Complete Erasion of Rockbox on Sansa Clip

[bobbie.ef]

Hi,
today i wanted to upload Rockbox on my old Sansa Clip but now i'm really pissed off a little bit because it doesn' work.

First of all (as i can remember) i tried to upload Rockbox Utility. It says, that Original FW is needed to be installed, so i downloaded the FW file from Sandisk and putted on my Clip. Now, i can hardly remember what has happened because i've done many other things at the same time. I guess, that the Clip doesn't upload all the necessary files.

Status of now: When i start the Clip, Rockbox screen shows up but it shows Firmware cannot be loaded and please plug in USB. When i now plug in USB i can see the Clip in the Explorer and move files on and off the clip. When i plug out the USB cable the error shows up: PANIC*Unhandled masked IRQ 03: INT_USB (status 0x00000008). In the meantime i tried to put on an original sansa FW .bin file on the clip and started the clip in the forced msc mode. It shows that firmware will be upgraded but after a restart the same things are shown up as described above. What can i do? Do i have a chnace to save my Clip's life?

Now i'm currently formating the Clip. But i do not think that this change anything ;(

Sorry for my english - not a native speaker...

Thanks in advance.
Bob

[saratoga]

Copy a firmware file to your player and reboot into the sandisk firmware.

For what its worth this is in the uninstall section of the manual in more detail.

[bobbie.ef]

i already tried this but it doesn't work. firmware will be installed but after restart player still starts with the rockbox screen...

[saratoga]

i already tried this but it doesn't work. firmware will be installed but after restart player still starts with the rockbox screen...

Are you trying to flash a bin file that has been patched with rockbox?  If so, don't do that.  You need to use a new one from sandisk that does not include the rockbox bootloader.

[jistme]

Hithere,

My problem is kind of the same.

I jumped into installing RockBox on my Sansa Clip (not +) a little recklessly and impatient, probably made some mistakes on not reading instructions well and making some wrong assumptions.

Now when turning on the Clip I get:

- loading firmware File not found (and displaying the RockBox logo)
- display: Plug USB cable
when I plug in USB:
- Bootloader USB mode
when I remove the USB cable:
- Unhandled masked IRQ 03: INT_USB (status 0x00000008)

So there are still remains of RockBox on it.

(I can get it working into Sandisk firmware by holding 'back' button while powering on)

After my f*ing up until now, I proved to myself I'm not savy enough to just keep on experimenting with this. I think I'm lucky I can currently use my player by forcing it with the 'back' button.

I want to bring it back in original state, and then try to follow the manual literately and obedient to still get RockBox on it.
Can somebody please guide me how to remove the current RockBox remains and bring my Clip back to 'factory state' before giving it a new shot?

(I found some posting with a tutorial on recovering, but it mentioned that it was only for the Clip+, and should not be used for the Clip.)

Tia!

[saratoga]

Can somebody please guide me how to remove the current RockBox remains and bring my Clip back to 'factory state' before giving it a new shot?

First reply to this thread.

[bluebrother]

So there are still remains of RockBox on it.

I don't think it's "remains" of Rockbox. As far as I understand the current state you have installed the bootloader but not Rockbox itself.

Rockbox consists of two parts: the bootloader and the main Rockbox. The latter is basically a bunch of files on the player. You need to install both for it to work. If the main binary isn't found by the bootloader (which is always started on startup of the player) it shows an error message.

Boot the player into the Sandisk firmware and connect it to the PC. Run Rockbox Utility and install the "Rockbox" part -- you don't need to install the "Bootloader" part, you already have that. After installation safely eject the player and restart it. It should now be able to run Rockbox. Make sure you select the correct mountpoint (Windows: drive letter) in Rockbox Utility's configuration. If you installed Rockbox to the wrong location before trying to detect the player is likely to pick the wrong mountpoint.

[jistme]

Thnx bluebrother! Fixed it.

Thinking back I probably indeed had made the (stupid) mistake to overlook the correct path to my player.
I did choose the right player model, and got no error messages, and didn't give the 'path' selection any thought at all.

Thanks for your help and fast reply!

[joy77division]

(I can get it working into Sandisk firmware by holding 'back' button while powering on)

THANK YOU!!! My SanDisk Sansa Clip v2 seems to be working again now with the original firmware! All I had to do was format the Clip as FAT32, download the latest v2 firmware image from SanDisk, and hit the back button in order to get it to reboot and overwrite the ROCKbox firmware with the original firmware. If that didn't work, I was afraid that I might have to go through all of this:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=29115.0