Rockbox

this patch adds inline settings to the
any menu items are settings it will show a 2nd line for that menu which will show the value of the elected setting, or —→ for submenus/functions.

notes about this
uses too many hacky-tweaks to be considered
doesnt let you disable
item voiceing is probably
doesnt let you change the setting, you still have to enter the setting screen to change it

DONT send this topic off on a tangent like the last UI change tasks, and any requests for resyncs will be deleted. (I’m guessing this will stay here till at least devcon)

adds ability to use “Caps Shift” (displayed as ‘C’ in vkeyboard) and “Symbol Shift” ( ‘H’ ) so Jumping Jack can be played
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=16817.0

Add an tag to the viewports that allow text/items to be aligned
top/centre/bottom (vertical alignment)

Currently, it is possible to align left/centre/right (horizontal alignment)

The main reason I want to do this is to centre fonts in the middle of a viewport to allow my WPS to allow for multiple fonts - all lined up correctly. I’m sure there can be many other uses

This patch adds an option to disable the speed limiting that slows down seeking as you approach the end or beginning of a track.

It defaults to limiting enabled, to maintain compatibility. Personally, I prefer the fast seeking without the limiting.

The manual is not included, I can't compile them still…

Unsure if this is an RBUtil isssue or a sansapatcher issue, or even a Sansa issue that can’t be solved, but according to this (http://www.rockbox.org/irc/log-20080709#02:36:38), it reports a successful install on the e200R when it hasn’t. Related to  FS#7526 ?

The patch allows to set the delay after which the button repeat event is generated. Since this event is used to detect a long button press, it effectively sets this 'threshold.'

Slow fingered users may often hold the select button too long and (unintentionally) get the context menu. For instance, from the WPS screen. But they actually wanted to go to the file browser.

The patch adds a setting for that delay. Its default value is 30 ticks (=0.3s). The menu entry is in Settings → General Settings → System → Long Button Press Duration.

This patch modifies bins.pl, manuals.pl and voices.pl to be smarter, just like the new w32sims.pl, adding a -r commandline switch, allowing the same script to be used for building both daily and release versions.

This patch adds a new plugin called aegdice, which allows for AEG style (i.e. 5k3) dice rolling.

Building Rockbox fails if assert() (in firmware/include/assert.h) is used.

Then, I reworked assert.h.

changes:
When assert() failed, the correction that displayed the file name, the number of lines, and the condition of failing was done.
Moreover, when the log was enabled, the log was output to the file.

Please select the following to make assert() enabled when you make Rockbox.

1) Run tools/configure

2) Build (N)ormal, (A)dvanced, (S)imulator, (B)ootloader, …

    Select "A"

3) (D)EBUG, (L)ogf, (A)ssert, (S)imulator, (P)rofile, (V)oice

   Select "A"

4) make

This patch is a continuation of FS#9879 and includes it (but adds something more). It adds the possibility to switch the lamp on and off without leaving the plugin.

Key mappings were taken from FS#8934.

I’ve been reliably informed that Rockbox should stop scrolling when it gets to the bottom or top of a menu, only to wrap around when you initiate a new scrolling gesture. On a 2nd Generation iPod, however, it just keeps scrolling.

See http://bertram.bourdrez.org/buggyrockbox.avi (the video is recorded with an old Rockbox, but 3.2-090323 does the same thing)

Also, the bug tracking system is overcomplicated. I have to register an account?!
“Why the hell should *I* set up an account? It’s not like any bugs will be assigned to me or anything. Just store my e-mail address and move on. It’s completely fucking bogus that I should have to go digging through my mail for confirmation passwords.” (http://zork.net/~sneakums/fortunes/gar/215)

Then I have to click a link with a magic number in it *as well as* having to enter a confirmation code from the same email (!?) and then when I’ve finished, I’m not even logged in! I have to log in with the same password I just set! Can’t it just set a cookie?

Currently running r19940 but there doesn’t seem to have been any chage in the power code for the gigabeat S recently.

The issue is that there is a regular clicking noise heard if DC power is connected while the battery is fully charged. This noise is not heard while the battery is charging. The same power adapter doesn’t cause the same noise on an F.

firmware/export/usb_ch9.h comes from linux (include/linux/usb/ch9.h) with only trivial changes. The original doesn’t mention a specific license, so it probably is GPLv2
file basically contains only structure declarations and defines for things straight from the USB specification though, so I’m not sure if there is a real problem.

Since FM stations list may require that the FM region is set to a certain value, it would be good if the FM region could be set along with the station list. The patch does just that.

The region is set by putting the line “region:N” into the FMR file (at any line there). N can be one of the values allowed for the fm_region setting.

