Sansa Fuze v2 bricked?

[dkddkd13]

OK, I broke my sansa fuze v2 so I got new one with a micro SD card.
I put the music on my sd card but I hate to see the unuse, so I made files and folders all hide in sansa memory.
Then when I plugged it out some white screen with text shows up for sec and turns off by it self.

It never charges when I plugged it on, not even recognize on my computer, 10~90s power button trick doesn't work, tried everything I could but doesn't work.

Please help!

[rmpf]

Hi, yesterday after upgrading my sansa fuze I tried three times to changes the theme but the player reboot then it power off until now. I don't now was happening but it didn't turn on again. I tried to charge it without success, I know the battery was fine, has to be some kind of trouble with the firmware. Please someone take attention to this before more players get damages!!!!!!

[bertrik]

It is highly unlikely that something was damaged

The white-screen-with-text is probably a panic screen, does it say something about (65536 > 0) and ... _no_alloc?

If it is what I think it is, you may be able to work around it as follows:
* boot into the original firmware (hold the left/previous button while booting)
* remove all files ending in .tcd from the .rockbox directory on the player
* shutdown the player and boot into rockbox (this should now be possible again)
* in the settings, disable voice menus (settings / general settings / voice / voice menus) and enable dircache (settings / general settings / system / disk / directory cache)
* rebuild the database
This is only a temporary workaround for a bug in rockbox.

I don't know about the problem when changing the theme.

[rmpf]

Hi, I really expect to found some workaround !!! I already try to boot into the original firmware without success.

I really love rockbox but I wasn't expecting to loose my new player so early. Taking the battery apart may help?

[saratoga]

You can't remove the battery without cutting wires. Worst case you might have to wait for it to die, although usually you can reboot the fuze by holding power for a long time.

[rmpf]

Hi, what do you mean with "Worst case you might have to wait for it to die"

[saratoga]

Hi, what do you mean with "Worst case you might have to wait for it to die"

When a battery is fully discharged it is said to be "dead".  Since you can't remove the battery, you might have to wait for it to discharge.

[Serenity]

I accidentally unplugged the USB on my Fuze v2 without unmounting it (thought it was the cable to my external HDD). I got the white Panic screen and now it's completely unresponsive, just like dkddkd13's. I can't boot into the OFW or reset, so I'll throw it in a drawer for now and see how long it takes my freshly charged battery to drain.

Edit 27 June: That worked a treat! Battery drained, I booted into the Sansa firmware, reinstalled Rockbox (just in case) and I'm back in business! Thanks saratoga!