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May or may not have made an MP3 player a brick

Postby Quirby64 » Thu Apr 21, 2016 4:04 am

Video bc laziness : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BOFyruGZp4
Ok so what happened is that I basically put a Sony NWZ-E370 Firmware image with Rockbox onto a NWZ-E344 without Rockbox. Makes sense, right?? :?
I already know I screwed up since right after the screen went white and I can only shut it off by powering the reset button. Would it classify as a brick? Or a soft-brick? Ech, jeebus I screwed up eh :|
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Re: May or may not have made an MP3 player a brick

Postby superfreaky » Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:26 am

Hmm might just be soft-bricked, but it's sounds like my tablet did when I hard-bricked it. :cry:
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Re: May or may not have made an MP3 player a brick

Postby jonnection » Thu Apr 21, 2016 12:41 pm

I may be wrong but it sounds as though you now have a brick.

AFAIK Sony players are tough to hack, there are no alternative ways of getting at the firmware. You need to have a device that is able to boot up as an USB device when connected to a PC. Sony players have no documented JTAG or similar to allow for serious hardware hacking.

If it is of any consolation, I bricked a CD-RW drive in this way when they were still expensive pieces of kit. Being young and inexperienced, I thought that since it was "almost" the same then perhaps it would work.

Well it didn't.

But again, this is what I found out in 15 min of searching about this topic.
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Re: May or may not have made an MP3 player a brick

Postby Quirby64 » Fri Apr 22, 2016 2:12 am

Glad I'm not the olny one who did something similar, eh.
atm I'm installing Windows Devcon, which to the small research I did should be able to apparently force-detect what is in a USB drive, according to this : http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/ ... A700602459
Hope for the best, right?
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Re: May or may not have made an MP3 player a brick

Postby superfreaky » Fri Apr 22, 2016 2:42 am

Quirby64 wrote:Glad I'm not the olny one who did something similar, eh.

With me, I tried to load CWM using a tool for all Samsung devices... Turns out, it only meant phones. Since my tablet didn't have a bit inside identifying it as a T-Mobile or AT&T, it just bricked it. :cry:
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