May or may not have made an MP3 player a brick
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
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
Re: May or may not have made an MP3 player a brick
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. 
Re: May or may not have made an MP3 player a brick
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.
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.
Re: May or may not have made an MP3 player a brick
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?
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?
Re: May or may not have made an MP3 player a brick
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.