{"id":4888,"date":"2009-11-11T07:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2009-11-11T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:31:58","slug":"wrong-in-every-possible-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/wrong-in-every-possible-good-way\/","title":{"rendered":"wrong in every possible (good) way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4889\" title=\"deathchase on rockbox on sansa\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/deathchase-on-rockbox-on-sansa.jpg\" alt=\"deathchase on rockbox on sansa\" width=\"331\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/deathchase-on-rockbox-on-sansa.jpg 331w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/deathchase-on-rockbox-on-sansa-155x300.jpg 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/>I found my bricked Sandisk Sansa E250 in a pile in the basement. I thought I&#8217;d give it one last try to get it going. After much faffing about, I found that applying this fix &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anythingbutipod.com\/forum\/showthread.php?p=280188\">Corrupted version.txt\/Fw update not working in recovery mode? The solution !!! &#8211; Sansa e200 FAQ &#8211; abi&gt;&gt;forums<\/a> (which resulted in a failed boot saying something about an mi4 not being found) followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/fixmysansa.blogspot.com\/\">Recovering a bricked Sansa<\/a> had it working with the fairly awful Sandisk firmware. So it was off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/\">Rockbox<\/a> for the latest version.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say, Rockbox 3.4 is pretty neat. They&#8217;ve now got proper USB reading\/writing\/charging, so that you never have to see the clunky Sandisk UI again. When plugged in, the player acts as a USB keyboard for controlling your music. Apparently the E250 can now support MicroSDHC cards, which it couldn&#8217;t before. But best (and least useful) of all, is that you can play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/3D_Deathchase\">3D Deathchase<\/a> and other ZX Spectrum games on it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found my bricked Sandisk Sansa E250 in a pile in the basement. I thought I&#8217;d give it one last try to get it going. After much faffing about, I found that applying this fix &#8211; Corrupted version.txt\/Fw update not working in recovery mode? The solution !!! &#8211; Sansa e200 FAQ &#8211; abi&gt;&gt;forums (which resulted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1387,1482,93],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-rockbox","tag-sansa","tag-zx_spectrum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1gQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}