The patch does not work on the simulators for e200 and h120 (the only two I tried) because, for some reason, the symbol HAVE_RADIO_REGION is not defined for them. Could anybody tell why?

Saving the region along with the station list is not implemented.

This patch implements a menu function to the playlist viewer's contextual menu that moves the selected track after the current playing track. It is especially useful as a simple queuing method.

I have tried to properly handle the situation in which the current playing track is the last in the playlist, but since I don't know exactly how (when) the playlist indexes are updated I wasn't able to do much in that respect, any help is very welcomed.

Since this patch adds the LANG_MOVE_AFTER_CURRENT string, I have also attached a diff with updates to the English and the Romanian translation file.

This isn't a big problem because the MR-100 won't turn on if the hold switch is already engaged.

But if the user turns on the MR-100 and then engages the hold switch while the M:Robe logo is on the screen, a "Hold switch is on Shutting down…" message is displayed, but it does not shut down.

A reset is required at this point - disengaging the hold switch and holding down the power button in this state does not shut down the MR-100.

The uisimulator cannot be build by using the source of the latest version on MinGW.

I send this bug’s patch.

It is necessary to apply the patch of FS#10021 to build the firmware on MinGW.

As of r21894, the pitch changing mode (in the pitch screen) can only be toggled (cycled through) in one direction. However it would be handy to be able to cycle in the other direction to change procentual vs. semitone while still staying in the time stretch mode. This patch adds such a possibility.

The key mappings is only defined for H1xx and H3xx (as a long press of Mode). Please add keys for other platfroms.

I noticed, that every time I’m in the car listening to music, and I disconnect the iPod 30G (5th gen), while its playing, and I then try to shut it down, it’ll jump to the main window and will not move away from it.

From this point on, I cannot turn off the device nor more away from the main window. Only a HR will resolve this and let the iPod come back to normal working order.

Further more, while it is in that situation (which it is right now, while I write this), the device won’t even go on sleep or turn off the monitor. So basically, it’ll stay with the screen wide awake and lit up.

The two only buttons that will work are the Hold button, which will in turn, turn off the screen and the scroll will allow me to scroll up and down and around on the main window.

Q: What sort of car connection do you use? Line-out+power, or MSC? Or the accessory
I’m not familiar with these connection and their types. All I know is that it is connected to the car stereo from back (ie. the stereo was pull out and the adapter was connected in the back). Also, that it is a connection that connects to the bottom of the iPod (ie. flat and wide connection). It gives me control from the car’s stereo and the steering wheel. When I bought it and then they hooked it up, they told me this is an iPod adapter.

This DOES NOT happen if first stop the music and go to another menu BEFORE I disconnect it from the adapter.

during my research on FS#10883 i found out that it would be better do disable slide actions on ipods for yes no decisons. slides are too easy done and often cause an unwanted abort.

this patch solves this issue by only accepting pressed keys for abort actions. the solution for FS#10883 has been appended on the bug report seperately.

Can't load Rockbox from my SDHC 32 GB A-Data Turbo Class 6.
Get “ATA mount File not found”. Cowon FW loads well.

There is bug in rockblox: when you manage to push block exactly to the top of the field, game neither finishes with error, neither continues normally. this block starts growing when you destroy lines in the bottom.

I've made small video and put in into youtube (sorry for bad quality and sharpness :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gULp6yUms8

look into the left top and see what happens when lines are removed. bug is quite easy to reproduce. right side works like the left.

charging isn’t monitored on ipod 3G. it just goes up to 100% very quickly and stays there.

H120 not starting original IRiver Firmware with LCD Remote holding Rec + Play Button both on LCD-Remote.

This patch implement alternative hold mode, mentioned in FS#10698.
To enter this mode you must:
1) switch hold button to on position(this results in normal hold mode).
2) press menu button.
3) switch hold button to off position
4) release menu button
To leave alternative model:
1) switch hold button to off position
2) press menu button
3)switch hold button to on position
4)release menu button(now you in normal hold mode)

Additionally I implement simple keymap which working only in wps contex:
if hold button off:

 Plus button increase volume

On Gogear sa9200, when hold is switched to off(means in the middle), the play stops.
Maybe because the hold and the on/off share the same swtich.

ONDA VX777
While in FM-Radio it isn’t possible to change the volume value, nor from the context menu, nor from the virtual 3×3 touch screen grid and nor from the .fms %T tag in absolute mode.

So, when you compile and run the bootloader on VX767/VX757 or any other buttons-only model, it can only boot to the Rockbox or the OF. It cannot use USB mode or reset RB configuration.

Here is a patch.

On page 51, which is in Section 6.8, there is a table for keys/actions. The Key column is completely empty, though.

