Just to be clear theres no reason you can’t make a reverse bootloader safely. Its just harder since:
The dual boot choice is actually made before the bootloader in the mkamsboot program, which is written in ARM assembly
Theres no way to recover from flashing a broken binary with mkamsboot
Theres no easy way to test the binary before flashing it
So basically you have to be at least a little familiar with ARM assembly and be willing to break your player to write one. Thats not most people who use the Sandisk firmware
OK Tapeworm, saratoga, thanks for the clarifications. I’m not a dev guy, BTW, but the tech details help to reinforce what you guys have said–its not advisable to go for a Reverse Bootloader at the moment.
My Fuze FM radio is not working in OF. I was hoping to see a Radio menu item in Rockbox just to verify whether it works and if it does, then it could only be some problem in the OF.
This might sound a little dumb, but how do I get to the FM radio in RB? I have the latest build of RB installed.
OK Tapeworm, saratoga, thanks for the clarifications. I’m not a dev guy, BTW, but the tech details help to reinforce what you guys have said–its not advisable to go for a Reverse Bootloader at the moment.
My Fuze FM radio is not working in OF. I was hoping to see a Radio menu item in Rockbox just to verify whether it works and if it does, then it could only be some problem in the OF.
This might sound a little dumb, but how do I get to the FM radio in RB? I have the latest build of RB installed.
The status chart next to the install directions says “FM-Radio: No” for the Fuze V2, so I think you have to wait for someone to add support for it.
@gwk1967 wrote:
FM radio works on my Fuze. It’s on the Rockbox main menu, just under Recording.
My fears were not unfounded, after all, I see no FM Radio under Recordings. Does it have to do with FM Radio going bust in my original Sansa firmware? Is there any connection with that?
Its possible the chip is just broken. You could also try older versions of Rockbox (3.5 is the oldest build for the Fuzev1 you’re going to find without compiling your own) and see if any of them ever detected the radio.
@saratoga wrote:
Its possible the chip is just broken. You could also try older versions of Rockbox (3.5 is the oldest build for the Fuzev1 you’re going to find without compiling your own) and see if any of them ever detected the radio.
If its the chip, can it be repaired? Go back to old RB version? Nah! I’m not ready for that. Is there any other way out?
Is there a pattern? Like what type of videos don’t show? Ones that were converted using the Sansa media converter or others that you just dragged and dropped. I don’t use video at all on this tiny ass player so I can’t really help there.
Again is there a pattern here? The pics that don’t show up are they JPG? TIF? GIF?
This I can answer for sure. Slotradio\Slotmusic is a proprietary Sansa product. The RB developers will not and probably can not implement that, nor IMO, should they. This is why being able to revert to the Sansa firmware is such a great option.
Message Edited by Peregrine on 04-09-2010 03:23 PM
Is there a pattern? Like what type of videos don’t show? Ones that were converted using the Sansa media converter or others that you just dragged and dropped. I don’t use video at all on this tiny ass player so I can’t really help there.
Videos were converted with vidzForFuze & showed up in OF. In RB, video folder properties indicate 29 files in the folder, but none show up. I changed settings to show all files. Now I can see all .avi files, but trying to open them does nothing.
Again is there a pattern here? The pics that don’t show up are they JPG? TIF? GIF?
They were .bmp files
This I can answer for sure. Slotradio\Slotmusic is a proprietary Sansa product. The RB developers will not and probably can not implement that, nor IMO, should they. This is why being able to revert to the Sansa firmware is such a great option.
Yes. Its something to do with the DRM stuff they wrote about in the manual.
I’m trying to install rockbox in my v2 fuze it I don0t seem to be able to get it…
I’ve followed the instructions in the sansaams page. I’ve compiled the bootloader and patched the original firmware, i’ve copied the .rockbox folder in the fuze, and i’ve flashed the patched firmware to the fuze, but then, only the OF shows up.
What am I missing?
EDIT: i’ve tryied with firmware *17 and *26 to no avail. After firmware upgrade is complete, it boot directly into “Refreshing database”, and on next reboot it will ask me language and region.
Message Edited by ssorgatem on 04-11-2010 12:36 PM
EDIT: i’ve tryied with firmware *17 and *26 to no avail. After firmware upgrade is complete, it boot directly into “Refreshing database”, and on next reboot it will ask me language and region.
Are you sure you copied the right firmware file? After you run mkamsboot you’ll have two firmware files, one patched, one original. It sounds like you copied the original. But I’m just guessing . . .
EDIT: i’ve tryied with firmware *17 and *26 to no avail. After firmware upgrade is complete, it boot directly into “Refreshing database”, and on next reboot it will ask me language and region.
Are you sure you copied the right firmware file? After you run mkamsboot you’ll have two firmware files, one patched, one original. It sounds like you copied the original. But I’m just guessing . . .
Yes, I’m 100% sure about it. I’ve tried with different firmware versions patched with mkamsboot, and also woth a 2.3.31 patched firmware I found on RB forums, but to no avail.
What should I see when booting? Could it be a bad .rockbox installation? I’ve tried also several builds, mine and from RB page…
Video (only supports mpg1/mpg2, meaning videos will take up more space for the same quality)
Eye candy (some nice custom themes, but you can tell RB is not commercially backed. Menu is also cluttered and confusing for newbies)
I don’t think the video thing is true. MPEG4 with all the MPEG4 features disabled is little or no better then MPEG2 with all the MPEG2 features enabled. Theres no free lunch in video compression, as soon as you turn up the compression, frame rate drops proportionally. The best compression ratio you can achieve at a given quality is basically determined by the speed of the Fuze’s CPU and nothing will change that.
I do agree with the menus though. We have too many menus, and whenever we try to clean them up a lot of people start complaining that we’re removing important features. Such is the way of open source though.