Sansa E200 Bricked by Recovery Mode

[Lue]

Hi, may my English is not the best - I'm form Germany.

J have the same problem with my sansa like it is described here, just the blue wheel light.
Recovery mode also did not work. Windows just recognizes that there is something at the USB-Port....

I buyed the player on Ebay as "defect" and i hoped that I could reset it via the recovery mode.
The person I bought it from has only formated the normal space, not the 16mb recovery mode.

I just don't understand how to get the sansa-tool working.

So when I have installed linux, what have I to do next?
My Linux experience seems to be very small (i had Linux on an old computer once a time....)

May you can give me a manual for Idiots? (You have not to descripe that I have to press the power button   )

Thx,

Lue  

[Lue]

Hi, I read the topic again and again.

I gues I have to do it this way:

1)install Linux
2)Download the e200tool.zip
3)Plugin my player (may with center button pressed) and hope that Linux will recognize the player as "portable player..."
4)Start the e200tool (how?)
how I have to go on?

Thank you!

Lue

€dit:
Hi again. I tried this at several pc's with several linux'es.
At my pc Linux had any problem with my S-Ata drivers- no chance to get that thing booted.

At my fathers Laptop: i downloadet the .zip pluged the sansa in (with Hold mode on and centre button pressed) but nothing happened. Neither the program worker nor the Sansa was recognized in any way.

The Windows version also did not work - at least not at 3 PC's. Everytime it's the same.
Start the program and the Window is open just for a part of a sec. and closes it self....in addition to that the sansa just is recognized as "something at the USB Port"


Help me please!

[Bagder]

e200tool is a small app. If you run Linux, you need to build it first. You can download and use the windows version if you have libusb for windows installed first.

[avba0]

Hello and sorry for my English...

My player is also broken and i can't access the recovery mode, so I am trying to use e200tool to recover it, but I don't know exactly how to use it.
When I try to run the e200tool the output is:

avba0@avba0-desktop:~/e200$ sudo ./e200tool recover  BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom
e200tool v0.0.6-alpha (c) by MrH 2006, 2007
Searching for device 0781:0720 ... found!
Initializing USB stub (3460 bytes) ... done!
BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom: No such file or directory

I don't know which file to recover, and as much as I know, the last firmware upgrade before my sansa broke was with this file and another file (pp5022.mi4)

I use Linux since running it on Windows XP doesn't help at all - The tool doesn't recognize my player.
Please help!

[Lue]

e200tool is a small app. If you run Linux, you need to build it first. You can download and use the windows version if you have libusb for windows installed first.

4th Edit:

ah ok...this makes the thing easier...And now i understand the "makefile" (for Linux)

I found the .inf creator and created my Drivers....
and the  Sansa is recognized......but the sansa tool does not work. When I open it, it closes itself! I tried this at 3 different PC's - everytime I open sansatool it closes itself...

Help!? & Thank you

[Bagder]

avba0@avba0-desktop:~/e200$ sudo ./e200tool recover  BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom
e200tool v0.0.6-alpha (c) by MrH 2006, 2007
Searching for device 0781:0720 ... found!
Initializing USB stub (3460 bytes) ... done!
BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom: No such file or directory

And you really have a BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom file there?

[Bagder]

I found the .inf creator and created my Drivers....
and the  Sansa is recognized......but the sansa tool does not work. When I open it, it closes itself! I tried this at 3 different PC's - everytime I open sansatool it closes itself...

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

[Lue]

I found the .inf creator and created my Drivers....
and the  Sansa is recognized......but the sansa tool does not work. When I open it, it closes itself! I tried this at 3 different PC's - everytime I open sansatool it closes itself...

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

ok...

when I start the e200tool for Windows with a double klick the programm starts and then it closes itself. I can see the programm window just for a moment...

May you understand my problem now!?

Thanks

Lue

[Febs]

You probably need to run it from a command prompt.

[Lue]

You probably need to run it from a command prompt.

The same result.......may there is a bug in the actual version?

thx,
Lue

[avba0]

And you really have a BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom file there?

Yes, thats the file (I have also try some other names), and even if it is not exist, is there anything else that could help?

[Bagder]

You probably need to run it from a command prompt.

The same result.......may there is a bug in the actual version?

It still pops up a window that immediately disappears when you run e200tool from a command prompt? What else does it output?

And you have libusb installed as well?

[Bagder]

And you really have a BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom file there?

Yes, thats the file (I have also try some other names), and even if it is not exist, is there anything else that could help?

Sure, invoke the same procedure but run e200tool with a debugger to figure out why you can't do this when many others have already successfully done it.

[avba0]

Sure, invoke the same procedure but run e200tool with a debugger to figure out why you can't do this when many others have already successfully done it.

I don't know programming and I really don't know how to use a debugger, specially when I use Linux.

Is there any chance to use "200tool write ..." to unbreak my Sansa?
If is it possible, then how do I use it; and if not, it seems that there is no escape from studying programming and how to debug...

[Bagder]

Is there any chance to use "200tool write ..." to unbreak my Sansa?

Yes, I would say it is very likely that e200tool can restore your Sansa. Are you really having that BL file in the same directory that you invoke e200tool in? If so, is there a right issue with it? Again, many others have run this exact command so it is a bit strange that it doesn't work for you. Heck, even using strace on the command would tell why it fails to open/load the BL file.

As a matter of fact, I've also just written this "unbrick" instructions page:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SansaE200Unbrick