Rockbox

This patch wil allow the use of the power key to respond yes in the yes&no screen, cause if in absolute touch screen mode would be impossible to respond yes.
It also will enable the hotkey option.
Italian and english translation for the yes&no.

A couple of config file options are missing from the manual appendix:

e.g.

backlight fade in: 2000
backlight fade out: 10000

This patch enables display vsync on the iPod Nano 2G, currently only for the Type 1 (LDS176) display. It removes tearing and can make animation smoother. However, right now it uses an extremely CPU-unfriendly method of waiting for synchronization, which makes the display quite slow in some circumstances. I hope to implement DMA to copy the framebuffer, which should help somewhat. However, I am probably going to need some help to do this.

TheSeven gets all the credit for this patch, since he found where the Tearing Effect (vblank) signal was connected to the s5l8701 and wrote the vsync code. All I did was drop it into the display driver in the right spot.

This patch adds an option to allow the Fastforward/Rewind buttons to be used to skip tracks entirely.

This is an itch of mine that I scratched and am offering up to others if you are interested.

I’ve been using audio lessons to learn Japanese and ran into issues navigating with the normal FF/RW buttons. The acceleration based on track length left me with no sense of time since I don’t keep track of how far I am into my 30 minute long lessons. Simply backing up 5 seconds to catch something I missed was a problem because I’d have to look at what I was doing to see how far I’d ff/rw. Kinda hard when one tick moves 30 seconds too. This is problematic when driving! The existing skip-length feature is really good for this. However, if I use that to skip 5 second increments then I abandon any way of skipping entire tracks. So I re-purposed the FF/RW buttons for skipping tracks and use skip-length for navigating within a track.

I’ve been using this in r27841 for about a week on my Gigabeat, but it seems like it should work for r27942 as well.

This patchs modifies the simulator so that it can emulate the storage layer. More preciserly, it enables all the storage code and simply redirect all storage_{read,write, …} to a file. This way, all fs functions used are the one of rockbox, which allows to debug the FAT code for example.

To run this, apply the patch and modify the makefile to add this: -DROCKBOX_SIMULATE_STORAGE_LAYER
to the line:
export GCCOPTS=….

When running the simulator, it expects to read from file simdisk.raw. You can change this by using the –root option:
./rockboxui –root <file>

The code doesn’t work for me, FAT code seems to choke on something for now, I’m not sure why.

r28528

This adds a bitmap to be shown as the output of the 3 modes of the calculator, similar to the color-codes on the color targets, except that it is a static image for the greyscale targets. Might as well use the screen space for something.

I think I have experienced a bug in 3.7+ builds with WPS themes related to %Vf.
If you put the %Vf on a new line, the following text is displayed, then cleared, but only if its a scrolling line, if the first line is static it is displayed properly, and subsequent lines are also displayed properly even if they are scrolling

example:

%Vl(b,0,108,176,60,1)
%Vf(999999)
%s%ac%?Ia<%Ia|>
%s%ac%?It<%It|%Fn>

artist is displayed briefly then cleared, if you take out %s artist is displayed properly, if you put the %Vf on the same line with %vl artist is displayed properly with scrolling, if you put a static text line before the first %s line then all lines are displayed properly.

so my quick fix is to just move the %vf on the line with %vl, but this bug probalby breaks many WPS, also this worked before 3.7, not sure when it stopped working. Tested this bug with latest build:r28534-101108 and 3.7 release sansa e200 v1. (also with latest e200 simulator)

this bug was not in builds up to or prior to: r27944-100830

URGENT/HIGH PRIORITY: Rockbox Firmware 3.7 installed with iRiver H300 1.29J.

Charging when in Rockbox mode (player switched on):

When Rockbox is running and the charger is plugged in, Rockbox can be seen charging the battery in the top left hand corner. When it is fully charged, it shows a full battery.

Charging when iRiver is powered off (player switched off):

When the charger is plugged in, the iRiver begins charging in Original Firmware mode. This is okay as the player charges correctly until Complete.

