How to change my Sansa Clip Zip firmware from MTP to MSC ?

[tooppy]

It is said in the manual :
"The following steps require you to change the setting in Settings → System Settings → USB Mode to MSC from within the original firmware."
Lovely ! In System Setting (Windows7) there is no USB mode ! I found the Sansa in "portable device", I can update the firmware but it always tell me it is in MTP.

Any idea ?

[AlexP]

"from within the original firmware." means on your device, not in Windows.

[tooppy]

Thanks Alex, but do not have this option from the Sansa clip zip.
Nonetheless, people having this device manage to use Rockbox, I wondering how.
This stuff isn't simple.

[nick_p]

but do not have this option from the Sansa clip zip.

What items are listed in the menu reached by choosing Settings > System Settings on the Zip in the original firmware then?

Maybe choose Info and let us know the version number...

Or do you have the Zip set to a language other then English?

[tooppy]

I have no "settings" in the Clip.

Right clic give "defrag","ultradefrag", "import", "backup", "rename" and "properties" where there is just a single window giving just simple info on the clip.
Opening the Clip, I have the files "music", "audiobook","podcast","playlist","record","service" and a file called "DevIcon.fil.
This last file cannot be opened and right clic gives nothing interesting either.

Settings ? None !
How others are doing then ? I am puzzled.

[nick_p]

These menus are on your computer.

We're talking about the menus on the Clip Zip itself.

Disconnect it from the computer, then use the direction keys to navigate the Clip Zip menus on the device itself.

[tooppy]

Thanks Nick.... I am that stupid  ..... sure I find it now.
Lest carry on and see , I should have many other questions for sure.

[tooppy]

I at last managed to install Rockbox but I don't see any differences from the original.
Worse the sound is very weak now.
I don't quite understand this soft. If it is just to change the font but not the main operation GUI, I no use for it.
I have to figure out how to uninstall it now.
I am like you, my eyesight is bad now, just put the spec on then.

[saratoga]

Rockbox looks nothing like the sandisk firmware.  If you see something that looks like the Sandisk firmware, you most likely have not installed rockbox and are in fact just using the Sandisk software.

[tooppy]

you are probably right then, I don't manage to install, not a straight forward task for sure !