On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:09:57 +0100 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@xxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxx> 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. Steven P. Ulrick
