iRiver H340 keeps forgetting settings...

[beefy]

Hi everyone!

I have been running Rockbox on my iRiver H340 for a long time without any problems. Recently, my device keeps forgetting its settings, tho.

I once turned it on and the colors where black on white - while I had them set to be white on black. I went through the settings and saw that everything had been reset. I put everything back to how I want it, and the next time I booted up everything was reset again.

Now it's always like that. No matter what I do, my iRiver keeps forgetting the settings. The only thing that it remembers is the song that is playing at the time of shutdown.

What could the problem be? Is there a battery inside that could be empty (and can be exchanged?!) or could it be a software problem?

Thanks for any hints,
Cheers
  beefy

[bascule]

Probably your default config.cfg file has become corrupted. Delete that file (in /.rockbox) and try again.

[beefy]

Thanks for your idea, but it didn't work. Deleted config.cfg, changed display background color to blue, shut down, restarted, color was back to black and white again.

[bascule]

Did Rockbox automatically write another config file after that experiment? If so, paste it here and I'll have a look

[pixelma]

Also, what build are you running (check the revision number at boot or in System > Version)? I think there was a bug with saving settings a week or two ago.

[beefy]

The version is r12955-070329, but that hasn't changed in months - the problem with the forgotten settings emerged without any software changes...

Here's the newly created config file:

# .cfg file created by rockbox
r12955-070329 -
http://www.rockbox.org

show files: all

Nothing too special there... The "show files: all" comes from me, cause I don't have a USB-cable with me right now and had to modify that setting in order to navigate to the rockbox directory.

[bascule]

Hmmm, mysterious.

If the config files shows your recent Show Files change, why would it not save the others, also?

The only thing I can suggest at the moment is the following steps:

Start the player
Reset all settings (Settings > Manage Settings > Reset Settings)
Properly shutdown the player
Start the player and check that it is still at defaults (play a file and check the WPS)
Change one obvious setting
Properly shutdown the player
Start the player and check that the setting has stuck

Post the config file contents again. I know all the above is obvious if you are a long time user, but something weird is going on.

[bluebrother]

just as an idea, maybe there is something wrong with the filesystem? chkdsk /f might help (and if not it won't harm your player, so it's safe to simply try it)

[beefy]

Woohoo it seems to be ok again!

I think this was a good idea:

Reset all settings (Settings > Manage Settings > Reset Settings)
Properly shutdown the player

Well, thanks for your help guys! I'll come back if the problem comes back.

And I will also check the harddisk when I'm home, so that I can maybe see where the error came from in the first place... Cause I didn't change anything when it suddenly happened for the first time.

Thanks, anyway! Have a nice day

[zone22]

Go ahead in the defragment it while you're at it.