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Sansa Clip+: First Water Damage, Now (Almost) No Display

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mxyzptlk:
Like many, I'm not sure if this post belongs in this forum or elsewhere. Since my question is fairly hardware-specific, I'll post it here.

A couple days ago my Sansa Clip+ took a quick dip in a tub. I yanked it out before it was fully submerged, and it was out of order for a few days.

I disassembled the device and packed it in rice for a few days, and it started up again. However, it will only boot into the original firmware -- it won't properly boot into Rockbox.

It actually will boot into Rockbox, and I can hear sound, but the only thing that appears are a few very bright blue dots at the bottom of the screen.

I can change tracks, alter the volume, and apparently do anything you're supposed to be able to do with it; there's just no display to be seen.

I reformatted the device with the sansa firmware and tried reinstalling Rockbox, and had the same result.

Since the Sansa firmware is working and the display there seems fine, I'm not sure what's up with the Rockbox firmware. Any ideas?

Again, to clarify:

Sansa firmware works fine
Rockbox firmware has no display (except for a few dots along the bottom of the screen)

mxyzptlk:
UPDATE

The standard Sansa Clip+ firmware had recently been updated from 1.02.15 to 1.02.16. I originally had Rockboxed my Clip+ with 1.02.15 firmware, and that worked fine. But apparently the problem was with the 1.02.16 firmware -- that doesn't seem to play well with Rockbox.

But Rockbox seems to work again with the 1.02.15 firmware, and I guess that's problem solved.

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