Sandisk Sansa c250

[John Summerfield]

Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:09:57 +0100
> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:57:32AM -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:01:33 +0100
>>> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:09:05PM -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>>>>> I just purchased a Sandisk Sansa c250.  The only problem is
>>>>> that it is real picky about id3 tags.  All of my mp3's were
>>>>> recently re-tagged using Easytag.  The c250 proceeds to lump
>>>>> them all as "Unknown Artist" and "Unknown Album."  I then
>>>>> figured out that if I remove all the tags, and just tag the
>>>>> album and the artist thusly: id3tag -2 --album="Dancing In
>>>>> Jerusalem" --artist="Lamb" *.mp3
>>>> Fix your Sansa c250: www.rockbox.org
>>>>
>>>> Rui
>>> Hello
>>> This looks like what I needed, so I followed the following
>>> instructions:
>>> http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-sansac200/rockbox-buildch2.html#x4-60002
>>>
>>> As root, installation went perfectly.
>> Cool! I envy you, I'm thinking to buy one of those too.
>>
>>> the Rockbox documentation.Unfortunately, the screen then went
>>> black.  I tried powering on the player again, and it appears to be
>>> deader than a doornail.  This seems like such a shame, because I
>>> believe that Rockbox SHOULD work as described, and that I just had
>>> a unique (bad) experience.  I hope I can at least get it powered up
>>> again and get Rockbox off the player, so I can return it to Staples
>>> and get my money back.  Of course, I'd prefer to get Rockbox
>>> working on this player...
>> That's sad, but do try to get in touch with the RockBox guys, I'm
>> sure they'll be of more help than I can give you :)
>>
>> Rui
> 
> Hello again :)
> I have achieved a level of joy with this issue.  My player is no longer
> toast :)  I followed these instructions:
>  Recovery mode of the Sansa e200
> 
> Recovery mode can be used to replace a bad .mi4 image on the player.
> 
> Accessing the recovery mode
> 
>     * Power off
>     * Turn ON lock/hold
>     * Hold down record
>     * Insert USB cable 
> 
> You will find a 16MB USB drive now, this is the recovery partition.
> 
> I was then able to mount the player and remove the .rockbox directory.
> I am going to play with this a LITTLE bit more.  Even though I'm pretty
> sure I didn't, I COULD have made a dumb mistake before...  I will
> report back with my findings.

I'm glad you've managed to scrape the charcoal off your toast;-)


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