rockbox 3.5: ipod doesn’t recognize the connection of usb. i understand that rockbox doesn’t support usb on a 3G ipod, but it would be nice to boot into disk-mode like it does for firewire.

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

When loading a saved Brickmania game, the game is loaded corrupted. Please see screenshot attached to see for yourself. There is one brick in the right side which is shown corrupted, and one corrupted rectangle in the left side of the screen which drops like a power object, and stays at the bottom of the screen.

This issue happens on Cowon D2 target. It doesn't happen on the D2's simulator.

Looking at the code and comparing the loading/saving function against the Bubble's game functions, I can see that the return value of file operations is not checked (I'll fix that).
In Bubbles, there's a single file operation of reading/writing the game context struct. In Brickmania there are several consequent file operation to read/write each variable. Maybe the drivers doesn't handle this well on this target. A workaround for that could possibly be to join all saved variables under one game context struct as in Bubbles, but that could mask a real bug somewhere else.

Currently with r24775-100219 on a Gigabeat 20
Checked that it isn’t something to do with the HDD
sometimes after USB transfer or just right after startup, after pressing “Resume playback” it just halts there,showing the album art and sometimes you can change songs/volume but it isn’t playing,then it just freezes and you cannot control anything that needs to be turned off via power switch, and sometimes it requires certain trials before it can normally startup and play.
Additionally, if that happens during startup, it is noticeable that a normal startup produces sort of a background noise,while a buggy startup is simply silent in my headphone.

This patch which is a small change in bidi.c contributes with the diacritics patch (http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/10720) to fix the diacritized Arabic text joining problem

Added new menu item under Settings.General.System, to select whether USB cable connection enters charging mode by default, or data transfer mode.

By default, the option is set to "No". Meaning, in order to have RB enter charging mode, a specific button should be pressed by the user.

If the option is set to "Yes", USB connection causes RB to enter charging mode, unless the specified button is pressed, causing RB to switch into data xfer mode.

This flyspray task will hold the development of a potential usb audio driver for rockbox.
It will also serve for the development of the isochronous transfer support support in usb code.

Screenshots in the manual are nested into a 'figure' environment, but the only purpose of this is to be able to have a caption. The floating feature of 'figure' by using the placement attribute 'H' (='Here!').

This patch makes screenshots non-floating while keeping captions below the images. This is done via the LaTeX package 'caption2'.

Placement attribute for figures is set back to the LaTeX default so that figures can really float should we need it.

Hi,

I think that the problem reported on  FS#10919  is still here, or at least not completely solved.
But now, I get the feeling that the pause only happens when the buffer refill is triggered via a track skip. During normal playback, it don't seem to happen any more.

The build I tried it on is r25249.

TIA

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

sansa fuze v1 scroller doesn’t obey ‘first button press enables backlight only’

rockbox 3.5.1

This patch adds a per-thread runtime variable which indicates the ticks the particular thread has been running.

This can for example help identifying threads that occupy the CPU for a long period of time.

This is a reopening of issue  FS#7354  (quoted below) related to playback problems involving cuesheet support and flac files (labelled #1 in the original post). Jumps to certain positions in flac file according to the cuesheet fail consistently.

The bug is extensivelly described in the original report and can be easily reproduced in current versions. I reproduced it in many situations with the following configuration:

Equipment used: Cowon D2 and Cowon D2 simulation
Rockbox version: tested on r25508-100407 and r24777-100219 (simulation)
Rockbox settings: Cuesheet support ON, other on default
FLAC files: Ripped form my original CDs with EAC (to WAV and cuesheet) in secure mode and processed with FLAC 1.12 and/or 1.14 compression level 8. MD5 checksums on cuesheets and FLACS checked. Cuesheet syntax OK, cuesheet file encoding UTF8-DOS and/or DOS. Works properly my on computer.

Quote of the original post

When Playing with rockboy on sansa e200 V1 , Rom that have a size of more than 1m Bug and Rockbox often shutdown. And even if these roms run, the speed isn't playable.

