Third Party > Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players
Sansa E200 Bricked by Recovery Mode
travisty:
I don't mean to drag this out. I assume you are referring to these instructions.
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Restoring I2C boot rom on Sansa e200
Since the i2c.bin file is supposed to be written to the i2c ROM and e200tool does not have any i2c support (at least not yet), the proper procedure is
1. Get to the recovery mode
e200tool recover BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom (hold 'rec')
If you succeed,
2. Copy i2c.bin to the recovery 'disk'
3. Disconnect the player and hope the recovery mode writes the .bin to the i2c rom.
I don't know if it will, but I think it might. If it won't, renaming it to sdbootrom.bin might help.
The i2c.bin is just dumped from MrH's e260. We have no idea if there are different versions of it etc. It may or may not work for others.
SO IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS THAT WHILE DOING THIS MAY (WITH SOME LUCK) FIX THE I2C ROM, IT MIGHT VERY WELL BRICK THE PLAYER EVEN FURTHER! DO NOT TRY THIS UNLESS NOTHING ELSE WORKS!
If you succeed, the i2c ROM should not be corrected and you should now be able to boot to either 'manufacturing mode', 'recovery mode' or to the actual firmware.
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I think that I fall in to the if you succeed category because I can't follow those steps. There is no mounted portion. I also been on the anythingbutipod forums and they claim I need the I2c support that doesn't exist at this point.
Brambo:
Hello people,
I've got a big problem  :'(
just like others mentioned before, my sansa e270 doesn't boot anymore, only black screen and the wheel is lit all the time.
I've read everything about how to solve the problem, but I can't manage it to work. This is what I've done:
1. connect the sansa to the computer. The computer only detects the player only when I connect the player WITHOUT the battery... but I'm not sure if that is 100% true...
2. installed the libusb filter driver
3. installed libusb device driver and created a .inf file with the information I got from the testlibusb-win.exe:
bus/device  idVendor/idProduct
bus-0/\\.\libusb0-0001--0x0b70-0x0003 Â Â 0B70/0003
- Manufacturer : PortalPlayer
- Product    : Tango Digital Media Platform
4. in device manager I updated the driver for my sansa with the just created .inf. The sansa is now listed in device manager as 'Tango Digital Media Platform'.
5 opened cmd.exe and entered "\e200tool init"
then I get:
Searching for device 0781:0720 ... 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 not found!
Searching for device 0b70:0003 ... 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 not found!
6. I also tried linux (kubuntu) but I have 0% linux knowledge so I can't figure out how to try e200tool on linux...
7. What do I do wrong? If you suggest me to try on kubuntu, please give a detailed how-to because I don't know how to load the e200tool program in kubuntu...
I really apreciate all the help!
greets,
Bram
fldash:
Woops, count me as one of the ones having a problem! I bricked mine somehow; I'm not even sure what model it is.
Taking out the battery revels its a c200, though I thought it was a 250. Who knows?
I'm running Vista, and a USB Mouse. I installed the libUSB program but when I do, it disable my USB mouse, and then I can't click refresh on the test application to get any information from it. It doesn't have any shortcut keys assigned in it and tab doesn't move to the buttons so I can refresh!
It's detected each time as Tango Digital Media Platform in Vista.
I've tried both recovery and manufacturer mode, but it's always detected the same way. e200tool never detects it either.
Any advice?
Bagder:
--- Quote from: fldash on March 17, 2007, 11:04:58 AM ---It's detected each time as Tango Digital Media Platform in Vista.
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That's a PPI name so I guess it is then in portal player pre-boot mode.
--- Quote ---I've tried both recovery and manufacturer mode, but it's always detected the same way. e200tool never detects it either.
Any advice?
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Run and use e200tool from Linux.
fldash:
I finally got it detected in Windows:
--- Quote ---bus/device idVendor/idProduct
bus-0/\\.\libusb0-0001--0x0781-0x0720 0781/0720
- Manufacturer : SanDisk
- Product : Tango Digital Media Platform
wTotalLength: 32
bNumInterfaces: 1
bConfigurationValue: 1
iConfiguration: 0
bmAttributes: e0h
MaxPower: 16
bInterfaceNumber: 0
bAlternateSetting: 0
bNumEndpoints: 2
bInterfaceClass: 255
bInterfaceSubClass: 255
bInterfaceProtocol: 255
iInterface: 0
bEndpointAddress: 81h
bmAttributes: 02h
wMaxPacketSize: 64
bInterval: 0
bRefresh: 0
bSynchAddress: 0
bEndpointAddress: 01h
bmAttributes: 02h
wMaxPacketSize: 64
bInterval: 0
bRefresh: 0
bSynchAddress: 0
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But it still isn't detecting detected by e200tool, so I guess my only choice is to try linux...
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