Booting into OF mode, shows a full battery charge so I can be sure it is fully charged.

However, boot back into Rockbox mode and Rockbox seems to be misreporting the battery charge as depleted - I say misreporting because at this point I know it is actually full/complete. (Booting back into OF mode would also confirm again at this point that there is indeed a full battery charge).

But run Rockbox 3.7 and after a few minutes, a false message - "Low Battery - Shutting Down" appears, after which Rockbox powers off.

I know this is inccorect, because if the battery was so low in OF, the iRiver OF would not even allow you to attempt to power back on (instead it would display a "Low Battery" picture on the display), but I can boot back into OF mode easily with no problems even after this message from Rockbox, again the OF shows a full battery and I can run it for hours with no problem so I know somewhere here there must be a miscommunication/misreading from the battery charge to the Rockbox 3.7 firmware.

Have tested this a number of times to ensure it is a fault and yes it presents itself everytime.

When a WPS defines a touch area combining %T and setting_inc or setting_dec, although the themesite parser does not show any problems and allows the theme to be loaded normally, the themesite doesn't display the theme. Some examples to be found in this forums thread : http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=25098.msg173725#msg173725

This patch applies to the tools used to generate voice files and talk clips. It adds basic support for the free SVox Pico speech synthesizer, which is the default speech system on Android phones, and is also available on Linux and Windows. Support for this synthesizer is very basic, because the pico2wave utility used to generate wav files of synthesized speech lacks the ability to set speed, pitch, volume, etc. This patch has so far only been tested for English, although several other languages are supported by the synthesizer. Note that you will need the SVox Pico synthesizer installed on your system. On Ubuntu 10.10 and most recent Debian-based systems, installing libttspico-utils should automatically pull down the correct files. This patch hasn't been tested on Windows, but it should work if pico2wave.exe is in your path.

To build voice files using SVox Pico, apply this patch and run

tools/configure –type=AV

Then select your target from the list. The rest of the defaults should be fine, but be sure to type "p" when the script asks for the TTS engine to use. Then run

make voice

and copy the .voice file into .rockbox/langs. The next time you start Rockbox, you should hear your voice prompts spoken using SVox Pico.

To generate talk clips for filenames and directories using SVox Pico, apply the patch and run

tools/voice.pl -C -s=pico -S= -e=rbspeexenc -E= <directory you want spoken>

Your talk files will be generated recursively in the directory you specify. All _dirname.talk and .talk files that correspond to individual files will be generated, with the exception of the _dirname.talk file for the top level directory you specified.

Please test this patch and provide any feedback you have. Thanks.

Bomberman like game with ai.
Not finished yet - lots of bugs and things to be done are known :)
Tested on Cowon D2 and also on some simulators with the same screen size (will work on other screen sizes too, but not now).
Somebody test it on iPod Video and on Zen Vision:M please.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
Hope the patch will work…

3.7.1, r29372, tested on Sansa e270

The idea is that when connected via USB, devices with button/wheel lights will indicate disk activity using the light, similar to a USB flash drive.

This works, sort of.
One real problem has been encountered:
The calls to buttonlight_on() and _off() seem to override the backlight_timeout_plugged setting, preventing the backlight from shutting off when this is enabled.

decode_packet in wmaprodec.c returns -1 almost immediately, most likely due to being passed corrupted data by the ASF parser, although I have not confirmed that to be the case. I've seen similar issues in WMA Std. Theres probably some ASF feature we do not correctly implement.

Split out from  FS#11748 .

This patch adds an option to prevent rewinding to the beginning of a track to avoid losing the current playback and resume position by accidentally pressing the Left key. Instead, Left always directly skips back to the previous track. This behavior can be enabled for all tracks or only for those tracks that can be autoresumed on automatic track change (which already is separately configurable).

I'm dropping this patch here for now because I see little chance right now of this being accepted into the trunk. Some developers have complained about the considerable configuration complexity of autoresume as it is, and although this additional behavior can be convenient, there is no ultimate need for it because the resume position prior to the rewind to 0:00 is preserved as long as another skip occurs within the first 15 seconds of the rewound track's playback (for example, by pressing Left again to skip to the previous track).