Emuriver is an emulator (not simulator) for iriver ifp-7xx series. It’s part of the http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IriverIfpPort and has until now been hosted at the main author’s (Tomek’s) site http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~tmal/rockbox/ It includes a tool to create flash images for use with the emulator, and a tool to mount such images and do basic file management on them.

This version is almost identical to the last version from Tomek’s site, but I had to fix a few bugs to make it usable on my system. Changes are as follows:

flashimgtool.c: Outputs usage information on errors. (I didn’t do this; I don’t know where this code came from but it’s useful.)

hardware.c: Bug: Arguments were missing in a function call which would sometimes cause segmentation faults, and (I don’t know why or how) slow down the emulator.

main.c: Changed a default file name from prog_flash.bin to prog_flash.img (I didn’t do this)

main.c: Bug: Added explicit return value to nonvoid function. The implicit return value was sometimes -1 which indicated an error so emuriver aborted.

make_flash_img.c: Optimizations: “if” replaced with “else if”. (I didn’t do this)

uicurses.c: Rename a variable into someting more unique. (I didn’t do this)

The reason I’m submitting this patch is that I think the emulator could be useful as it is for those trying to build the ifp port from SVN, that it could (maybe) be worked on to support other players, and that my bugfixes should be included for those building emuriver.

There are a few issues: The flashimgtool subdir in emuriver duplicates a few (three years old) files from RB, disk.c, fat.c, and some more. You might not like the directory structure. It uses an ancient version of autotools. I haven’t been able to create flash images that actually work with flashimgtool. I haven’t built the RB port for ifp yet, so I don’t know if it will run in emuriver or not.

Yes I have discussed the patch in IRC.

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

installed rockbox and doom (freedoom) all correctly. but problem is that the navigation keys dont work when the game starts. cant move. but i can bring up pause menu by flicking hold on then off but then only up(menu button) works in addition to the center button being able to select

to reproduce:install latest build for ipod classic 5th gen 30gb
install doom from the rockbox utilities program
run doom in ipod
game loads
face at bottom of screen moves, showing it isnt frozen… cannot move

and yes i have tried configuring the keys, it doesnt work

New build target, for iriver E10.

A lot of target-specific functions are missing, so it doesn't compile when it reaches the linker. But I think it's about time to insert the build target into SVN, and #rockbox seems to agree.

Also, building a simulator build works quite well. The simulator BMP and the keymaps needs some work, but it works pretty well, including music playback.

I've done some testing with building for other targets and nothing seems to be broken by this patch. I couldn't figure out how to include the BMP in the patch so i attach it separately.

Initial support for showing input in the fft plugin. Now, on targets supporting recording, instead of quiting when no track is playing, fft starts monitoring the audio input (using the settings under Recording Settings).

The first patch is just the functional changes, the second patch fixes the indentation of the entire file.

I’m not sure if it works at all since I don’t have a device that can record.

This is actually release 3.5.1

I have quite a few low bitrate .wma audio files that play fine in the original firmware, play fine in VLC, but skip, stutter, and hiss in Rockbox.

The file is 20kbps, 22 kHz, mono, Windows Media Audio V2.

I have attached a sample cut from a larger file. Like the original files, it plays fine in the original firmware and in VLC.

Hi all,

Currently for all models, the Morse Code input method can only type lowercased letters. Here I provide a patch which enables people to switch between lower cased and upper cased letters, I implemented this for Fuze and Fuze v2, and further fixes will be provided soon (or someone else want to add some key mapping options into your keymaps?)

