On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 06:02:45AM -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > 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. Picking this thread back, I've just bought an European model Sansa e260 (4GB) as a gift for my gf. It's now rockboxed, and it worked fine at first try. Still is a bit quirky for a non geek, but the games surely did overcome :) Rui -- Hail Eris, Hack GNU/Linux! Today is Boomtime, the 20th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
