Creative ZEN

[chrisjj]

I guess here since this is a crucial issue which is blocking the port. Apparently ChronoSphere and I don't suffer from the black screen issue with this new bootloader so it would be helpful if you could test on your devices and report. Make sure to use the latest build (always we had a problem with the website this night so I'm not sure they were actually built).

Is the latest built build suitable?

[pamaury]

Your quote is useless, it's doesn't tell when issue you are talking about about. As far as I know the only issue left with the port is screen slight flickering on cpu boost, which is really minor. Also nobody has benched OF versus Rockbox on battery life.

[chrisjj]

Your quote is useless, it's doesn't tell when issue you are talking about about.

I'm talking about the issue you describe in that quote as 'the black screen issue' . I can't find a FS entry for it.

As far as I know the only issue left with the port is screen slight flickering on cpu boost

I'd thought the following open issues were still open:

FS#12917 - [ZEN/ZEN X-Fi] LCD problems
FS#12918 - [ZEN/ZEN X-Fi] Crash after USB unplug

but it is great to hear they are fixed. Thanks.

[chrisjj]

I installed on my device called ZEN JOE (4Gb) following http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CreativeZENPort , using firmware https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgqvrwr4qb3tb8u/firmware-zen.nk and RB http://download.rockbox.org/daily/creativezen/rockbox-creativezen-20140720.zip .

Note: the .nk file is about 250x the size the last beta I used.

When I followed:

* Power off your device
* Plug the USB cable and wait for the Rockbox bootloader to show up and enter USB bootloader mode

I got a white screen on the device.

* The device should appear be detect as Mass Storage device in your host.

It didn't. This is Win 7.  So I repeated, and then it was detected. The screen has coloured dots.

When RB booted, it gave Data abort at 6004D60C.

I deleted the non-RB files (music). Same fail. I reformatted ( http://i.imgur.com/Dyoqpzt.png ) and recopied RB. Same fail.

Any ideas?

On a different unit, ZEN G (8Gb) , there are no coloured dots and RB runs fine. Except the start-up BSoD issue remains. As previously reported, about one in five RB start-ups fails with a BSoD requiring reset.

[giogio]

Is it possible to make the "option" button (top right)  as context menu option?
I find it very uneasy to use long press on central button to access this menu and hope to see this little improvement soon
=)

[varogami]

I have 2 bugs:
1) when I plug usb with Zen power down begin with "charging status: charging" then "charging status: topoffng" and finally "charging status: disable". On "charging status: disable" discharging the Zen
2) on Database->History->Most Played. I get "dir buffer is full"

[pamaury]

Hi, about 1), does it happen when the battery is fully charged or always ? It looks like 2) is more likely a database bug which unfornately is common because the database is quite unmaintained.

[varogami]

Hi, about 1), does it happen when the battery is fully charged or always ? It looks like 2) is more likely a database bug which unfornately is common because the database is quite unmaintained.

1) after the battery is fully charged but my battery is a little broke, full is 84% and sometimes I get wrong percentage.
The values sometimes not are linear, when the zen is fully charged oscillate on 83%/84% and other little bug for old battery I think
2) ok

[pamaury]

Discharge after full charge is a known bug. I will eventually squash it out...

[jln]

hi

http://sh.one.pl/rockbox-zen-mpg-black-lines.jpg

is mpg playback black interlace lines known issue? - the way in fact video is 320x120 (half of lines invisible black) - on photo elephant movie (320x240) from rockbox web.
(this one. http://download.rockbox.org/mpeg/elephantsdream-q6-320x240-830kbps.mpg)

the bottom OSD is displayed corectly, so it looks as it comes at decoding layer?
(lcd works fine anywhere else, manu, games)

any video I try never works correctly.

[pamaury]

Hi,
to be honest I have never tried to play a video, so it is possible that the YUV blitting function is broken and no one noticed ^^
I'll try it on mine to check.

[natanelho]

i have the creative zen and i thought to rockbox it. are there still bugs in this port? can i get the OF back if RB wont work?

[pamaury]

Yes you can always install the OF back, and yes there are a few bugs left, mainly one: sometimes the device will crash and display a white screen, some people have it, some don't.

[natanelho]

are there "deadly bugs"?

[pamaury]

I don't know what you mean by deadly, it will not kill your device if that's the question, you'll need to reset it though. Like I said, it's very dependent on the device, on my device I get one white screen every week perhaps, some seem to get it every hour. I don't know how to fix that bug for the moment.