The patch (also attached):

Index: apps/action.h

   ACTION_KBD_DOWN,
   ACTION_KBD_MORSE_INPUT,
   ACTION_KBD_MORSE_SELECT,

   /* the following are helper actions for touchscreen targets,

   "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890,.?-@ ";

                       state.morse_code |= 0x01;
               }
               break;

           case ACTION_KBD_SELECT:

                   /* turn off hangul input */
                   state.hangul = false;

               }

               break;

           int morse_code;

           outline[0] = morse_alphabets[i];

           sc->putsxy(x, y, outline);

           morse_code = morse_codes[i];

   { ACTION_KBD_DONE,         BUTTON_UP,                        BUTTON_NONE },
   { ACTION_KBD_ABORT,        BUTTON_HOME|BUTTON_REPEAT,        BUTTON_NONE },
   { ACTION_KBD_MORSE_SELECT, BUTTON_SELECT|BUTTON_REL,         BUTTON_NONE },

   LAST_ITEM_IN_LIST

I've been working on PictureFlow - WPS Integration. I repeatedly had cases where showing a tracklist or playing for certain albums would cause a segfault. I tracked this down to a bug in the track list indexing. It only occurs under certain memory allocation circumstances that doesn't occur as readily with the std build. I have attached here a patch to fix it.

Explanation: the create_track_index requests memory for building a track index. The variable "tracks" references an array descending from the buffer top end. When a reallocation occurs it currently only moves the "tracks" position when a track count > 0. However, in some cases a reallocation occurs before the first track is stored and in that case the "tracks" position gets left in the middle of the track_names data causing corruption and then segfault. I've moved the (track_count > 0) decision so that it only controls moving tracks struct data. The "tracks" offset must happen even when track_count is 0.

This patch fixes the segfault on my Sansa Fuze v2 and in UISim. Tested against r26114.
I would expect the same result in other platforms.

I've also included this bug fix in my PictureFlow - WPS Integration patch until this bug fix gets accepted.

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.

This patch modifies hardware registers for pclk & fclk in one instruction.

I’m currently testing it on Clipv2 to see if it gets rid of crashes

This is a patch meant for Clip+ that adds a “Reflection” setting to
allows choosing if to show a reflection or not. When no reflection is shown the images are moved to bottom of screen allowing for title at top and keeping them in the blue
will work for other devices. I tested it on Fuze v2 but others may have unknown problems related to screen size differences. For screens > 100 high it doesn’t move the albums
against r26185 in UISim
you want this as a patch against my pictureflow-wps integration patch let me know as I have one

This very small mod changes the tracklist so it doesn't fade lines when on a mono display (bit depth 1). Tested against r26241 in Sim only (because I don't have a mono display device).
Please report back if problems.

This patch adds a couple more lines to Track Info for Play Count and Rating.
Currently these don’t seem to show up anywhere else.

Tested against r26427 with Fuze v2 and USim.

When the battery is nearly empty and the iriver H10 is about to shutdown, the volume sometimes suddenly increases progressively, as if the volume UP button was pressed and held down, all the way up to the maximum.

This has happened to me about 3-4 times so far. Pressing the volume DOWN button somewhat counters this bug, but only for as long as the DOWN button is used - the volume keeps increasing.

This occurs with Rockbox Release 3.5 (not 3.4 as the Report Version field of the ticket says).

A mixed RTL with LTR text appears in a missed order not conforming to bidi logical to visual algorithm of unicdoe.

Implementation is ready in bidi_l2v() , but the “orientation” parameter is hardcoded and passed as “1” always

A suggested solution is either pass “orientation” as 0 for any RTL text, or tie the orientation parameter with the “alignment” option of the text viewer.

- write a word like “مسمار” in a text file, or just use the word as the file name

- the last character “ر” will appear as the first one like this: “رمسما”

- this bug appeared only since r26019

- when reverting to r26018 the bug won’t show up

- for some combination of letters like “دليل” the issue happens for the last 2 characters

- for some other words the problem doesn’t happen at all

- the only common case is that this happens only with last word in a line appearing on the viewport

When the option “Auto-change directory” is enabled, my Ondio crashes at the end of the current folder’s playlist when it would have to create a new one.

The error it shows is “I09: CPUAdrEr at 09010FF8”. The address varies a bit with the actual revision, this example is with r26246 and an OndioFM backlight build (but the problem is present in plain SVN builds too). Looking at the map file shows that the crash happens in the cue_find_current_track function.

