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Sansa Fuze V2 Bricked?

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[Saint]:

--- Quote from: saratoga on February 14, 2013, 10:32:29 PM ---<snip>...Usually this means the chip is dead.

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It does?

I think it would accept "this /may/ mean that the flash is dead", but "usually means" doesn't sit well with me - having managed to guide many a user through the restoration of these devices myself (I feel I should also mention that in the times I was unsuccessful in doing so, I can't rule out further user error as the reason the device wasn't recovered).

OP - pop into IRC - we might be able to make some magic happen.


[Saint]

3XTR3M1ST:

--- Quote from: Biber25 on August 08, 2010, 02:05:40 PM ---Hi there;
just have installed rockbox and I'm surprised how good it finally is :)
The only problem I have with it is, that it freezes often; I have listened to an Album
and it froze 2 times.. The last was a hard one like mentioned aboth:
The player doesnt show anything and even with plugged in headphones I dont hear a thing..
You have some ideas? I will wait some days and then trying to plug it in the pc.

Some more information:
I was listening to a track; then it suddenly stopped; when I came onto the playing screen of my Fuze v2 it said "paused". I pressed play: then it froze.
I tried to restart it with the 10s off method: Everything turned off but I couldnt restart it.
Connecting it to the PC: My pc recognizes that there is a unformated flash divise connected, but nothing happens on the mp3 player.
Listening through the headphones: No sound.
What shall I do?
My Fuze is very new. But I want to run rockbox...

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I just had this exact same problem except that I was listen to the radio when it happened, and it happened on my sansa clip+. Please, if anyone have a solution, tell me!! :'( :'(

3XTR3M1ST:
Just a little update, I unsoldered the battery 12 hours ago to leave it to discharged, by now i believe even a big ass capacitor would have lost everything it has. I did the "hold the power button as long as you can tick" to no avail. When I plug it in the computer USB, it would show a unformatted 4MB disk that is RAW, and no matter how many times I try, it just wouldn't format it successfully.

I have yet to solder the battery back to see if it works, not sure if I should.

Anyway, for the method documented at http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaAMSUnbrick, is it necessary to use a Linux for it? I dont have linux and is running on Win7. Does that mean I can't do the AMSUnbrick at all?

Any other solutions?

3XTR3M1ST:
awww no ones helping?

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: 3XTR3M1ST on March 06, 2013, 12:14:45 AM ---Anyway, for the method documented at http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaAMSUnbrick, is it necessary to use a Linux for it?

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No. You don't.

As this example only uses the 'dd' tool, you can get away with using a Windows dd implementation and MS-DOS/Windows style

My advice before starting any of this process would be to visit the IRC channel and talk to either myself or someone else in real-time.


***Obligatory dd Warning***

Specifying the wrong destination with dd can make you, and your machine, have a seriously bad day. This tool is not a toy, a simple typo could cause irrecoverable data loss - always check the source and destination paths, then check them again, before committing to anything.
NOTE: Some level of "safety" can be had with the above linked dd binary by using the 'filter' property. Renaming the dd binary to "dd-removable.exe" will enforce a filter that only allows writing to removable storage, which could be used to help guard against writing to a fixed system disk.


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