From: Dana Conrad via rockbox <rockbox_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:28:34 -0500

I think they're the same, but I don't know for sure - I'll take a look when I get home. One thing to be aware of is the scroll wheel will sometimes drop the first click when you start scrolling - that might not be ideal without voicing I imagine! The Previous/Next buttons appear to be used for menu navigation in the original firmware as well, those should be much more reliable navigation I think.

On my Surfans in front of me at least, a fresh boot into the original firmware starts at "Explorer", and the menu cycles through the following entries by pressing the Next button (down):

Explorer, Settings, System Settings, Category

Under System settings, if you press Previous (up), the list wraps around to the following entries (listed in order according to pressing the Previous button):

About the Player, Firmware Update, Reset

About the Player will be necessary just to check the original firmware version, and Reset can be used to reformat your SD card if desired.

Clicking Reset brings up two options, Format TF card and Factory Default, with Format TF card selected by default. If you click on Format TF card, it will confirm Yes or No, with No selected by default. The Previous/Next buttons can be used to select Yes here as well.

Firmware Update asks for confirmation Yes or No as well, with No selected by default.

I'll double-check when I get home to make sure the HifiWalker is the same layout as the Surfans, but I hope that all helps.

Dana

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025, at 3:10 PM, Stephen Clower wrote:
> Hi Dana,
>
>
> Wonderful, thank you! Do you know whether the menu layouts are in the
> same order for each player variant? e.g. x number of clicks up or down
> will take me to the version information, firmware upgrade screen, etc?
>
>
> Thanks for such a helpful response.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 4/28/2025 4:05 PM, Dana Conrad wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Maybe this explanation can be of some use:
>>
>> There's a scroll wheel in which there is a large center button, that's Play/Pause.
>> Below the scroll wheel and to the left is the Menu button.
>> Three buttons to the right-hand side of the scroll wheel are, from top to bottom, Previous Track, Next Track, and Back.
>> On the right-hand edge of the device are Volume Up and Volume Down.
>>
>> The Play/Pause button doubles as Select in the menus.
>> The scroll wheel is used for scrolling through the menus as you would expect, though Previous Track and Next Track can also be used for scrolling in the menus if desired.
>>
>> For some of the less-used functionality when we needed to define a "Left" and "Right" as well as "Up" and "Down", the scroll wheel does up and down while the Previous and Next buttons do left and right, or vice versa. It depended on what made sense for that specific functionality. (If that makes sense - Hah!)
>>
>> I hope that helps! Let us know if you have trouble with the installation and I'm sure we can get you going.
>>
>> Dana
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2025, at 1:57 PM, Stephen Clower via rockbox wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>>
>>> I picked up a Hifi Walker H2 the other day for purposes of installing
>>> Rockbox onto it. I'm blind and would be grateful if anyone can describe
>>> the layout of buttons on the front panel; Power is obvious, but not the
>>> rest. With some assistance from OCR apps on my phone, I'm hoping I can
>>> manage the
>>>
>>> firmware identification/installation process from there.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for continuing to keep this project going. I've been using
>>> Rockbox daily for almost 20 years now.
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
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