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Clip Zip probably bricked.

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saratoga:
If you haven't actually flashed anything to your player yet, the recovery procedure may or may not help you. Its for recovering from a bad flash that erased the disk. It won't fix a broken player in general. Since you never actually flashed anything I don't see why the flash memory would have been erased unless the chip died.

tent:
Hello,
 why do you think I've never flashed the unit? It flashed for sure at least the bootloader, what failed was copying the content of filesystem to the flash since I found the content on the wrong drive afterwards. But what the fact is, after rebooting the sansa gets in such stuck situation where the "S" logo moves couple of times and then freezes. Whatever it is I belive my only chance is to try to get access to the flash and see what happens if I manually restore it's content. Otherwise I have impression that suggestions of everybody here is somethink like: "forget it and just thorw it away" like no further possibility is available. Eventually I have also a JTAG programmer, if that could be of any use I would be willing to try that as well if some instructions or hints are available for the clip zip.

tent:wq

torne:
Flashing works by copying the new firmware file to the drive, and then when you disconnect the USB connection it detects the file and flashes itself. The rockbox installer cannot flash the player directly. So, if you never installed it to the right drive then it won't have flashed anything.

[Saint]:
Is it under warranty still?

Your best bet, is to talk to SanDisk...since no Rockbox code ever actually touched the device, you would not have voided the warranty. It is rather a shame that such a length of time has passed, seeing the log of the installation and error logs from your machine may have helped, but that data has almost certainly been blown away by now. I rather suspect the only interesting logs would be from the host machine, all Rockbox Utility is likely to show is a "successful installation" - to the wrong disc altogether - but at least then there would be some clear evidence that Rockbox Utility never touched the device and didn't cause this issue.

The behaviour suggests the flash just...died.

Anyhoo...almost certainly too late now, so...yeah.

Talk to SanDisk, if you're under warranty still...great, if not, I'm really sorry but that is the limit of support that can be offered.

No one here is sitting on a recovery procedure for this device and keeping it to themselves, no one can give you that information because we simply just don't know it...we're just as in the dark as you are. You asked in the other thread how the AMS recovery was found, and, as far as I know it involved the complete destruction of at least one of each of the devices in question and following the traces on the board. There is no guarantee that the Clip Zip even has this "feature" (I am positive that it isn't deliberate) either.


[Saint]

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