princessanne1026
i had the same problem with the bad block after trying a totally random firmware!!!
The player could see the menus but went white screen when going into browser mode, i tried blindly navigating to the upgrade screen but every time i did this the computer recognized the player as normal so could not get it to upgrade mode.
But i did manage to recover the player again, this is what i did:
1. connect the player as normal to comp and let windows recognize as removable drive.
2. went to the tool bar and selected to 'safely remove disk drive' from the pop up list and let it disappear from windows. but left the player connected.
3 the i did hardware reboot by shorting the pins, took a few attempts but eventually windows saw it as rock usb device.
4 the i loaded the NAND tool available in the downloads section and (not knowing exactly what i was doing) selected to 'erase flash' and the to 'test block'.
5 when done, closed NAND tools and opened consumer update and selected known working firmware.
And it worked!!!
the player re-booted and all was back to normal, so i went in and tested the memory and it asked to format - success, formated the drive and all was ok
this is my experience, what have you got to lose, give it a go and see what happens
makd
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