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[Help] Sansa Clip v2 bricked, NAND reset OK, what next?
Chronon:
It sounds like it will be a nice addition to the wiki. :)
audiomodder1:
Sorry to bump an old thread, but as Darko never posted the info (I can't find it) and I found out the fix with the help of TheSeven on IRC so I thought I would share it here:
I got a bricked player that would not format or delete partitions on the internal SD. It seemed screwed. Here's what worked:
**FOLLOW AT YOUR OWN RISK, TRY ASKING ON IRC TOO**
1) if you can't format OR delete your partitions you can try doing so in recovery mode
2) desolder your battery
3) short the pins shown on your player here: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaAMSUnbrick
4) connect to USB. If you see 1GB, 2GB, etc. like your players original size, continue. If you see 4MB, or 32MB your player is probably not fixable.
5) do a SLOW COMPLETE format of your player in recovery mode (if it is in recovery your display should be blank) for FAT32
6) download Win32 Disk Imager: http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/?source=dlp
7) download the latest firmware for your player
8) Install Win32 Disk Imager and run it. Select your firmware (after unzipping it, should be like clppa.bin for Clip+)
9) Select the drive of your player (MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS CORRECT OR YOU WILL MESS UP YOUR HD)
10) do NOT select "MD5 Hash" Select Write
11) After writing is complete, disconnect your player. It should have the display working now.
12) With the Recovery Mode disabled (no wires on your jumper), plug your player into USB power only, or reconnect the battery.
13) If it still does not work "FAT corrupted" error, connect to USB.
14) Delete the partition completely and reformat FAT 32 with 32kb allocation size.
15) Now it should work!!
Thanks again to TheSeven on IRC for helping me with this fix.
-Audiomodder
Darko:
Hi audiomodder1,
you could simply click on my nickname and check all my posts, tutorial was posted in the forums and in the wiki page.
here is a link to forum version:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,29115
PS yes, my Sansa Clip v2 is still operational if you ever wondered, but without Rockbox. I've got iRiver H10 and sucessfully rbox'ed it, much more powerfull HW and sound. Though, no time for music on the go anymore :-(
Glad you made it,
Regards :)
saratoga:
Actually the H10 is a much less powerful device, although it does have a real screen.
[Saint]:
I'm somewhat sceptical of the advice to format the volume, sure, it worked for you - but this isn't an exact science by any means.
The reason I would be tempted to avoid it, and write in a *rockbox modified* firmware image, is that in the past I have encountered several devices that were left incapable of booting the original firmware after a "recovery" (I use the quotes, because, well...you get it, I'm sure), and required someone with a working player to do a full dump of the volume, and that to be written to the device, in order to restore the original firmware.
I can only speculate that here may be some particular magic there that the OF wants to look at during boot that gets wiped out.
But honestly, I don;t think there is anything one could consider a textbook case of recovery in this regard, it is a miracle it works at all for anyone, I guess.
[Saint]
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