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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Iriver H10 20GBRe: Iriver H10 20GB
From: Christopher Chaltain <cchaltain_at_austin.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:04:36 -0500 Celeste Williams wrote: > Yes he said he did download the voice files. > > We have both read the instructions and they don't seem to be making the H10 > talk. We must be missing something. > > > > > Celeste, > I found the instructions I pointed you too earlier were pretty good, but I thought it might help if I gave you the exact steps I followed. Note that these are the steps I followed at this point in time. They may not work forever or with any other MP3 player. I'd also suggest worrying about just getting Rockbox installed and talking for now. The rest can come later. Furthermore, I'd suggest reading a lot and being patient! :-) IMHO, it's worth it! Before we start, clean everything up. Attach your iRiver as a UMS device, see below for instructions, and delete the .rockbox directory and replace the original H10_20GC.mi4 file in the system directory. Restart everything and make sure it comes up in the iRiver software and plays the samples that came with the player. Unfortunately, you'll need sighted help for this. First, go to the Rockbox H10 20GB user manual at http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-h10/rockbox-build.html, open it to the install section and refer to it as you look at my steps below. Next, download everything you'll need, which will include the Rockbox firmware, the Rockbox boot loader and the voice file. For the Rockbox firmware, I went to the archive of daily builds at http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml. Near the bottom you'll see a graphic labelled "h10". It'll be between iaudioM5 and h10_5gb. Use the "latest" link. Remember where you downloaded it to! For the Rockbox boot loader, I just used the link http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/iriver/H10˙20GC.mi4. This will download the file H10_20GC.mi4. To get the voice file, I went to http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VoiceFiles and downloaded the file english_Reed_fast_cvs.zip. I plan on playing with the other voice files later. Now you'll need to connect your iRiver up to your PC in UMS mode. Do this by resetting the iRiver. On the top of the iRiver, between the lock slider button and the data port slit, is a little hole that you can only access with a pin or maybe a real skinny paper clip. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but now I'm a pro. Push your pin in there and depress the tiny button you'll find. You can actually feel the button depress. You'll hear the hard drive spin down and the unit power off. Now, attach the data cable and plug it into your USB port on your PC. While holding the select key, press and hold down the power key. The power key is onl the left hand edge and the select key is under the display to the left of the slider bar. You'll hear the unit power up, the hard disk spin up and your PC will tell you a USB device has been connected. Note that I'm assuming you're using Windows XP. Go into My Computer, and you should see a new drive. Mine is labelled "H10 J:". Yours may be on the E drive. To extract the Rockbox firmware, I used Windows Explorer. I went to the zip file I downloaded from the daily archives of the Rockbox firmware, named rockbox-h10.zip, and in the File pulldown, I chose the "Extract all" option. In the wizzard that came up, I selected J:, since this was the drive of my H10. I then let the files be extracted. This took a few minutes. When it was done, I had a "\.rockbox" directory on the root of the J drive, my H10. Next on your H10 in the J drive, go to the system folder and rename the file H10_20GC.mi4 to OF.mi4. If you don't see the system folder, you'll have to change the view options in Windows Explorer to show hidden directories. Once you've renamed the boot loader, copy the Rockbox boot loader, again named H10_20GC.mi4, that you downloaded above over into the system directory on your H10, i.e. the J drive. Finally, copy the voice file over to the .rockbox\lang directory on your H10. I did this by opening up the file english_Reed_fast_cvs.zip in Windows Explorer, copying english.voice to the clipboard, navigating over to the .rockbox\lang directory on my H10 and pasting it into that directory. Now disconnect your iRiver from the PC and reset the device again using the pin hole reset as I described above. Again, you'll hear everything power down. Press the power button on the left hand side, and you'll come up in Rockbox! Tap the slider bar on the bottom once, it doesn't take much, and you should hear the menus being spoken to you. Once the menus are talking, you can play around and start copying music over to your MP3 player. Let me know if you have any problems or you get this far and need help with the next few steps! Christopher Received on 2007-03-28 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |