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Subject: Re: sandisk sansa clip zip and clip fuze plus

Re: sandisk sansa clip zip and clip fuze plus

From: Hayden Pearce <saint.lascivious_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:50:24 +1200

As a side note, there are no claims being made on www.rockbox.org regarding
functionality or stability.

The statements there are factual.

I read "claim" being used as though the project's intention is to
deliberately deceive users about functionality, which definitely isn't the
case.

[Saint]
On Jun 12, 2012 4:36 PM, "Jesse Watson" <9mm.tylenol_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> >there is a claim on the site that porting to the fuze plus is pretty good
> apart from recording not being available.
> >can people confirm whether anyone is using a fuze + as yet and how well
> that seems to work.
> >how are people finding the touch controls?
> >do we know if the battery life for these using rockbox is up to par with
> the standard firmware battery life?
>
> Hi Mathew, so far the fuze plus port is pretty well stable, charging
> works just not the usb-boot charging (you need to be in the GUI for it
> to charge). I have two fuze plus player and one is running stock and
> the other is RB and I rather prefer the rb one for how quick it is.
> Other things to note are that the skin support isn't as provident as
> the other players but there might be one or two that might catch your
> eye, second the touch controls are kind of finicky and at this point
> gestures are not implemented yet so you will be doing a lot of tapping
> on the touch pad. Aside from that and the recording function and maybe
> some FM connectivity/calibration you should still be happy with the
> result. One more thing is that when observing the battery discharge,
> it's loss is just about the same rate as the original firmware. Please
> take in mind that this is an unstable port and crashing/rebooting will
> be an issue, though none of my data has taken a hit. I hope I have
> been of some assistance.
>
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