This change was originally contributed by Dave Slusher in  FS#11748 . I just added the configuration logic.

Patch relative to r29484.

Scrolling the scrollwheel doesn't count as a button press for the Textviewer plugin's idle Timeout.

Hi,

the random_folder_advance_config plugin fails to build the
folders on N900 / RaaA. I guess it suffers from the same
as the database update did in the past: It probably follows
starts over and over again in the /proc or /sys filesystem.

If you build RaaA for SDL with HAVE_TOUCHSCREEN disabled there are no key bindings for the SDL_PAD in any of the plugins. This patch attempts to define generic key mappings for the 3×3 number pad on a typical PC keyboard. It needs work however. For instance, after a bit of testing I decided I’d prefer not to wait for a key repeat on the HOME button to quit most of the plugins. That said, it may prove a useful starting point developers building for RaaA platforms without a mouse or touchscreen. (Like me with the zipit.)

For the Zipit I plan to fix up the generic SDL keys first, testing on a real PC, and then try and figure out a way to use most of them as is. I’m not sure yet if it makes sense to define a ZIPIT_PAD for the few plugins where alternative keys make sense, or use some other #ifdef.

This occurs on Stable 3.8.1 and all builds currently up to Tuesday, May 10, 2011 (r29850-110510).

When my iPod 3G is powered on with no song in the queue to be resumed, and the "resume Playback" item is selected, the screen flickers, the quick glimpse of the selected Now Playing theme can be seen (for me, DancePuffDuo, but also confirmed for every other one I've tried) and it returns me back to the Main Menu without any warning… just an abrupt return.

I've reinstalled stable as well as various builds leading up to the date above and all have the same effect.

The way to reproduce this bug is to Play a single song from the database that is by itself (in the artist/album category of your choosing, or, the last song in an artist/album grouping) and then, after it is done playing and returns you to the database or main menu, shut down and restart Rockbox. Select the Resume Playback item on the Main Menu. The screen should flicker and abruptly return you to the Main Menu without any warning that there is nothing to resume playing.

This bug does not reproduce with the iPod 3G simulator with 05/10/2011's build (r29850-110510).

Player: iPod Video 5th Gen. (5.5)
Rockbox Release v. 3.9 downloaded/installed 06/28/2011

Accessory: Griffin iFM Radio Receiver for iPhone and iPod - has a doc connector, short cable to a "dongle" which is the FM tuner, with earphone jack on the dongle. No batteries or other power source.

Here's a link to the product's Amazon page:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ERT46W

Booting into Apple firmware
1. Turned player on with nothing plugged in, the "Radio" menu item does not show up. Plugged in the Griffin iFM, the "Radio" menu item shows up, and when I select it, I get the FM frequency and dial, I can tune it, it works. I did not have to download anything at all from the Apple iTunes store.

2. Turned player on with iFM plugged in - the "Radio" menu item shows up, and from there it all works as above.

Booting into Rockbox OS 1. Turned player on with nothing plugged in, then plugged the iFM on the dock connector, the "FM Radio" item never shows up.

2. Turned player on with iFM plugged in, still no "FM Radio" on the menu.

3. Went into System then Debug then FM Radio - got message: "HW Detected: no"

So Rockbox does not detect it at all. And there's no sense expecting that any Apple/iTunes software would do anything under Rockbox.

What's interesting is, that with the player off (under both Apple and Rockbox OS), if I only plug in the Griffin iFM to the dock connector, and do nothing else, the player turns on. So there must be some kind of hardware detection there.

Actual behavior:

1. FM Tuner option never shows up on main menu (whether powering up with FM Tuner plugged in, or plugging in after power up).

2. When player is OFF, connecting the FM Tuner to the dock port turns on the player.

3. In System/Debug/FM Tuner, "HW Detected" is always "no"

Expected behavior:
1. Expected the FM Tuner option to be available on the main menu (at least when booting with the accessory plugged in to the dock port) as described in the manual.

