HOW-TO remove the Hebrew beta firmware

[DooKie]

go to hacks and mods then youll see firmware ....15A dumps or something like that and download it from there

[CrowdAds]

[sumx4182]

why did people install the Hebrew firmware to being with? Do we have THIS MANY Hebrew people here?

[DooKie]

it has noting to do with it being hebrew theres alot of improvements in it instant on, no lag in play list and rating... the only problem is that it doesnt work :P

[sumx4182]

eh....none of those matter to me...lol

[blaaah]

I can't find it.Could you post a link?

[blaaah]

Never mind. Found it.
Thx

[dawnerd]

Wow, thanks.

It worked great. Had trouble at first finding the rom file but after some nifty thinking and the use of 7zip (the files are in the auto update exe) I was back up and running. Down side is I have hours of syncing to do.

[ortal]

Originally Posted by la-v22

anyway i did the process without getting into recovery mode
ive just putted the two renamed files directly into the player and it works!
thanks everyone for the help! you dont know how happy i am to get rid of that beta firmware...

i did it but now my player is not workin the screen is open and refersh what to do plzzzzzzz help me

[Shyam]

I Think we have to use the boot loader

[anle.wsu]

wow u'r the best man

[tOy]

Originally Posted by Slaughter

Thanks to Zivan56 in the Rockbox sub-forum!

With the Hebrew beta, Sandisk has changed the name of the firmware and rom files for future use. So, you have to rename which ever old firmware you want to load to:
pribootLoader.rom and firmware.mi4 (case sensitive)

Then start your player in recovery mode and drop the 2 renamed files on to the 16MB partition that will come up in Recovery Mode.

Turn off the Hold switch and unplug the cable and you are back at your old firmware.

Now if Sandisk only knew this....

Where get this files?

[tOy]

Originally Posted by Slaughter

Thanks to Zivan56 in the Rockbox sub-forum!

With the Hebrew beta, Sandisk has changed the name of the firmware and rom files for future use. So, you have to rename which ever old firmware you want to load to:
pribootLoader.rom and firmware.mi4 (case sensitive)

Then start your player in recovery mode and drop the 2 renamed files on to the 16MB partition that will come up in Recovery Mode.

Turn off the Hold switch and unplug the cable and you are back at your old firmware.

Now if Sandisk only knew this....

Thanks!!!!!!!Thanks!!!!!!!Thanks!!!!!!!Thanks!!!!! !!Thanks!!!!!!!Thanks!!!!!!!Thanks!!!!!!!Thanks!!! !!!!Thanks!!!!!!!Thanks!!!!!!!Thanks!!!!!!!

[orbla]

You said that I need to rename the mi4 files and rom files, but first:

1.WHERE CAN I GET THOSE FILES ?!
2.RENAME THEM TO WHAT ?!

cause I downloaded that hebrew support update and after a month my
sansa is stuck like everybody else mentioned.
I logged into recovery mod but I didn't know what to do next -
WHICH files are you talking about and where can I get them ?

Please help it's urgent!

[testdasi]

Download the firmware here: http://zefie.com/files/sansa/e200/firmware/
Extract the downloaded file
Rename the .rom and .mi4 files to pribootLoader.rom and firmware.mi4 respectively. (It was mentioned right at the beginning of this thread).

[orbla]

So I downloaded these files, named the firmware.mi4 and pribootloader.rom
switched to recovery mode yet nothing seemed to happen, except the fact
that instead of just showing the sansa monster and jamming, it shows the animation, waits a few seconds than shows the animation again.

Have I done something wrong of not like I should ?

[orbla]

By the way, as I logged in my sansa again to recovery mode the files I dragged earlier seemed to be gone, could that be the reason why the process didn't work ?

[testdasi]

Which animation? The files should be gone. That's normal.
Download "these" files? You only download 1 file, depending on which version you want to downgrade to. I think 1.00.12A is the best (if you use the American version), the exact link is here http://zefie.com/files/sansa/e200/fi...200A1_00_12.7z
You didn't say you extracted the files. Did you?

[orbla]

Ok ... this is what iv'e done from the begining :

1.Switch to recovery mode
2.Logged the device into the computer.
3.Downloaded the file you told me, than extracted the mi4 and rom and renamed them to the names you told me, than dragged them into the E: drive.
At first I downloaded 1.02, but when you recommended the 1.00 I tried it aswell.

4.I resetted the device, and now the animation has changed to the 1.00 animation(which means that the firmaware probably changed), yet the animation appears, then fades, then starts over, and over and over.

What Should I Do ?!

[testdasi]

You have successfully removed the Hebrew firmware. Now repeat what you did (except renaming, cuz it's not the Hebrew firmware anymore) but also copy a blank sansa.fmt file to the recovery drive (just use notepad to create a blank text file named "sansa.fmt" (without quotes) but you have to make sure it's .fmt, not .txt <-- very common mistake if you use notepad to create the file)

[orbla]

I Just can't believe it !!!
It's like everything I'll do won't help !!
I did what you said about putting the original files BL_SD_boardSupportSD.rom
and PP5022.mi4 back in the 16mb drive, created a "sansa.fmt" file and dragged it aswell, then found out it formatted my device but whatever,
and yet nothing seems to happen !
It resets, shows me the sansa animation, then fades, then repeats.

It's driving me crazy !!!!!!!!

Thanks for the help so far, though ..