one for example) and contact Sandisk

[djphatic]

If unmodified firmware doesn't cause an upgrade, perhaps your player has a problem.

Double check you downloaded the correct OF file for fuzev2, (this one for example) and contact Sandisk

Yep, I have triple checked and tried different OF.

When first updated the player I used the Sansa Updater utility rather than manual update, if that is of any significance.

[funman]

Perhaps try to format the fuze from the OF menu and try again, so the partition layout is the original one (no partition, full disk formatted as fat32)

[djphatic]

Apologies, I thought I was using the OF you just linked to but turns out I was using 02.03.31 for some reason.

The 02.03.33 firmware does not work with my version of mkamsboot but when I placed the OF fuzpa.bin and clpp_data.dat and unplugged the USB the firmware update worked.

I guess I need to get a version of mkamsboot which works with 02.03.33.

[djphatic]

Appears that the player must be faulty. Got another Fuze today and no problems installing rockbox, though I didnt let it perform a firmware upgrade with Sansa Update this time - whether that is the key to the problem I do not know.

[funman]

Not so sure, someone on irc today had the same problem, perhaps it's specific to some fuzes (Sandisk wouldn't say faulty since their upgrades work)

[Piki]

It could be that one Fuze was either in MTP mode or had it's USB mode set to Auto Detect and was defaulting to MTP on a Windows computer, in which case you would be putting the firmware on the Internal Memory, but not on the Fuze itself (or something like that). It has to be in MSC mode; in this mode, it shows up as a USB Flash Drive.