Bisecting build turned up that the error was introduced with the cuesheet rework in r21978/9 and the fix in 21982 fixed usual folder playback but not auto-change directory. It is reproducible on the Archos Recorder so I assume a general hwcodec problem.

preamble first :) I am new at the rockbox-project, so this is my first commit. I hope that I am right here with that. If not, please notify, and say, where somewhat would be better.
Strictly speaking this is my first contribition to an opensource-project ever. I am a friend of OSS since years and now I want to give something back ;) I am thinking, rockbox is a nice project to get in the open source scene.

To get in the rockbox-project I tried to improve the jewels-game. First I changed the controls for the Sansa Fuse in the Simulator. The old controls are good for the real Fuse, but very unconfortable at simulator.

Then I wanted jewels to get more difficult with higher levels. To do so I changed it to start with 4 types of jewels only and get one more each three levels till they are 7 types.

Greetings,
Michael

This adds the translatable string LANG_DISC for display in WPS themes. E.g. a theme could use the following to show “Disc 2” for a multidisc album:

%?ik<%Sx|Disc| %ik|>

Disc is a 4 or 5 letter word in most languages, so it won’t add much clutter in themes which would like to make use of this. A comparable example is the “Next:” (LANG_NEXT) which is used when displaying the next track in a playlist.

This is a beginning of support for line out and dock connection detection for the e200v2 (and possibly fuze).

The first patch enables line out in as3514.c. Line out is always enabled at this point, so battery life may suffer. Line out volume is set to 0dB and does not change unless the volume is set below -40dB at which point the DAC volume begins to decrease. This patch does not support as3525v2 at this time.

The second patch detects a connection to a dock on e200v2 (and possibly Fuze) and prevents switching to USB mode and rebooting to the OF. For this to work properly, you need to have Rockbox already booted. There is no need to press any button on connection. If a normal USB cable is attached, the OF will be booted.

TODO:
1. Only enable line out when connected to a dock and disable line out when the dock is disconnected.
2. Provide support for additional as3525 and as3525v2 devices. Information on IO port changes when connecting a dock is needed for this.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a directory: /AUDIO;BOOKS
2. Place a file in it: /AUDIO;BOOKS/file.mp3
3. Start playing the file, and then create a bookmark
4. Do “List bookmarks” for the file
5. The bookmark menu lists something like this:

BOOKS/;file
0:02, 2, Shuffle

The problem seems to be that .bmark files use semicolons to separate the fields of information. If there’s a semicolon in the path, it thinks that it indicates the end of the path and the beginning of the filename.

This patch adds a sector-based read/write cache between the storage and fat drivers.
It has a static pool of 64 sector buffers which can be locked by the file handling code to replace the sector buffers in the file and dir structs, and serve as cache as long as they aren’t used. It can also be used to enforce exclusive access to a sector.

If requested using the STORAGE_NEEDS_ALIGN define, all storage accesses will be aligned to cacheline boundaries.

Seen with r27199 on the e200 simulator.

If I place a .wps file in the root directory and “play” it from the file browser, the WPS is not loaded. I’d expect it to load but not to be saved as the setting.

The same file is loaded if it’s in the directory /.rockbox/wps, i.e. it’s not the wrong file contents that’s causing the error.

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.

when the FM tuner is turned on and say that you want to go to Add a Preset you cannot hear thevoice over the radio. this should be controlled where the Fm volume is turned down and the volume of the voice is turned up just like in playing regular music.

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.

Hello.

I found that bookmarks which was automaticaly created (by the function Bookmark on Stop with set to Ask) from tagcache don’t work. Problem is in missing path to file in bmark file. I made more test and now I attach bmark where first line/bookmark is from tagcache and second line/bookmark is from files browser.
Both are on approximately same time.

I testted on Sansa c250 and Sansa Fuse2 with Rockbox r27481-100718.