2. Expecting to be able to tune in to FM stations and play at least through the tuner's headphones connector, if not through the player's headphones connector. Other features (displaying song information, presets, etc.) are secondary (to me).

The attached patch fixes a minor compiler warning on 64 bit platforms.

Continuing from FS#12240, these patches remove most of the rest of the dependencies librbcodec has on the rest of Rockbox.

Can't set the time of day clock

started at SVN R29234 and continues to current build.
all the builds work in the simulators but break on player.
when you enter in the settings to set clock it shows correct date but shows

00:00:00

and you can change it but it will not set returns you to settings menu and you get

1. -:–:–

unknown

built fresh svn versions each time to confirm when it started

see http://svn.rockbox.org/viewvc.cgi?view=rev;revision=30461 and http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/Main/CustomWPS#Drawing_the_lists_using_a_skin and bug me on IRC when someone finds the time to add it. hopefully the wiki has enough info though - Jd

By default logf() will output to the serial port if that is enabled (HAVE_SERIAL). This is kind of distracting if logf() is used to debug serial communication itself.

The attached patch does the following:
- make logf() only output to serial if LOGF_SERIAL is defined (defaults to undef)
- adds an advanced configure option to enable LOGF_SERIAL

The patch is against r30429.

1. tested devices: Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" and Android 2.3.3 AVD
2. tested revision: custom r30556 and rasher's unmodified r30562

3. condition: goto home screen by pressing 'Home button', then return to rockbox

4. symptom : any action that calls yesno screen(rename, delete, or 'Erase dynamic playlist', etc) will make rockbox unresponsible.
The only thing I can do is go to home screen then kill rockbox service.

5. If I go to home screen from main menu by 'Back button', the problem doesn't occur.

On build 30622 and previous builds, there is an issue with resuming playback.

When "Resume Playback" is selected from the menu, you transition into the music control screen but there is no output aside from some crackling noises.

Occasionally, the song would play for half a second before silencing.

The play/pause button during this situation shows a pause symbol which suggests that the song is supposed to play. However, the song progress bar remains at 0:00.

Currently on Cyanogenmod 7.1 nightly, Android version 2.3.5.

Our tick timer eats CPU even when the app is closed and music is stopped. To fix this, I added a tick_pause() and tick_resume() to kernel-android.c, to be called from java when appropriate.

I've figured out where to call pause, but the current location of resume is inadequate. The app wakes up to a black screen.

A clue, anyone?

The key lock feature on my clip+ can be circumvented. Select the last title in a directory using the file browser. Then activate the software hold. When the song finishes the Player skips to the file browser and the key lock is turned off after a button press. You can navigate around the menus until you return to the playing screen, then the key lock turns on again.

SVN r30720

This patch does all the UI work needed to add a very nice folder chooser. It saves and loads the search directories from /.rockbox/database.txt.

This is only the UI change, someone else needs to figure out how to make it actually work.

The system changes to searching the entire tree below folders (so no more ignoring some folders and then looking for uningored folders.

this also uses a half done patch to make lists handle indenting, not done for the skin list but if this is actually wanted that can be easily added

When connected to PC.
While transferring files from PC to Sansa e280v2.
Both source and destination folders are open.
Sansa shuts off after some time. while transfer is still happening.
this does not happen with original firmware.

To reproduce, ensure car adapter mode is enabled, start playback, and leave the now playing screen. If the charger isn't connected, connect it now. Then, disconnect the charger, causing a car adapter mode pause. Some parts of the now playing screen will overwrite the current screen. I see this in file view, main menu and settings. The main menu is quickly redrawn and back to normal, but the file view is only redrawn after I do something. Now, reconnect the charger, which causes a car adapter mode unpause after a short delay. The same thing happens.

