Hi,
I have a SanDisk Clip+ 4 GB MP3 player. It has Rockbox installed on it. I've used it for many years and it has worked great.
Yesterday it was working perfectly and I was listening to a file. Let's call it File A. At one point I turned the player off. When I turned it back on, normally it would play from the point in File A where I left off. Instead, it started playing from the beginning of File A. No matter where I left off, if I turned it off and back on, it starts back at the beginning of File A.
Then I tested listening to a different file, let's say File B. I turn it off and back on. It starts at the beginning of File A, not File B.
No matter what I play, if I turn it off and back on, it always starts at the beginning of File A.
Then I noticed another thing had suddenly stopped working. I can't create a new bookmark. I click Create Bookmark as I always do. But then when I look at the Recent Bookmarks list, it's the same list as before without the new bookmark I just created listed.
As far as I can tell, everything else works normally. I can play files the same as always. But if I try to create a bookmark I can't. And if I turn the player off and back on, it starts at the beginning of File A instead of at the point in where I left off in the last file I played.
I've tried everything I can think of to fix this or even just start from scratch again and reinstall.
I tried reinstalling Rockbox.
I tried running Windows Disk Check but no matter how I try, even on multiple computers with different OS's, it always says the Disk Check failed to complete.
I've tried many times to format it to a clean FAT32 format, also on multiple computers with different OS's, but the format also always says it failed to complete.
I simply can't find any way to get back to scratch and reinstall.
The weird thing too is I've gone in and tried manually deleting as many files as I can. But no matter what I do, every time I turn it back on, the same Recent Bookmarks list is there! I figured maybe if I can delete wherever it's storing that list I could try starting a new file and list of bookmarks. But no matter which files I delete, it's like I can't find where it's keeping that old list and it always pops back up.
Is there anything else I can try to get this working again? It seems like it's just these 2 things not working. And I'm willing to wipe the whole thing and start over if only I could figure out how to. I'd hate to have to find a new one of these as this model is outdated and hard to find and this one has served me so well.
One last thing that may be relevant. When I try to initialize the database it ends up saying *Panic* Updated size on empty dir 36 and then some other code. So I tried deleting all the database files in the Rockbox folder manually, hoping it would start fresh, but they just come back and the same thing happens. Really stumped.