RockBox oddity

[pi3832]

I hadn't attached my Sansa Clip+ running RockBox to a Windows comnputer until this morning. It didn't go well. Not only did Windows not recognize the device, but the player itself froze.

Bother.

Turns out you can unfreeze it by holding down the on/off button for 20 seconds. That's the easy part. The problem with connecting to Windows, apparently, is that RockBock only supports MSC mode for USB connections, but annoyingly enough, you can't set that in the RockBox firmware. You have to reboot the device into the Sansa firmware to set the USB mode. (You boot into the OEM firmware by holding down the left navigation button while turning it on.)

I can't recall it had to set the Clip+ to MSC mode to install RockBox. Since I did it through Fedora, it may have auto-switched to MSC, and that's why I had to force it into MSC now. I read somewhere that installing RockBox wipes the OEM firmware settings, so even if I had set the thing to MSC in order to install RockBox, I still would have had to boot back into the OEM firmware and force MSC mode.

I don't recall that being in the installation instructions for RockBox. If it isn't, it should be.

1. Force MSC
2. Install RockBox
3. Boot into Sansa firmware
4. Force MSC
5. Boot into RockBox