Gigabeat Hold button disables next/prev on remote

[jakko]

Build 20070507:

When the hold button is activated on de gigabeat itself, the 'next track' and 'previous track' on the remote don't function anymore.
Strange: Fast forward and backward DO function.

Anyone have experienced this?

[Chronon]

I have today's build (20070510) and it works fine for me.

[jakko]

Nope, the same thing.
However, when I'm pressing next/prev on the remote, the blue buttons on the side of the Gigabeat lighten up, but the same track keeps playing.
Also strange: when I'm holding the next/prev on the remote, the fast forward/backward works Ok.

Remember, this only happens when the Hold button is activated on the main unit.



Something else:
While searching for a solution for the above problem, I've made some interesting modifications to the code. Because my Gigabeat is in my pocket practically all the time (so no visible screen), I've found these changes very usefull:

1. Holding the play button on the remote can now switch the Gigabeat off
2. Low frequency beep when powering off
3. Pressing any button on the remote doesn't switch on any lights on the player
4. Pressing any button on the remote immediately works, no matter what the 'switch backlight on first keypress only'-setting says.
5. When in WPS, the remote control buttons can't activate any other menu.
6. JPEG-viewer: Changed keymapping. Vol+/- now loads next/prev file.

For me, these work perfect.
If anybody is interested, I'm happy to zip the modified files.

[Chronon]

Very strange.  I updated again to fix the shutdown issue that has been discussed recently.  My player still works fine.  I switch hold on the player and the remote buttons all work properly.  I can FF/REW as well as skip to the next/prev track.  Odd.

Out of curiosity, which filed did you modify?

[markun]

If anybody is interested, I'm happy to zip the modified files.

I'm interested, but it would be nicer to have a patch. Did you download the code with svn? Then you can just do "svn patch > jakko.patch". You then could place it in the patch tracker.

[mgl888]

that'd be VERY useful for me too. Can I get a copy of the zip file somehow?

email: ming.liu1989@gmail.com

[jakko]

I'm not complete familiair with all ins and outs of the developers tools yet; I just downloaded Cygwin and the Rockbox sourcecode last week and I own a Gigabeat one week longer.
I couldn't get svn to work within a few minutes, so I just downloaded the zipped sourcecode...

But as soon as I find some time, I'll try to make a decent patch.
(I believe it's better to make a patch for each change separately ?)


Like I said, I just got my Gigabeat and didn't bother to use the original firmware but put Rockbox on it right away. But after a week of using it, some things began to irritate me. Therefore these changes.
I actually did the modifications on my lunchbrake at work

In the mean time, I've installed Cygwin and SVN at home. Unfortunately, my modified sourcecode is still on my computer at work...
So don't expect the patch(es) earlier than somewhere this week...

[markun]

(I believe it's better to make a patch for each change separately ?)

Yes, I would say so too.

But after a week of using it, some things began to irritate me. Therefore these changes.
I actually did the modifications on my lunchbrake at work

Welcome to open source software

In the mean time, I've installed Cygwin and SVN at home. Unfortunately, my modified sourcecode is still on my computer at work...
So don't expect the patch(es) earlier than somewhere this week...

No problem. Working on Rockbox is a lot of fun, I hope you will continue to improve it.

Maybe you can come to IRC where most devs hang around: http://www.rockbox.org/irc/

[jakko]

I've downloaded the 20070514 version and the problem with the hold button has disappeared.... I don't understand why.

Anyway, I've posted two patches in the patch tracker.

1: The remote control stuff (see above)
2: The changed keymapping for the jpeg viewer.

These are my first patches, so I hope I followed the proper 'patch-etiquette'