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My experience with Rockbox (first hour)

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djrichwoods:
I'll wait for a stable release of Rockbox for the Iriver H320.  Too buggy and my battery life is nonexistent (like 2 minutes) while using Rockbox.  Booting into Iriver I have no problems whatsoever so Rockbox went bye bye...

I still want to use it as Iriver doesn't have anything that maintains consistent volume between different leveled tracks but it's gotta be rock solid.

Shame, it really has potential...

Febs:

--- Quote from: djrichwoods on April 30, 2007, 09:40:55 AM ---I'll wait for a stable release of Rockbox for the Iriver H320.  Too buggy and my battery life is nonexistent (like 2 minutes) while using Rockbox.  Booting into Iriver I have no problems whatsoever so Rockbox went bye bye...
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When was the last time you tried it?  Power management issues on the H300 series were fixed about a year ago, and Rockbox battery life should equal, if not exceed, the original firmware.  Rockbox is also quite stable on the iriver H100 and H300 series these days.

djrichwoods:

--- Quote ---When was the last time you tried it?  Power management issues on the H300 series were fixed about a year ago, and Rockbox battery life should equal, if not exceed, the original firmware.  Rockbox is also quite stable on the iriver H100 and H300 series these days.
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I was using the build from 3 days ago... I tried building the database and poof it dies and the rebooting won't work because the battery was dead.  Recharge the battery, try to change the .wps to boxes and poof the unit dies and the battery is dead.  Recharge it, just try to play music, after 2 minutes poof the unit dies and the battery is dead.  Recharge it, boot up into iriver and play music for hours with the battery icon showing as full.

And not only that, the menus kept jumping around and the unit kept wanted to start playing music when I hadn't pushed play.  All in all it was a frustrating experience.  I wasn't digging the text only GUI either... I know that apparently there's a lot you can do to improve that but after my dead battery experiences I didn't want to spend any more time playing with it less I'd have to recharge my battery for 2 hours again.

Rockbox was installed correctly, I flashed the bootloader to iriver firmware 1.30E and used the current build from April 27 and extracted the fonts to the root folder.  I read the installation instructions thoroughly several times to see if I missed anything that might explain my experiences but all the bases seemed covered.

I thought it might be a dead battery but the fact that I can play music booted to Iriver with no problems whatsoever seems to render that idea moot.

So how long before they finally decide the H3xx release is stable?

pondlife:
Something's definitely wrong with your H320 or Rockbox installation.  I've used Rockbox nearly every day for 8 months on my H340 and it *is* stable .  The only remaining problem I have is the occasional display of the wrong track details (which is a general playback bugs on all non-Archos targets).

Also battery life here is better under Rockbox than the original firmware; from a full charge, I get about 16 hours from Rockbox versus about 13 hours from the original.

Edited to ask: Do you have a remote plugged in? Does removing or plugging one in make a difference?  I run both with no remote and a non-LCD remote, FWIW.

pondlife

djrichwoods:
No remote.

I should add a caveat that I bought this used from someone off Craigslist who told me that it still worked perfectly.  And when running Iriver it does run perfectly.

I also should add that I formatted the drive (using the Iriver format option) before installing Rockbox so I was starting with a clean drive.

I believe people when they say that Rockbox is stable on their H3xx unit... I didn't find this to be the case...

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