Can anybody from developers focused on it, please.

Much more thanks.
Salaba

I am trying to use the last method mentioned on the ipodpatcher wiki page to write Rockbox directly into the OSOS image on my iPod Nano2G. Sometimes it works properly, but other times it fails saying that it couldn't read the header from the .ipodx file. I am following the instructions exactly, so that can't be an issue. I have tried hexediting the .ipodx file, and in some cases I can get ipodpatcher to read the header by editing the first four values, but this always causes a Checksum Error. Here is the exact output:

C:\Users\Michael Marley\Downloads>ipodpatcher.exe -wf rockbox.ipodx
ipodpatcher 5.0 with v4.0 bootloaders (v1.0 for 2nd Gen Nano)
(C) Dave Chapman 2006-2009
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices… [INFO] Read XML info (4 bytes)
[INFO] Ipod found - 2nd Generation Nano ("winpod") - disk device 1
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive1
[INFO] Sector size is 2048 bytes
[INFO] Part Start Sector End Sector Size (MB) Type
[INFO] 0 63 48194 94.0 Empty (0x00)
[INFO] 1 48195 1982462 3777.9 W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Read XML info (4 bytes)
[INFO] Ipod model: 2nd Generation Nano ("winpod")
[ERR] Failed to read header from rockbox.ipodx
[ERR] –write-firmware failed.

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.

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

e.g.

backlight fade in: 2000
backlight fade out: 10000

Some collections (such as ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/amusements/life/dblifelib-2.tgz) use an extension of “.l” instead of “.cells” for what appears to be the same file format (same comment character and same characters for dead and live cell).

This patch just adds an entry to viewers.config so that Rockbox will treat .l files as supported and open them with Rocklife.

In my customized rockbox theme, there is a short (half second?) but irritating delay before the progressbar is drawn. This delay is apparent when pressing a button to turn on the backlight, so it doesn’t show up in the simulator. Here is a video of the issue happening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LAfW8-BjjE

I’ve tried moving the progressbar to the very top of the wps. I also tried changing the wps around to have each icon in a seperate viewport which didn’t help.

I’m using rockbox version 27667.

This patch adds an additional menu option to the list of WPS hotkey choices, “Announce Information”. This voices basic information about the player, currently playing file and current tracklist.

This feature reads a simple definition with a single line of no more than 20 characters from the file “announce.cfg” in the .rockbox directory.

This definition consists of a string of single character tokens, each of which announces a particular canned piece of information.

The tokens are:

A - current time
B - elapsed time and total length of the current track
C - current track number and total tracks in playlist
D - battery level as a percentage
E - battery remaining in hours and minutes
F - sleep timer remaining in minutes

If more than one token is specified, more than one piece of information is announced, so:

AB

would announce the time followed by elapsed time and track length

Multiple announcements may be bound to the hotkey by separating one or more groups of tokens with a “:”

A:DF

In this example, the first time the hotkey is pressed, the time is announced. If it is pressed again within 10 seconds, the battery level and sleep timer are announced and so on.

A space between tokens adds a short pause to the announcement.

If no announce.cfg file is present, the time is announced by default.

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 contains several improvements to the Chopper game designed to make it run with a high framerate instead of a low, jerky one. Previously, the game depended on sleeping for a number cycles before drawing another frame, causing very jerky motion. Now the game should run at a high framerate all the time. The gameplay should be about the same, at least on targets with a display of >64px. I don’t have any of these smaller targets, so I wasn’t able to test. Please tell me what you think of my changes.

The following set of WPS tags demonstrates:

# WPS Document
%wd
%V(0,0,-,10,2)%Vb(000000)%Vf(FFF000)
%aL%cH:%cM %ac%pv %aR%bt
%V(0,11,-,30,2)%Vb(000000)%Vf(FFF000)
%it

If you alternately insert and remove a space between the second occurence of %Vb/%Vf, the track title text appears and disappears. It appears to happen in a few other variations, but this is the shortest concrete example.