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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:
--- Quote from: saratoga on April 02, 2012, 09:56:09 PM ---If you leave it unplugged for a while it'll probably reboot on its own. The Sandisk players occasionally get stuck like that.
--- End quote ---
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:
--- Quote from: RojLinux on April 03, 2012, 10:26:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: saratoga on April 02, 2012, 09:56:09 PM ---If you leave it unplugged for a while it'll probably reboot on its own. The Sandisk players occasionally get stuck like that.
--- End quote ---
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?
--- End quote ---
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.
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