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[sleepawaycamp]

I just installed, and my player has said "writing" for the past 20 mins did I mess up?

[CrowdAds]

[Benjamin_L]

YES! Mine does the same, so I think yours is fine too.

[sleepawaycamp]

thanks, how long should this take?

[Shargrath]

Originally Posted by sleepawaycamp

thanks, how long should this take?

if the program your using says that it has finished extracting then its done mine does that to me sometimes too.

[sleepawaycamp]

so, in other words... just ignore what my sansa is saying and unplug?

[kugel]

No, you should use the safely remove feature of Windows when you use Windows. As every USB drive.

[sleepawaycamp]

yes, sorry what I meant to say was, evenhtough my sansa is saying it's writing and has been for almost and hour, I should ignore that and safely remove?

ps: Thanks in advance!

[Benjamin_L]

exactly that

[mdouet]

Originally Posted by kratonator

You're wrong on this one. Battery life should be somewhere near 10-12, not 15-20.

Actually, you're wrong, the battery life for the e280 is quoted to have up to 20 hrs of battery life, as per the Sandisk product page:

http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1166)-SanDisk_Sansa_e200_Series_MP3_Players.aspx

[pyr0sphere]

20 hours using the original firmware..

We're talking about Rockbox here

[kratonator]

Originally Posted by mdouet

Actually, you're wrong, the battery life for the e280 is quoted to have up to 20 hrs of battery life, as per the Sandisk product page:

http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1166)-SanDisk_Sansa_e200_Series_MP3_Players.aspx

Originally Posted by pyr0sphere

20 hours using the original firmware..

We're talking about Rockbox here

Correct.

[mdouet]

Oh ok, I was referring to the native device battery life, and pointing out that the firmware greatly degrades the battery life.

[kugel]

That's known. Read FAQs, stickies and older threads please.

[ricocarlos]

Okay, so I'm a lazyass and don't want to go back to find it...what is the expanation as to why the battery is used more in Rockbox?

[Benjamin_L]

maybe others are too lazy to answer then

[kratonator]

Or maybe I won't be lazy to warn/ban him for inadequate language...

[sleepawaycamp]

I am having extreme difficulty with getting rockbox to work on my sansa 280. After installing and I go to boot up I get a black screen with white text stating:
"Rockbox boot loader
Version: ( i can't get this number as the screen disappears too fast)
Partition 0: ( i can't get this number as the screen disappears too fast)
partition 1: ( i can't get this number as the screen disappears too fast)
loading rockbox....
cant load rockbox .mi4
file not found
cant load rock box e200
file not found

this has happened both time i have tried to install and had to go back and put original firmware back on during recovery. I am probaly making a very simple mistake but I will tell you how I installed rock box

Extracted files to player
installed boot loader
safely remove

just as said in the rockbox manual?

I would greatly appreciate the help thanks!

[Shargrath]

Originally Posted by kugel

No, you should use the safely remove feature of Windows when you use Windows. As every USB drive.

serious? whats the difference between using the safely remove feature and just unplugging it?

[cpchan]

Originally Posted by Shargrath

any chance of a release this morning? id be willing to try it out if you haven't finished testing it yet.

I had a release ready yesterday, but it was never released due to a show stopper bug in mpegplayer. It was fixed this morning with a new patch, unfortunately something changed in the mpegplayer code which broke the patch again- I am waiting for an update.

Charles

[cpchan]

Originally Posted by mdouet

I've gotten a few PANIC crashes since installing the patch, I thought the patch was supposed to stop these from occurring.

When do you get the panic.

I am still unable to play video though, so if anyone has any ideas how to get that to work I'm all ears.

Did you follow the instructions to encode your videos in mpeg1 or mpeg2?

Charles