I've seen this on:
- 5G iPod using Firewire power, running 3.10RC and r31106
- Archos Recorder V2 using charger, running 3.10RC and r31106

Edit: The same thing happens with headphone plug-in unpause (but not headphone unplug pause). I expect the problem also happens when using BUTTON_MULTIMEDIA_PLAYPAUSE, but I did not test that.

The problem is due to the pause_action() and unpause_action() calls in apps/misc.c. The second parameter is "bool updatewps". It is true in all cases except headphone unplug pause. I don't know why it's false in that particular case.

The second parameter probably shouldn't be there. The WPS should simply update itself if it is currently displayed.

Tested on r31173:

Deleted tracks are still visible after the automatic database update when the player boots. These tracks vanish as soon as I add some files. It also doesn't seem to matter if the dircache is enabled or not. Manually updating the database from the menu works as intended.

svn-r31216

when deleting a directory with several files in it the splash screen, that is appearing when deleting the individual files, gets printed over the last one without clearing the screen prior to it.

Hello,

i think rockbox is very nice. I use ist for several years.

Now i found a bug:
The Car Adapter Mode or rather the power-off does not work in the Radio-Mode.
I tested it with the versions 3.4 and 3.10.

Hardware: iriver H140, iriver H340, Sansa Clip+

Rockbox version: 3.10 downloaded from http://www.rockbox.org/download/byhand.cgi I have also reproduced bug on official firmwares as old as 3.5.1, and on my own builds.

Settings: 100% default except for enabling EQ and setting an EQ i.e. using graphical EQ to set LS -0.5 at 60Hz or LS +1.5 at 60Hz

Expected behaviour: music track, however loaded, starts in normal way, with no sounds other than those decoded from file. Restarting the track results in the same normal playback.

Actual behaviour: music track starts with an obvious and intrusive click. This happens whether the track is loaded individually, or if it is the first track of an album loaded via .m3u playlist. When using playlist subsequent tracks play normally, without a click. But restarting any track causes the click.

It makes no difference if the EQ Low Shelf Filter settings are a big change from flat, or a tiny difference. To induce the bug it’s enough that EQ is enabled and LS is not set to be flat i.e. just an increment of +/- 0.5 dB is enough, and changing the cut off frequency or the Q factor made no difference.

This bug is noticeable with any track that starts quietly, and especially with tracks from CDs that are not mastered to modern high levels.

The Clip does tend to make its own small click on manual track changes and some button presses; I am not confusing this with the bug I describe. On the irivers I get a single click, while on the Clip I get a very unmusical double click.

I’ve attached my H140 config to illustrate that the config is unremarkable and that apart from the EQ it is at default. If anyone needs me to try stuff or make any changes or try a patch that is fine, but I would prefer it to be on an iriver because the Sansa OF database refresh is so annoying.

Since the daily builds in between 3.9.1 and now and also on the release 3.10 i experienced a problem with MPEG player not displaying the the fonts right and the chip8 emulator just freezes after loading a file i tested it with a few game files found on the plugin wiki.

USB is broken on mr500. I’ve tried r31467, but this has been the case since at least a few weeks ago.

Enabling logf in the relevant places causes rockbox not to boot, so wasn’t helpful.

Languages like Thai use combining diacritical marks which display above or below the adjoining character. When text scrolls off the screen, the text jerks back and re-scrolls what seems to be the width of the diacritical mark. It seems that the scrolling algorithm is counting the width of the diacritical mark, where it should be ignored.

There is different level audio between Radio and Music Playback with the same db value. Level audio on Music Playback is too low.

When playing a sequence of two songs Rockbox on my HTC Desire S always crashes. I first had r30576-110921, and now it is r31516-120102. Cropped versions of the songs can be downloaded here:

http://www.vlado-do.de/rockbox/01_Wenn_die_Nacht_am_tiefsten_03m_08s_09h__03m_23s_22h.ogg http://www.vlado-do.de/rockbox/02_Wir_m%C3%BCssen_hier_raus_00m_00s__00m_28s_82h.ogg

They still reproducably crash my Rockbox. I found a workaround, though: mp3 versions of the same songs play all right. Rockbox for me still is the only known way to have gapless playback on my phone. Thanks for that guys!

