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Installation / Removal => Manual Installation => Sandisk - Installation/Removal => Topic started by: adrian87 on July 05, 2007, 09:49:32 PM

Title: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: adrian87 on July 05, 2007, 09:49:32 PM
it wont let me extract rockbox on my sansa  when i go to find the the sansa to extract the files in its not there
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: LambdaCalculus on July 05, 2007, 11:36:36 PM
Have you read the manual?

This page: http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-sansae200/rockbox-buildch2.html#x4-60002
says that you have to set your Sansa to "USB Mass Storage/MSC Mode" in the original firmware first.
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: adrian87 on July 06, 2007, 05:43:02 PM
yes
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: adrian87 on July 06, 2007, 07:13:21 PM
i dont really know how to do taht thou
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: LambdaCalculus on July 06, 2007, 07:19:01 PM
Refer to the manual for your Sansa for instructions on how to set USB Mass Storage mode.
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: adrian87 on July 06, 2007, 07:22:56 PM
ok ty
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: adrian87 on July 06, 2007, 07:34:24 PM
hey would you know where i have to extract it to
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: LambdaCalculus on July 06, 2007, 08:36:20 PM
I already gave you the link to the manual. Please read it. The .rockbox folder needs to go into the root folder of the Sansa.

If you are using Windows, look at the drive letter the Sansa gets assigned to. If it's, for example, G:, then just extract it into G:. You should end up with something like this:

G:\.rockbox
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: adrian87 on July 06, 2007, 09:27:07 PM
now the sansa patcher wont work
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: LambdaCalculus on July 08, 2007, 09:18:13 AM
By any chance, is your Sansa a Rhapsody model? You know, with an R at the end of the model name?
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: adrian87 on July 08, 2007, 10:45:32 PM
YA it is
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: GodEater on July 09, 2007, 08:03:02 AM
That will be why it's not working then - as clearly stated on the front page of Rockbox.org - we don't support the R series.
Title: Re: help i need help getting rockbox on my sansa
Post by: LambdaCalculus on July 09, 2007, 09:59:45 AM
Your best bet now is to either:

A) Purchase a supported DAP; like GodEater said, there's a list of supported players on the front page.

B) Return your Sansa to wherever you purchased it from, and ask them to give you a non-Rhapsody model. Make sure to emphasize that to them... NON-RHAPSODY! (If it's Best Buy, ask for your money back and go to a store that sells non-Rhapsody models.)