Hello all... I was reading the following page at RockBox and wanted to
share some information about it:
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Unbricking
It's possible to brick an AMS Sansa by running faulty code.
e200v2's can be put in a recovery mode by shorting a couple of pins on
the PCB, see the SansaE200v2 page for details, or see http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showpost.php?p=281975&postcount=3
Other AMS Sansas can also get into this mode, but can not be unbricked
this way
>>> (they present an USB disk of size 0 that cannot be written).
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaAMS#Unbricking
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I have a Sansa Fuze (v2) which fell into water. I opened the case &
dried the circuit board. The battery is good (3.75v) but the flash
memory is corrupted and will not boot. When power-on the display is
100% black. When connected to a Mac, the Fuze presents as a USB disk
with name:
"4.2 MB UNDEF storage media"
MacOS says: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this
computer" (Initialize / Ignore / Eject)
The flash drive does not mount; it is not partitioned / formated.
The USB device name is now: M200 Plus (not "Sandisk Sansa Fuze")
Mac OS reports these USB parameters:
M200Plus:
Capacity: 4.2 MB (4,231,680 bytes)
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: Yes
BSD Name: disk3
Product ID: 0x6200
Vendor ID: 0x0781 (SanDisk Corporation)
Version: 4.02
Serial Number: i 0744703000
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: SanDisk
Location ID: 0x24741000
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 500
Partition Map Type: Unknown
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
DMESG says: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): i 0744703000 0x781
0x6200 0x402
Disk Utility says:
Disk Description : UNDEF storage Media
Total Capacity : 4.2 MB (4,231,680 Bytes)
Connection Bus : USB
Write Status : Read/Write
Connection Type : External
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
USB Serial Number : i 0744703000
Partition Map Scheme : Unformatted
I think the device is in PRE-BOOT mode.
Maybe there is a secret way to unbrick an AMS Sansa without JTAG by
shorting pins--and these pins shorted by accident in the water,
erasing the Flash chip. This caused the device to enter PRE-BOOT
mode… ?
Since the status is Read/Write, can I now use e200tool on the Fuze?
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I also have some questions about this:
"You should never, EVER EVER need an i2c.bin unless your player no
longer boots to anything except a pure black screen"
" http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/e200tool/i2c-e280.bin should be the same
for all the e200 series, as they all use the same I2C "
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22225
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So now I wonder:
Does the Fuze v2 use same I2C as the e200?
And where can I find an I2C dump for the Fuze v2?
I hope this information is useful to others and would appreciate any
comments/ideas/suggestions
