rbutil - The Rockbox Utility needs testing

[jmdennis]

I have tried the binary and I like it.  The only things I noticed not working are the quick start which shows greyed out for the 2 items.  Also themes is greyed out and thus you can not download these.

[bluebrother]

The only things I noticed not working are the quick start which shows greyed out for the 2 items.  Also themes is greyed out and thus you can not download these.

Well, as some parts aren't implemented yet they are (intentionally) greyed out I'm working on implementing themes (but this might take some additional days as I also intend to make the interface to the themes site cleaner -- the themes site currently gets reworked so is's a good time to do it).

Edit: I just tried upx on the rbutil executable, and it compresses even better than zip. I uploaded the result to http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uhcn/rockbox/rbutil/rbutilqt.exe if somebody want to try. The device selection was changed

[jmdennis]

I  will try this tonight when I get to work.  I do not have a Windows machine at home so will have to use it there.  I did like the other version you had as it was much cleaner then the version on rockbox.  It also seems to be smoother on downloads.  I will report how it works when I try it out.

I tried it out and I like it.  I only tested the install rockbox to install the latest version.  When you implement more I will test those as well.

[jmdennis]

I found one issue with it.  When I tried to install the bootloader it would not install as it showed no ipod found but I am able to install rockbox.  This may just be a problem with rbutil as when I try with the latest windows version it does not seem to do any thing in regards to downloading the firmware.

[bluebrother]

Installing the bootloader and Rockbox itself is completely different for Ipods. Installing the bootloader needs raw disk access and thus admin priviledges. Installing a build does not, it only needs to access the Ipod as a disk drive. So this might be simply a rights issue -- installing the bootloader works fine for me.

[saratoga]

Just tried this on the Ipod 3G and it worked great.

[jmdennis]

I do have admin rights on the PC at work and I could not get it to work.  I had to use the old utility to install it.  I even went so far as to format my iPod and reload it with iTunes before trying it again and no luck.  I am glad it works for others but was not working for me.

[bluebrother]

I do have admin rights on the PC at work and I could not get it to work.  I had to use the old utility to install it.

So I understand correctly that
- it didn't work and you only got a "no ipods found" error
- using ipodpatcher worked fine
- you didn't change anything in between those two runs?

This is somewhat strange as rbutil uses the same code as ipodpatcher does ...

[jmdennis]

I also was unable to use rbutil to do an uninstall of the firmware for rockbox.  I was able to use it to uninstall rockbox folder but not the firmware using rbutil.  I did not try ipodpatcher for this as I decided to reformat my ipod and restore is using iTunes before I did the install again.  When I did using rbutil it showed no ipod found but ipodpatcher found it and was able to install the firmware with no issues what so ever.