On page 77, in Section 11.1.1, the blackjack game plugin, there table is similarly broken. Same for BrickMania in Section 11.1.2. Chessbox, in section 11.1.4 has a similar problem with only the "direction keys" being in the table.
There are many more games with this problem.

This is for a manual I downloaded 2010-10-11.

Thank you for your attention.

Hi!

I’ve found very important bug in Rockbox 3.7, witch my be dangerous for both the player and the memory card (if present).
It turned out that Rockbox doesn’t react to very low battery level while voice or FM radio is recorded. It causes damage to the recorded file when finally hardware falls due to lack of energy. This corrupted file is absolutely unreadable.

(./version.tex)) [2] [3]
1.

Class scrreprt Warning: \float@addtolists
You should use the features of package
instead of
Support for \float@addtolists may be removed
`scrreprt’ soon .

This is the warning text I get. We should probably update the syntax before it get broken.

I've tried a dozen of builds around, and it seems that the new touchscreen on D2+ is not working properly - there're wild distortions (sometimes it's possible to press a button on lower bottom of the panel, but usually it's to no effect at all) at the edges of panel - i have to press almost on the edge of panel in order to tap the buttons, for instance in this (http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=1146&target=cowond2) theme.

This appears to happen only on the simulator, as of r29012.

Fill a directory with, say, some .s3m files and .mod files. Mikmod plugin chokes on calloc (virtch.c, line 1227) during MikMod_Init() sequence.

Remove the .mod files and the plugin loads and works properly.

Reverting the change made to viewers.config in r29012 seems to fix this. I'm guessing the problem is somehow related to the way mod is both playable and viewable, but there's nothing obviously wrong with viewers.config that I can see. Maybe the buffers are getting screwed up somewhere in filetypes.c?

I suspect this bug has appeared since r29333, r29341, r29342 but I'm not 100% sure, it worked fine a few days back.

When I delete a file it goes well, but after I delete a file after first switching to another application or to the Android main screen deleting a file locks the main screen, it also locks up for other Android native screens like the keyboard you get when you create a directory.

I use Android 2.1 on a Cowon D3 device.

recent %Tl and %T changes need adding to the manual… didnt want to fiddle with the table.

The change is now that both those tags accept as their first param a label which links them.

%T(foo, 0,50,25,25, volup)
%?Tl(foo, 1)<helllo|goodbye>

So that conditional will only go true when that foo region is pressed. the label is optional on both, if it is missing on the %Tl then it acts as now (timeout since last press on anywhere on the screen)

I got this error twice in a row; once after the player had been running for a few (5-20) minutes; then I repeated my action and saw the error again. This is the text on the screen from the second occurrence (I did not write down the error text the first time; but when I tried to replicate the issue a 3rd time before submitting, I saw the same text):

Data abort
at 3001A6B0
FSR 0x8
(domain 0, fault 8)
address 0xB0153884

I had a playlist of 2255 items (created using Playlists | Create Playlist so I can just 'shuffle all').
While listening to a song (about 995/2255), I went to Database then Artist and scrolled to an artist that I knew had only one song, did a long press and selected Queue Next. The screen says 'Loading' for a couple seconds, then the music stops and I see the text above.

After the second error, I selected the artist and did the long press on the song and selected Queue Next, and did not get any error

I have a Sansa Clip, but I don't remember if it is a v1 or v2.
r29741-110417
debug | view hw info: AMSv2 variant 1

Hardware: Clip+ 8GB using internal memory
Problem: Playback of most APE files results into passages of loud noise during playback. The music is totally gone and noise is ear deafening loud. When rewinding, till music is heard, and replaying the problem part, error can be reproduced _sometimes_.
In other cases it either runs fine, or the problem occurs elsewhere in the file.

Since the problem does not always occur in a specific part of a APE file, it is hard to attach a sample file.

Problem persisted between ape files encoded in high and normal setting.
Using winamp + monkey audio 3.99 APE plugin, these files never shown problems.

This patch changes some of the settings of the AS3515 to highest audio quality, similar to  FS#11304  but for AMSv1.

AUDIOSET2_IBR_DAC_50 → AUDIOSET2_IBR_DAC_0

0% reduction (instead of 50%) of DAC bias. This will probably increase power consumption.

Not set AUDIOSET3_IBR_HPH.

Increases HP amp bias. Recommended by the data sheet for 16Ohm loads (and will probably reduce THD).

