Fuze V1 stuck on Scanning Disk...

[B Wooster]

Hello there,

I've been a fan of Rockbox since the days of the ARchos Studio, however since upgrading my Fuze to 3.9 I've been having problems. First, I was having the file transfer issues detailed in another thread (Fuze would crash before completing file transfer). Now however, the player is refusing to boot at all, boot screen shows the "scanning disk" message for a few seconds before freezing to a white screen with the message "Undefined instruction at 300971F8".

Have tried booting the original firmware by holding <<, Sansa logo appears before giving me the message "Not enough space for music DB, please free 90mb." then switches itself off.

Tried connecting to the pc, but XP doesn't recognise the device.

Tried leaving the Fuze with the white screen on, waiting for the battery to run down. It switched itself off in a couple of hours and didn't fix the problem.

Is that it then?

Hope someone can help.

[saratoga]

Sounds like this situation:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaAMS#Formatting_a_Player_that_cannot_get_past_the_Database_Refresh_in_the_OF

[B Wooster]

Wow, thanks for your quick reply. I think that's fixed it. Incredibly fiddly job, cracking the Fuze open and bridging the two pins on the circuit board as your link instructed. Didn't know how to execute "sudo fdisk -l", but after a couple of repeats of bridge pins/connect USB/turn on Fuze, it just booted normally. I really appreciate your help and all the work of everybody connected with this project over the years.

[Chronon]

I'm glad you got it working, but this is the part he was pointing you to:

Formatting a Player that cannot get past the Database Refresh in the OF

If you damage the filesystem on the internal SD you can find yourself in a situation where the database refresh in the OF hangs up and you will be unable to boot into the OF and also unable to connect via usb to correct the problem. If you find yourself in this situation you can bypass the OF database refresh by connecting your player via usb and disconnecting it just after the Sandisk logo appears on the screen. This will bring you into the normal top menu in the OF and you can then format your player through the settings menu.

[saratoga]

Incredibly fiddly job, cracking the Fuze open and bridging the two pins on the circuit board as your link instructed. Didn't know how to execute "sudo fdisk -l", but after a couple of repeats of bridge pins/connect USB/turn on Fuze, it just booted normally.

wow I would not have recommended trying that, but good it worked.