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Sansa E200 Bricked by Recovery Mode
dan_a:
--- Quote from: Ab on January 30, 2007, 03:48:38 PM ---how do I get e200tool to work with the sansa in the recovery mode?
--- End quote ---
If you can get to recovery mode, you don't need e200tool!
A_BIRDY:
Alright, here's how things stand:
VMware is running Debian (with X 'cuz I like KDE).
I've got E200Tool compiled and running.
When I connect the Sansa, it's recognized by VMware as "PortalPlayer USB Device."
When I try to run ./e200tool recover pribootloader.rom or BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom,
E200Tool cannot find the device 0781:0720.
I'm probably screwed at this point because that might mean the sansa isn't in manufacturing mode at all.
Again, the player will not boot, will not enter recovery mode, never turns on the back light, and just keeps the scroll wheel lit. Turning it off takes ~15 seconds.
If I try to connect the player without holding any buttons, it won't be recognized. If I hold any button when it's off and then connect the cable, regardless of hold switch position, the player is recognized as "Portal blah blah..."
I should send it to SanDisk at this point... What do you think?
Bagder:
Congratulations, you have advanced to the final level of this game. The prebootloader USB mode, that exists before the Manufacturing mode. This probably happens due to a corrupted i2c rom.
Let me stress that nobody has been there before and that the following advice may work or may harm your device or whatever, we just don't know enough and of course you proceed on your own without any warranties.
I've uploaded e200tool 0.0.6 fresh from MrH, with an added ability to recognize the player while in this mode. Just redownload the source zip.
if e200tool does work and nothing else helps, you could try to fix the i2c rom by uploading the dump of MrH's i2c bootrom:
http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/e200tool/i2c.bin
Good luck!
hallgreng:
Hi there,
long-time lurker, first time poster.
Anyway, I seem to have busted my sansa (e270) in the same way. I did the stupid thing and fsck.vfat'd both partitions and then unplugged it.
It wont go into recovery mode, isnt discovered by e200tool, fits the same symptoms as Birdy's sansa, and achieves the same results (sans the PortalPlayer message) when following what he has done in this thread.
I'm also happy to see if this will work, but the problem is that I am unable (compile-time errors) to build e200tool from source in linux (debian unstable and stable both tried) w/respective usblib-devs) and had to use the insufficient win32 port (0.0.4a).
If someone could provide a static binary of 0.0.6 or some assistance (through PMs or another thread to keep this one uncluttered) to get e200tool to build for me, I would be glad to be another guinea pig.
Thanks for the hard work!
Bagder:
1. On my debian systems I can build the tool fine with "libusb-0.1-4" and "libusb-dev" installed. You may want the Makefile I wrote for it, provided here: http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/e200tool/Makefile
2. I have a e200tool binary built for Debian unstable available here:
http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/e200tool/e200tool
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