Would be great if these settings could be changed during audio playback to listen for any actual changes in quality :)

space80 is a digital-plate-like reverb effect, i dump it from my soundcard driver and translate it to c code, the original author is stylus02, thanks him for teaching me many things about the dsp theory:)

about the speed:
eats about 21.86MHz cpu on a cowon d2 target

Update to my tools/talkclips.py script. Minor updates which include:
- Better handling of logfile eg. we don't leave it open as was the case
before
- Report a few more details in the log eg. start/end time, duration, and
number of talk clips created. This is useful to dettect how many files
had problems…
- Summarise output for user at end, of processing, number of talkclips
created and how long this took (in seconds).
- Report to user how many talk clips will need to be created to give
them an indication of potential waiting time etc. This is calculated by
first determining how many files are on the device excluding .talk files, and how many .talk
files there are, and calculating the difference.
- This information allows a percentage indication to be drawn throughout
the script, so now the user can track the percentage as processing takes
place.

Patch is attached.

Thanks.

The .ape file I join make rockbox produce a horrible noise (like random audio) when seeking inside it. The original file was very large, so I created this one with:
dd if=original.ape of=test.ape bs=512 count=1000
So the produced file may not be correct, but it plays correctly in rockbox, and reproduces the bug, so I join it…

All i know is that this happened on 590mb tta file and after cutting it with cue splitter there was no problems with playback.

SVN:31187

since build 31646 text viewer stops bookmarking or saving the last position on any file it shows bookmark added when i press the center+down buttons but doesn’t actaully save it.
seems to have a problem writing to the file tv_file.dat.

Hello.

Can you somebody add some info about using talkclip for shortcuts.txt
in manual section 5.14 Shortcuts.

I'd recommend replace this

 "talkclip: <filename clip of a talk that speak When voice menus are enabled>"

for this

"talkclip: <filename clip with full path of a talk that speak When voice menus are enabled
 (example /.rockbox/filename.talk)>"

I suggest this because I took a long time before I figured out how it should be properly.

The %pb tag has a small problem. If an image is specified but no height, the tag draws the size of a line even if larger than the the image. This leads to pixel garbage below the progressbar.

The test.wps reproduces the problem in the 320x480 sdl app The default font, 27-adobe, has to be selected probably. The wps works if a height, i.e. 20 in this case as the image height, is specified

Test.png shows the problem. test.zip is the small test theme.

I'm using a Sansa Clip Zip, which hasn't been added to the Player Type list. I've noticed that several MIDI files crash the player, reporting OUT OF MEMORY and MALLOC BARF errors. This is more likely to happen with MIDI files with many instruments, such as orchestral pieces. One example is a MIDI file for Debussy's La Mer. It tries to load all instruments into memory before playing and will crash without playing anything. I don't know if this can be fixed with better memory management or if my player just has too little RAM.

Current developer build (2012-06-10), on Sansa Clip Zip
While audio is playing, connecting USB and disconnecting it again causes a splash with message “Error accessing playlist control file”. Sometimes followed by a hard crash (like undefined instruction).

Initial analysis shows that the problem occurs in playlist.c:get_filename. An lseek in the playlist control file fails. This lseek fails because the file descriptor (fd) was closed during USB connection. On receiving a SYS_USB_CONNECTED event in apps/misc.c, function system_flush() calls playlist_shutdown().
So the playlist subsystem seems to have been de-initialised during USB connect, but not completely, causing problems when the playlist subsystem resumes during USB disconnect.

This is reproducible on the simulator.

I'm running Rockbox 3.11.2 on a Sansa Clip+.
I followed these steps:
- go to the Main Menu
- Files
- long press on <microSD1>
- Playlist Catalogue
- Add to New Playlist
I tried to save the playlist with a long press of the select button (not sure of the button's actual name; it is the button in the middle of the 4-way controller and the one that is usually used to select the highlighted option). I was returned to the Files menu. The playlist did not get saved, and there was no error explaining why.

As a result, I spent a long time assuming that long press of select was a "cancel" action, and tried short and long presses of every other button trying to save the playlist.

Workaround: instead of accepting the suggested filename, remove the "<" and ">" characters from the auto-entered filename ("/Playlists/<microSD1>.m3u8") to be able to save the playlist.

Suggested fixes: The filename suggested by Rockbox should not include "<", ">", or other un-saveable characters. In addition, if the user tries to save a file with invalid characters, a warning or error message should be posted (like the "Cancelled" message that briefly pops up when the power button is pressed to exit from the set-filename screen).

Daily build: c413591-120705 and earlies.
When I connect powered down my Fuze V1 and disconnect from USB, it hangs displaying USB screen. I must hold power switch for several seconds to power off player. Tested on two different machines with windows7 x64. When I connect powered on player everything works perfectly.

When trying to start RockDoom on the iPod Classic, Doom appears to load normally until the iPod crashes and says "Prefetch abort at 71D0BF24 FSR (domain 0, fault 5)". Build ver. 8abdd9b-120902