[TowerCardReader]

I have updated from 1.3.3 to 1.5.0 and now my device is bricked. Wont turn on wont show up on my computer at all. The companion software now does also nothing, shows nothing, I can't even exit from the software because the exit, minimize and maximize options wont load leaving me to end the task in the task bar.

Yet I do not care anymore about this device, I NEED my money returned, or I will sell the paper weight to someone that is willing to resurrect it. This is my opinion, the Hifi walker is such an under-powered device in comparison and is half the price, yet when I run RockBox on it I can load music infinitely faster than the Tangara, I do not understand why an already made software like RockBox is just not good enough and all this flashing and extra companion software is for some reason better. I really wish this was a device that just ran RockBox. I apologize for my anger yet I spent $250, waited months for delivery withour any information and the software needs monthly updates that can cause a complete bricking of the device ugh! I just can't do this anymore. 

Again, I need my money back or I will sell this thing to anyone.

Sorry to hear about your frustrations. I understand that you don't want to spend the effort to reflash the device, but just so I can keep an eye out for this kind of bug, did you use the most recent companion version to flash? There's an issue currently where older versions of companion don't flash correctly resulting in the device being unresponsive until it's flashed manually. Unfortunately, we're still working on getting the new release built for Mac OS, so I don't fault anyone for using the older version, but it would be good to confirm that it's the same issue.

As for why we didn't go with Rockbox for our firmware, there's a few reasons. Rockbox is quite a large project targeting many different devices, and Tangara is designed to be easy to hack on and add features to. We wanted to provide a custom built firmware for the device as a starting point for people to improve and make their own. Maybe in some time Tangara's firmware will be more similar to Rockbox in terms of features, but there's already many devices that run Rockbox, so if people just want to run Rockbox there's other options. Tangara is a bit of a niche device, and the way we've done things isn't necessarily "better". If you're happy with an off the shelf device that runs Rockbox, then more power to you. I don't think either approach is better or worse, just different priorities. 

There's some people who are really keen to buy a Tangara who missed the initial crowdfund, so if you want to sell yours, I can point them in your direction. For a return you'd need to talk to CrowdSupply but they're unlikely to accept returns at this stage.

Thank you, anyone that wants this can buy it's yours, I can easily negotiate a resonable price considering shipping. Rerflashing this "bit of a niche device" is on the buyer, if that lowers the price so be it.