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Creative ZEN
chrisjj:
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--- Quote from: MRJOE8010 ---display issues though, on all screens the background is displaying vertical lines in dim colored dots. The WPS now playing screen is not formatted, all the info is there but the theme (CabbieV2) is not applied. Alternate fonts and some themes seem to work well on the menu screen but even applying failsafe or default icons
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I'm using adc5033-131121 version on a 4GB machine. I tried 131119 initially and reflashed and reformatted to see if it was a bad install but same exact results.
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MRJ, In case it helps: I found a 4Gb ZEN, loaded 131119 (and the unversioned but contemporaneous firmware_zen.nk), and tried those features and various others. I got no crashes. Apart from the known LCD standby exit corruption, the only run-time issue I found upon unplugging the USB after uploading RB and audio, is RB said: "Error accessing playlist control file." I updated to 131121 and found no issues.
I wonder if your problems arise from faulty formatting. Here there is still an issue with Format. On the above test, as before, Disk Management FAT Format reported failure, so then I did an Explorer FAT32 Quick Format, which reported success http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/2905/rtti.png . Perhaps it is worth you trying the later firmware_zen.nk (V1Beta2_fb8faa10) since Amaury reported that fixes http://git.rockbox.org/?p=rockbox.git;a=commit;h=bb8dd053434cbe9c98fe5b9a1095d00ebafb7b61 a problem related to formatting, albeit not one that TMK is known your cause crashes.
pamaury:
I updated the bootloader to HEAD, this way it now contains the fix for improper storage size detection. It is at the same address as before, cf wiki.
MRJOE8010:
ChrisJJ,
I took your advice and loaded latest firmware and reformatted, both FAT and FAT32, and tested with 131120 and 131121 builds on Windows 7. All versions had the same issues with background vertical dots and no formatting on the WPS screen. I also tried the new firmware and a fresh reformat with the 131121 build on an XP machine with the same result. I am willing to try any ideas you might have. Thanks for your help, I'm going to try going back to stock and I will try future updates.
chrisjj:
--- Quote from: pamaury on November 23, 2013, 09:48:27 AM ---I updated the bootloader to HEAD, this way it now contains the fix for improper storage size detection. It is at the same address as before, cf wiki.
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Thanks - got it. (FTR, from https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgqvrwr4qb3tb8u/firmware-zen.nk, dated 2013-11-23, showing on device as V1Beta2_fb8faa1.)
That solves the size problem http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,13462.msg221249.html#msg221249 on the 8Gb device. I.e. the formatted device is shown by Disk Management as 7.44 Gb and Explorer as "Capacity: 7,975,600,128 bytes 7.42 GB". Thanks!
But I see the format command failure remains. I.e. Disk Management says "The format did not complete successfully". The previous workaround (Explorer Quick Format) remains successful.
Also note that the instruction to be sure to format as FAT http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CreativeZENPort is not performable on the 8GB model where Format offers only FAT32.
chrisjj:
--- Quote from: MRJOE8010 on November 23, 2013, 08:58:30 PM ---I also tried the new firmware and a fresh reformat with the 131121 build on an XP machine with the same result.
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That's the very same recipe which works here. So I am baffled as to the different results. The only possibility I can see is some undefined behaviour, perhaps related to the failure of start-up to completely initialise the device, indicated to me by the fact that here some start-ups succeed and others fail, for no apparent reason. I'm trying to gather info on this for a report, and hopefully then it will be fixed, whereupon I suggest you try again. Sorry not to be of more help.
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