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I just bricked my Sansa Fuze...? *cries*

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Sakura90:
Well... there it goes. My beloved little Sansa Fuze (v2) :'(

Let me tell you the story. I was trying to make a font so I plugged and unplugged the Sansa 2 or 3 times (plug, copy fonts, unplug, try fonts, plug again to copy others). I did that 2 times. Then I turned the Sansa off (for half an hour more or less), looked for more fonts to convert, converted them to FNT, turned on and plugged again the Sansa.

This is when the first oddity happens. On the Sansa, in USB mode a big USB plug is displayed and below the status bar. On a corner of the status bar some colored artifacts appeared, forming a little square, just at the right corner of the bar. I didn't care, the device and SD card appeared on the Explorer and I copied the files.

Then I safely removed the Sansa (like I always do, it removes both drives, internal memory and SD) and turned the wheel to get the screen on. The screen was all blank, with only the letters "SW1" on the top left corner. The buttons didn't respond. I unplugged the USB and that screen remained, so I turned off the Sansa.

Brick.

It never turned on again, nor by the power switch nor connecting the USB. Tried holding the power switch on for a minute and nothing. My little Sansa is a well and sound brick.

Why? WHY? *cries*

Maybe I was careless, but forever the USB driver or whatever on Rockbox wasn't the most stable. Sometimes I plugged the Sansa, and while the USB plug on the screen showed up, the device hanged and the drives didn't appear on the Explorer. Keeping the switch to power off the Sansa for several seconds turned off the device and, upon trying again, everything worked.

Sometimes it was the reverse, upon disconnecting the device hanged with the USB plug screen and switching off and on made it start again. Still, this case was very rare, the hang upon USB plugging was more common, but nothing to bothersome, usually it didn't hanged.


Any ideas? At this point I'm not so sure if the last display was "SW1", I barely read it. But those letters stuck to me, "SW1", that must be it. What do they mean? I connected the Sansa thousands of times to the PC and it all went well.

I've had Rockbox since the days of the e250, then moved to the Fuze because I love the tiny size, I have proper Japanese support and find music player apps for phones lacking (and ofc, the Sansa is much more comfortable to use).

Is there anyway to revive my little thing? Is it dead forever? Should I get another one? (the old model with the wheel, I don't like the crappy new one with the touch pad). Thing is... I live in a crappy country where importing stuff is a pain, even getting currency exchange is near-to-impossible here... :'(


Thanks for the help


P.S.: I was using a build from several months back, hard to tell now...

Was going to update it to 3.11.2 (saw it today, I don't come to the site too often) but got carried away trying the fonts... <_<

saratoga:
Let the battery run dead, then when it reboots update to the current dev build which probably has this fixed. 

Sakura90:
Run dead? But it appears to be off (I switched it off the last time and that was the last thing the Sansa did). Won't the battery take months to run dead on a powered off device?

Or leaving it like this for a day should run the battery to 0?

saratoga:
Takes like a day or two.

Sakura90:
Well, I leave it like this then, and pray for it to turn back on after the battery runs dry in 1-2 days. I'll post again after that time to tell what happened...

I'll miss it so much... *prays*

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