Buy the way: the same ogg files made no problem in Rockbox on my old iPod nano.

After a lot of trial and error I found out the following.

It appears that 3.10 on my Clip V2 writes a bad nvram.bin file. When I try to set another interface language, my Clip freezes. It does not react to input and the clock in the top line doesn’t update anymore. The FM radio kept on playing though. I haven’t tried all available settings in the menu, just the ones I occasionally use. But the problem never occurred anywhere else, just upon selecting another language.

When I delete nvram.bin, I can set a language. Then I switch the Clip off and on again, and the problem comes back.

See attached the nvram.bin which causes a freeze.

PS.: No Sansa Clip in the Player Type selection on the left.

I'm using Rockbox 3.10 with the 01.02.16 Clip+ Firmware on a Sansa Clip+ 8GB, installed via the installer.

There are a lot of 44kHz/16bit FLAC files stored on the device. During playback it could happen that the next track starts while the current one isn't even close to finished. This can be in the first few seconds or in the middle of the song.

This usually doesn't happen to the same song twice. It's generally a different song each time. When skipping back to the track that was skipped, it usually plays without any problems.

The memory has been checked with CHKDSK and no errors were found. The FLACs play fine in foobar2000 and I'm certain that they are okay.

I do believe the error occurs most often after roughly quarter to half an hour of playback.

This may be related to FS#12208

When turning on my Sansa with Rockbox 3.10, the display sometimes goes all white and stays that way until the screensaver kicks in. The player works fine during that time and can be controlled blindly. After the screen turns off and I turn it on again, the screen works as expected. This does not happen all the time, but very often.

I know keymap changes can be a difficult topic, this one however is just a small change - which, I hope, improves usability of Clip players quite a bit.

I just swapped the behavior of two functions when browsing lists: short press on the power button returns to WPS, and pressing menu + center stops playback while in lists. Return to WPS is arguably the much more often used functionality of the two, and this change makes it easier to do that.

All settings should be listed there (even more so settings which cannot be set through the UI), but root menu order is only described in advanced_topic/main.tex as of now.

Using the %pL Tag (in WPS) in order to simply display it or use it in a conditional tag (like in the “analog” theme yields very high values (let call it spikes) - where they should not be, while the bar-type peak meter is working fine.

Within the simulator, everithing is running smooth, as far as I could see.

I tried to have a look at the sources but that’s too much at the moment.

Does somebody have a clue ?

Regards

  Ralf

When I skip backwards 3 songs, Rockbox aborts with the following dump:

Data abort at 60077EB8
FSR 0x1
(domain 0, fault 1)
address 0x00000005

It happens always, playing or in pause. At the 3rd song dumps.

RB version: 04cd1fd-120320

Regards!

Sorry, not sure in which build part of this ceased to function, but I think it was just prior to 3.10

In the Clip Sim's I can no longer access the Lock Screen. "H" used to do this for me, as I recall.

Also, the charge values in the Clip Sim's no longer incrementally increase and decrease. The charge values used to go from 0 to 100 and then back down again.

This applies to the Clip Zip Sim as well. I haven't tried the Fuze Sim.

Thanks.

When you configure Shortcuts to replace the Quick Screen then there is this unwanted behaviour:
Exiting the Shortcuts menu always returns to the Main Menu, not to the screen from which the Shortcuts menu was invoked by pressing the Quick Screen key combination.

Tested on: Sansa Clip+
Builds tested: latest daily - b7bc240-120409

			latest current -	2406005-120410

After updating Rockbox from 3.10 to 3.11.2 on my Ipod Nano 1g i noticed the robotfindskitten game did not work as it should anymore. When robot has touched the first object, the text on the top does not change anymore when touching more objects until he finds kitten. The kitten animation also is hidden behind the text of the first object and the scrolling of the text starts at the end, not at the beginning.
I think it worked fine in 3.10, or at least in 3.9.

Please investigate this problem.
Thanks,
Hugo