Fuze V2 aparrently bricked after left connected to PC overnight

[RojLinux]

Here's a step-by-step:

Downloaded and successfully installed Rockbox 3.11 on a completely clean fully charged Sansa Fuze V2.
Fuze has a 8Gb Sandisk MicroSD card installed.
Successfully copied 7Gb of music to main player storage.
Successfully copied 7Gb of music to MicroSD card.
Successfully customized audio and miscellaneous settings.

All of the above involved turning the player on and off a couple times - absolutely no problems.

Decided to charge player and plugged it in to leave it charging the way I would with the Sansa OF.  Rockbox had no problem.

Read the manual and saw that I should plug it in while holding down a button with the HOLD setting on.  Tried that and got a message on screen that said "bootloader usb mode" and nothing else.

Ejected Fuze and plugged it in again normally (no HOLD button set) and left it overnight.

This morning I got the Windows 7 machine out of screensaver mode and noticed that the Fuze had a white screen with many lines of text on it that looked like a list but was much too small for me to read.  I ejected the Fuze and the white screen persisted.  I turned the Fuze off and it hasn't turned on since.

Windows does not recognise the Fuze.  In fact it does absolutely nothing when the Fuze is plugged in.  Linux does the same thing - no indication that the Fuze is plugged in.  the Fuze itself stays dark - no activity whatsoever.

I have tried resetting by turning on and holding on the power switch for thirty seconds, one minute and then two minutes and then immediately turning the Fuze on normally (that's three tries).
I have tried setting the HOLD switch and pressing the left key while plugging it into the PC.
I have tried doing the same while plugging it in to a wall USB charger known to work perfectly with my other Fuze V1.

The Fuze V2 stays dark.

Suggestions?

[saratoga]

If you leave it unplugged for a while it'll probably reboot on its own.  The Sandisk players occasionally get stuck like that.

[RojLinux]

Thanks for your reply - I'll do that.  And all I have to say is "wow - poor hardware design.  way to go, Sandisk".

Cheers!

[RojLinux]

If you leave it unplugged for a while it'll probably reboot on its own.  The Sandisk players occasionally get stuck like that.

You were perfectly correct.  It just came back to life.  Now, if I just plug it into the wall via the charger, will that charge the player or is there some special key combination I have to do to get it to charge?

[saratoga]

If you leave it unplugged for a while it'll probably reboot on its own.  The Sandisk players occasionally get stuck like that.

You were perfectly correct.  It just came back to life.  Now, if I just plug it into the wall via the charger, will that charge the player or is there some special key combination I have to do to get it to charge?

If theres no USB host, it'll just charge.  Hold a button if there is a USB host and you want to charge without mounting.  FWIW, the manual does cover this stuff.

[RojLinux]

If you leave it unplugged for a while it'll probably reboot on its own.  The Sandisk players occasionally get stuck like that.

You were perfectly correct.  It just came back to life.  Now, if I just plug it into the wall via the charger, will that charge the player or is there some special key combination I have to do to get it to charge?

If theres no USB host, it'll just charge.  Hold a button if there is a USB host and you want to charge without mounting.  FWIW, the manual does cover this stuff.

I saw that and if you read the post that started this thread, you'll see I did read it and I did get a message on the screen but it didn't indicate "charging" per se.  That's what kicked this whole mess off.  That's also why I asked the question.

[saratoga]

I didn't reread the first post, no. 

[RojLinux]

I didn't reread the first post, no. 

Ahh.

I did read the manual and the message I got when I did the keystroke was somewhat unclear.  As I said it didn't specifically indicate charging and that led me down the garden path...

All good now though - I hope.  It's plugged into the wall and charging and I'm quite happy to use the wall charger henceforth since I have noticed that even with OF, the Windows 7 screensaver produces unpredictable results with Sansa players.

Sincere thanks to all for the good help.

Hopefully I'll get up tomorrow to a fully charged ready-to-go black 8Gb + 8Gb Fuze.

Cheers!

[RojLinux]

Hopefully I'll get up tomorrow to a fully charged ready-to-go black 8Gb + 8Gb Fuze.

The end of the story:

I've beenusing the Fuze V2 with RockBox for two days now.  All is sweetness and light.  Battery life is very good.  Sound quality using Crossfeed, and the EQ with my Sennheiser CX-500s is excellent for this player.  It's responsive, fast and the Cabbie Revolution theme makes it really easy for me to use (I'm visually impaired).

That's a "Happily Ever After" if ever there was one...