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Sansa Fuze V2 Bricked?

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ljones:
Hello all :)

I've been using rockbox on my sansa fuze (V2) for about a week or so now without any problems. Everything's been working fine.

Unfortunatly while rockbox was running I plugged the sansa's USB cable (which was plugged into my linux PC)  and the screen blanked out. I canot get the fuze to switch back on again x.x .

I've tried holding the reset button in the up position for 30 seconds and 15 seconds and nothing happens. The PC won't recognise that there's even a device connected.

Is the Fuze dead?

thanks

ljones

Chronon:
I don't know much about the construction of this player.  You might try removing the battery if you can't get it to reset and if it's accessible. 

Is there any mention of it from "dmesg" when you plug it in?

ljones:
Nope, no output from dmesg. No life there at all.

One thing I did read elswhere is that this player can look like it is dead when (in theroy at least) it has locked up hars. I also read (as the batteries aen´t easy to get out) that depending on what the player was doing when it went wrong the battery could take from a few days to weeks to run down.

The fuze (v2) looks like a nightmare to open up. I'm guessing it is just clipped together there are no screws to remove.

IRight now I can't be 100% sure either way that the player is either RIP or just locked up hard. Best I could do was to take a small frequency counter and see if anythng was coming out of the fuze which it was when I had the counter close to it.

II may just need to wait or it might be totally dead.

ljones

Chronon:
It's certainly possible.  I would wait a few days, connect it to a charger and see if it will boot.

bobdotexe:
hey, I had the same issue with my fuze v1,

You need to force reboot it!

hold the power swich for 90+ seconds;

btw; your battery has some powe left in it right????

(I had to hold the power swich for like 105 sec, and it booted fine;
had no issues since)

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