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Problems On Gigabeat S
PkTroN:
Im not shure if this post goes here... so srry if im wrong.
I recently tried to install rockbox on my gigabeat S, i followed the manual and i had a lot of problem, 4 times the gigabeat showed me a screen with a request for update or repair the program, finally i did usin the beast patcher and the .rockbox carpet as says in the manual i was so freakin happy but when i turned off and on the gigabeat it came with the same screen i resseted but nothin happens now it apprears to be 2 partitions 1 without the nk file an other with it i put the .rockbox carpet on both and at the loadin it says 0 files found...
can someone help me???
Phalangees:
I would highly recommend you try using the Rockbox Utility: http://www.rockbox.org/download/
It should be able to automatically install Rockbox correctly.
torne:
The Gigabeat S boot code is very very picky about the state of the device, and if it sees anything it dislikes it immediately reformats the hard drive and requires firmware restoration. This happens very frequently for some people, and rarely/never for others, with very little pattern that we have been able to figure out yet.
One thing that appears to make it much more reliable is to install a dual-boot bootloader (one created by providing beastpatcher with a copy of the original firmware file). The easier-to-install single-boot bootloader which can only load Rockbox appears to cause much more frequent reformats.
PkTroN:
--- Quote from: Phalangees on September 23, 2011, 09:50:53 AM ---I would highly recommend you try using the Rockbox Utility: http://www.rockbox.org/download/
It should be able to automatically install Rockbox correctly.
--- End quote ---
Utility doesnt work at Gigabeat S =(
--- Quote from: torne on September 23, 2011, 11:41:28 AM ---The Gigabeat S boot code is very very picky about the state of the device, and if it sees anything it dislikes it immediately reformats the hard drive and requires firmware restoration. This happens very frequently for some people, and rarely/never for others, with very little pattern that we have been able to figure out yet.
One thing that appears to make it much more reliable is to install a dual-boot bootloader (one created by providing beastpatcher with a copy of the original firmware file). The easier-to-install single-boot bootloader which can only load Rockbox appears to cause much more frequent reformats.
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how can i restore firmware??
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: PkTroN on September 23, 2011, 12:46:06 PM ---Utility doesnt work at Gigabeat S =(
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It does, if you enable "Show disabled targets" in the configuration dialog. It does not support installing the bootloader though, you need to do that using beastpatcher first.
--- Quote from: torne on September 23, 2011, 11:41:28 AM ---The Gigabeat S boot code is very very picky about the state of the device, and if it sees anything it dislikes it immediately reformats the hard drive and requires firmware restoration. This happens very frequently for some people, and rarely/never for others, with very little pattern that we have been able to figure out yet.
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There's a tracker entry that describes the behaviour: FS#9778. It's been confirmed that this is related to the version of the Toshiba bootloader installed on the player -- I could confirm that myself. It's not understood what the newer bootloader versions dislike about the single boot bootloader.
--- Quote --- how can i restore firmware??
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Send the original firmware to the player using beastpatcher, or send a dual-boot firmware to it:
--- Code: ---beastpatcher -d nk.bin bootloader.bin
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or
--- Code: ---beastpatcher -s nk.bin
--- End code ---
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