Support and General Use > Hardware

Clip+ potentially dead... but recognized by PC?

<< < (2/2)

Frankenpod:
Out of interest, do other devices, other than the Sansas, also depend on limited-lifespan internal flash to function?  Are the Sansa's particularly prone to failure of that flash?

Bilgus:
I'm sure there are other devices that do but I think the sansas have a 'special' trifecta going for them

cheap components
emulated fat32 that uses a raw area of the device to 'hide' the bootloader / firmware
brittle boot process

Also the devices are quite widespread (and loved after being rockboxed (: )

johnb:
Any ideas if the mounting of the internal drive would also affect lifetime (and should be disabled also)?

I have a clip+ with the multiboot, that recently got stuck in the bootloading and after a while displayed:
Cannot find firmware file        or
Plug USB

Shutting it off, it usaually worked on the second try. This happens intermittently.

Bilgus:
I can't say for sure but you figure it has to read the bootloader from the internal drive anyways so I doubt it would make much difference

Jorpho:
You might be able to get some more verbose information if you boot Linux.  (You can boot it from an optical disc or a USB drive without affecting the rest of your system.)

I documented some of my experiences in this old thread.  Unfortunately I was never successful.
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,50831.msg235163.html

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page