Sansa E260: Ummm...no.

[GDog]

I installed Rockbox on my Sansa e260, following instructions found on this website step by step. My player would only function for about 1 minute before crashing. The LCD would either fade to white, the screen would be filled with gibberish, or the unit would just freeze.

In the two minutes I was able to listen to mp3's (that plays w/o incident with the shipped firmware), there was a 12-20 second delay when adjusting volume or switching tracks, followed by another total lockup.

Loading themes also caused the player to freeze up.

So, that's been my experience with Rockbox. I just want something that works when I turn it on, not something I have to fight with.

[saratoga]

I believe the fade to white bug was supposed to have been fixed a while ago.  Can you report what bootloader and Rockbox build you're running?

[GDog]

Links I followed were from...
http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-sansae200/rockbox-build.html

The files were...
http://build.rockbox.org/dist/build-sansae200/rockbox.zip
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/e200/win32/sansapatcher.exe

[saratoga]

Links I followed were from...
http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-sansae200/rockbox-build.html

The files were...
http://build.rockbox.org/dist/build-sansae200/rockbox.zip
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/e200/win32/sansapatcher.exe

Those files are updated constantly, so builds are dated.  What was the date for your build?

[GDog]

For the installer, I see nothing that indicates a date. Just V 0.2 and r12896

Build, looks like 4/2/07 9:50 pm as far as I can tell.

[saratoga]

I'll check in IRC in the morning to see if its known that the previous fix isn't working completely.  I suspect it is, since the LCD driver is supposed to be buggy, but I'll make sure.  

Anyway, you should probably check back in a few months once half the hardware on the Sansa is actually working.  Right now its all hacked together and most of it doesn't work quite right.

[bodymind]

it's a know bug.. :S

 http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/6901

[e260_user]

i think we all (e260 users) gotta struggle still a stable version of rockbox comes out for e200

[JdGordon]

once the build system is back up grab the latest version, a change was just commited which fixed the stalling problem during buffering... fade to black/white/brown/orange still happens occasionally... but not often

[ruster]

so we have to change the bootloader (sansapatcher) along with the daily build? Where can i get the sansa patcher, ive looked through most of the wiki and done a search and i cannot find it.

[JdGordon]

did you eveen read the thread? its linked about 4 posts up