Sandisk Sansa e200v1 Models

I first had an e260, then an e280R because my first went through the washer by accident and wasn’t as good, so I wanted an upgrade. I didn’t want a Rhapsody model but it was the only one in stores I could find at the time. I got it vanilla e280 via Unlocking and Rock Box stuff.

I hadn’t been using my e280 much, but have had it around on my desk always. The last couple of weeks I’ve been using it a lot more, I don’t enjoy listening to music on my phone so much because of interruptions and just basically I think some music sounds better via my player.

I guess I’m also trying to limit my online use with music, just play and scrobble it later. On my phone I have to do that anyway, otherwise many scrobbles are lost (if submitting after each song IRL.)

I have Google Play Music All Access, it’s pretty much a great thing, but I still want to own many albums that come out, I just can’t buy everything, but to use it to vet what I do want to buy now.

Sometimes I do listen from my Google Music online, but there is no single scrobbler that is working best, except QT Scrobbler that I use with my Rockbox scrobble.log or the use of Rock Scrobbler, which is nearly the same as QT (built from it) but sits in your task bar area waiting for a connected player, then auto scrobbles.

I have a project that is ongoing with e200’s. I have and will continue to look for cheap parts/non-working models, to get working and fixed up.

If I have enough good product I’ll eventually sell them on eBay, maybe. So far I had a broken e250, that’s a tiny 2gb model. It worked, but the case was totally smashed on the left side.

I had an e270 that was really weird, and didn’t want to keep it running if I could make the little guy above better with some of it’s parts. The e270 had the red interface LCD problem. With Rockbox installed I could invert the LCD and have black and white, but I wanted the perfectly fine LCD player to work great.

I took the e270 apart and put the front on the e250 model. Oh, and that e250 is, or was, an R model too.

I struggled between Windows and Linux getting it’s firmware Unlocked. Finally got it to work all the way and installed Rock Box.

Later on I decided I’d rather much have more memory in the thing, and this morning went looking online for parts and found one place that said SOME models of the e200 have snap on memory chips.

So to my e270 remains I went, indeed, it 6gb chip was removable.

I then opened up the e250R and it was also a removable chip, took it off, put the 6gb chip in its place. Put the entire player back together, turned on the power, it booted into Rock Box immediately, exactly the same as I had left the e270, yes, this methodology immediately changes a player to whatever the chip had on it.

Booting into Sansa OF it is the miserable non-anti-aliased fonts, but the Rhapsody isn’t there, yes, it’s entirely a vanilla e270 on the body of an e250R.

I plan on making a pictures post of some of this. Basically I can show the before pictures from eBay, that is where I got this set of broken players. I can show the after as well, and some of the parts.

My main attention in this affair is the e270 though, it’s plainly weird and that will come out as to how weird it is in that future post.

Wrapping it up, I love the e200 series, have since I first had one. I was sad when they weren’t on sale anymore. It’s great to see so many of them on the secondary marketplace. They are so fixable and I love making them work again, better than before, and Rock Box’d.