Rockbox

Found the commit that broke the bootloader. Not sure how it could have but that is up to the devs to find out

Rev: 14654
Firmware “hacker” code for the e200r install so the full bootloader rom doesnt need to be written.
Requires a custom version of e200tool which isnt available yet.

* Causes the complete lockup of the sansa e200. Before it would just reboot.

Rev: 14424

 FS#7634 : Add support for high capacity microSD cards (SDHC). We now support SD specification Version 2.00 which covers cards up to 32GB in size.

* breaks the bootloader. It just reboots trying to load the OF.

This may be an obvious question, but I can’t recall anyone answering it - do the people who are having problems booting the OF have a microSD inserted in their player?

@linuxstb: I don’t have a microSD and just got the problem with the sansapatcher v0.3.

So it’s the SDHC support that’s breaking the bootloader loading the OF. I’m not having this problem on my own Sansa (in fact, the bootloader freezes with a microSDHC inserted without the new code) so it’s hard for me to test.

Can someone please try commenting out the SDHC detection on lines 596-598 and see if that improves things?

Although I am watching and reporter of this bug no e-mail has reached me So please ping me if you need me to test a patch.

To answer linuxstb: No, standard 2gig microsd

barrywardell: It just reboots instead of locking

Here’s a bootloader for e200 that has absolutely no hotswap support at all. See if this does something good.

To install:
sansapatcher -a PP5022.mi4

EDIT: here the diff for it as well just to have the changes logged.

   PP5022.mi4 (58 KiB)
   e200-bl-no-hotswap.diff (6.2 KiB)

I used the diff and can confirm it boots the OF again.

After recovering with original fw PP5022.mi4 via recovery mode
and sansapatcher -a PP5022.mi4 (with the attached 58K PP5022.mi4) everything works.
Now I wish to have a reverse bootloader.

Stanislav,

1) You may file a feature request for this or customize the rockbox one and submit a patch. It’s just a keypress treatment issue.
2) A reverse bootloader wouldn’t have helped here if that’s what you’re implying.

@barrywardell: I checked out the most recent code and commented out the section labeled “Check for SDHC” and built a bootloader. The resulting pp5022.mi4 works fine.
BTW: I’m testing on an affected e200R unit, not e200. Not sure if they both suffer from the same problem or different problems with the same symptoms.

OK, so it sounds like somehow the Sansa isn’t ignoring CMD8 (the check for SDHC) like it should, and that’s what’s causing the problems for some people.

The problem is that before adding the SDHC stuff, on my own Sansa the Rockbox bootloader would freeze whenever there was a SDHC card inserted, so I don’t think removing the troublesome line is a good solution.

MikeS’ solution sounds like the best way to do things provided we still don’t get a freeze in the bootloader when a SDHC is inserted any more. I should be able to test that myself this evening if nobody else gets there first.

No ata thread either

   e200-bl-no-hotswap-no-thread.... (7.7 KiB)

I committed the first patch (I hope that _was_ the right one :P). I guess this doesn’t close until sansapatcher is fixed and maybe that nop weirdness.

So, is booting the OF working OK now after that commit? If so then I’ll release a new sansapatcher with the updated bootloader.

I tested today on my brother’s e200R that has been experiencing this issue. The bootloader from trunk (with MikeS’s commit) works great. Looks to me like the problem is solved.