Rockbox experiences
Saturday, 9. August 2008, 23:31:08
I've tried two devices, the Cowon X5 and the Sansa E250r.
The X5 was simply a matter of running rbutilqt then connect the AC power to upgrade the firmware.
Sansa has been a total nightmare. I should have given up soon as the Rockbox Utility bombed.
I had to manually unlock the firmware with e200rpatcher
I had to juggle the old and new firmware and manually install .rockbox
At this point rockbox works well and looks good but refuses to index the 4GB microSDHC we installed into the unit. It seems to play the files fine though.
btw - no file manager to rm the bad firmware is annoying
The one issue now is that when I connect a USB cable and it attempts to boot the old firmware it crashes and get stuck in a reboot cycle. Of coarse the original rubbish sansa firmware wont read the 4GB microSDHC which is why I installed rockbox in the first place.
Now I'm stuck with a device that will not index the 4GB card or write to the 4GB card. A total waste of time.
If I boot the device with the select key held and the lock on it boots to a 3rd mode where I cannot read the device in MASS storage or MTP. I actually wasted a lot of time trying to get MTP to work in this third mode with someone's ubuntu 8.04 box.
My advice? Just use a modern phone and forget portable media players all together.
S60 supports flac/ogg playback.
The X5 was simply a matter of running rbutilqt then connect the AC power to upgrade the firmware.
Sansa has been a total nightmare. I should have given up soon as the Rockbox Utility bombed.
I had to manually unlock the firmware with e200rpatcher
I had to juggle the old and new firmware and manually install .rockbox
At this point rockbox works well and looks good but refuses to index the 4GB microSDHC we installed into the unit. It seems to play the files fine though.
btw - no file manager to rm the bad firmware is annoying
The one issue now is that when I connect a USB cable and it attempts to boot the old firmware it crashes and get stuck in a reboot cycle. Of coarse the original rubbish sansa firmware wont read the 4GB microSDHC which is why I installed rockbox in the first place.
Now I'm stuck with a device that will not index the 4GB card or write to the 4GB card. A total waste of time.
If I boot the device with the select key held and the lock on it boots to a 3rd mode where I cannot read the device in MASS storage or MTP. I actually wasted a lot of time trying to get MTP to work in this third mode with someone's ubuntu 8.04 box.
My advice? Just use a modern phone and forget portable media players all together.
S60 supports flac/ogg playback.
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