Not sure what happened, half-bricked :o

[Banacon]

I have had my iRiver H320 for around 3 years. Had RockBox for 2 years and have had no problems with it until now. Just a few days ago I started up my iRiver and for some reason the only buttons that responded were On-Play-Pause and A-B. All the others ones resulted in nothing when pressed. I had to use the reset button on side to turn it off. Now today it won't even start up! I can plug it into my USB or Charger and it starts up in the proper mode (Charger/USB Mode) and I can then unplug it and it is in the normal playing, but still the only buttons that respond are On and A-B.

Also when I plug it into my computer it says it is in USB Bootloader mode or whatever but it does not show up on my computer. So I can't take RockBox off or anything to try and fix.

Please help, I don't want this thing to be dead forever

[Genre9mp3]

Unfortunately, it sounds to me like a hardware problem... The buttons have probably died or something. I would try to open the player and see if something got loose or out of position. Other than that I can't think of any other suggestions.

[Banacon]

I just tried turning it on and it went to the blue bootloader screen and about 3 things scrolled by quickly then it shuts off, this happened 3 times when I tried. After that the button become unresponsive again.

I'll probably wait until this weekend before I try opening it.

[Spug]

See if the last thing it says before shutting down is "Result: -5". I got that with the SVN build earlier today as well, on my H320. That error means that the checksum for the "rockbox.iriver" file is incorrect, as far as I can tell, so perhaps the H300 SVN build was broken. Try redownloading the SVN build (it seems to be okay now), or maybe a daily build.

[XavierGr]

Have you tried booting to the Original Firmware?
At least that way you will be sure if it is a hardware of software problem.

The USB bootlader problem that you refer to is normal for specific players (e.g I can't make MY H300 to be recognized in bootloader USB mode)

[Banacon]

I didn't really touch it (besides trying to turn it on and plugging it in to USB a few times). And it started working again. I don't know what happened but it is fine now