Sansa Clips: "Refreshing your media"

[AMJF]

Anyone know enough about the Sansa Clip firmware to know if this can be prevented? After syncing items to the player, it takes up too much time, especially with bigger collections, to go through this process, and I want to know if there's a way of turning off the refresh to save time.

In my old Clip+, the Rockbox firmware was stable enough that I was able to bypass the Sansa firmware directly and avoid this problem, but I've had a Clip Zip for a while now and Rockbox crashes when a USB connection is established, so I HAVE to go through the Sansa firmware so the PC can recognise the player.

So, is there a way of preventing the refresh in Sansa or is there a newer version of Rockbox that doesn't crash with USB?

[saratoga]

Anyone know enough about the Sansa Clip firmware to know if this can be prevented?

I don't think any way is known.  I guess you could add files via a microsd card adapter though.

[AMJF]

Thank you, but I'd rather leave the card in place in the Sansa.

Are there plans for a new Rockbox release for Clip Zip that fixes the USB crash problem?

[saratoga]

Are there plans for a new Rockbox release for Clip Zip that fixes the USB crash problem?

We do new builds daily, but as far as I know, no one is working on USB. 

[ZincAlloy]

There is a USB crash problem on the Clip Zip? I haven't had any issues...

[saratoga]

It depends massively on the host machine.  Theres probably all sorts of things that can go wrong but don't necessarily depending on what the host machine does. 

[AMJF]

There is a USB crash problem on the Clip Zip? I haven't had any issues...

Yes, there is on my Win7 machine from 2010. Otherwise, I wouldn't need to use the Sansa firmware and this problem could be entirely avoided.

[AMJF]

When I try plugging in the Clip Zip when Rockbox is on, the firmware crashes and so Windows doesn't show the MSC drives in WinExp.