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Installation / Removal => Manual Installation => Sandisk - Installation/Removal => Topic started by: badfish on June 14, 2007, 12:34:06 AM

Title: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: badfish on June 14, 2007, 12:34:06 AM
Hi, I just go a new Sansa e280 and wanted to install Rockbox on it but I'm having a small problem I didn't see adressed anywhere (I've been reading for over 4h and still no solution so I'm asking here. I followed all the instructions from the manual until the part where I have to run sansapatcher.exe.

What I do : I run sansapatcher.exe, type "i" and hit enter.
What happens : the program seems to start but after a few seconds, my sansa says it is disconnected (while the battery charging icon is still on and I haven't touched the plug). At that point, nothing else happens except the fact that I can't close sansapatcher.exe even in the task manager, explorer.exe frezes if I try to open "My Computer" and the computer does not detect my Sansa if I disconnect and reconnect it (unless I reboot the computer).

Note : sansapatcher.exe detects my e280 and it is in MSC mode.

Thanks for the help!
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: Llorean on June 14, 2007, 12:38:45 AM
Which version of windows are you running?
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: badfish on June 14, 2007, 05:41:16 PM
XP sp1
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: saratoga on June 14, 2007, 08:29:10 PM
If using sansa patcher crashes explorer, you have a driver or hardware problem.  You'll need to get that sorted out before you can install rockbox.
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: badfish on June 14, 2007, 08:41:28 PM
Ok I'll check that out, thanks.
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: badfish on June 14, 2007, 10:34:17 PM
Yup it was because of Windows. I tried it on 5 computers before finding one that worked. Everything works now, I love Rockbox! :D
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: mschneider on June 17, 2007, 11:28:50 AM
I have a question about sansapatcher:
I'm trying to work with an external bootloader. Whenenver i type "sansapatcher --help" into sansapatcher the program just closes down.
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: Llorean on June 17, 2007, 11:32:29 AM
Are you *running* the program from a DOS prompt with sansapatcher --help, or are you typing that when it asks you for i/u/c ?
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: mschneider on June 17, 2007, 05:56:39 PM
Well i've tried both, the prompt just closes down everytime i type sansapatcher --help.
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: Llorean on June 17, 2007, 06:00:13 PM
So you're at a black terminal showing C:\> or whatever, and run it, and the terminal crashes?

You're not doing it from "Start->Run" and typing it in there, right?
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: mschneider on June 17, 2007, 06:21:46 PM
yup
Title: Re: Sansapatcher.exe does not work, what did I do wrong?
Post by: Llorean on June 17, 2007, 06:48:14 PM
Yup to which part, there were two questions. It'd really help, A LOT, if you'd tell us exactly what you're doing.