Rockbox as an Application (Android, WebOS etc.)

[nieroster]

If you want my opinion on rooted phones:
It's a security issue and you loose warranty.
While this may be uniportant to you it matters for others. Please respect this.

And when reading your experiences with rockbox and Android 4.0.3: It seems that rockbox is far from running seemlessly under Android 4.

[p0izn]

Rasher , please make Terminus font by default , because Helvetica doesnt support cyrrilic symbols and it's hard for new users to go to the font chooser guiding only by icons and they have to edit cfg before starting player.  
Sound balance doesnt work (9june12 build) , but you may be know it . CM9 , 4.0.4 
Thank you for your work, Rasher
 PowerAMP Rockbox!

[lefko]

I am having a severe problem with bluetooth on my atrix and motorola HD10.  More often then not when I turn on my bluetooth headset the software hangs.  I think I can get it to happen almost 100% of the time by starting rockbox, playing a file, pausing/stopping a file then connecting bluetooth.  After that the play screen stays stuck at where it was and I can never get it to start unless I force a close of the app.

The icon stays up when I go to "home" whereas when it is running properly it only stays up if rockbox is playing a file.  I suspect it has something to do with the interaction of pause, loosing headphone connection, and idle time, then not reconnecting when bluetooth starts up again, but that is just conjecture. 

I get the same issue on my Toshiba Thrive.  I've also found that if I disconnect from bluetooth I get the same issue as well.  What I currently do is simply kill the Rockbox process before I connect or disconnect to/from my car's bluetooth connection (I have a shortcut to the Manage Applications screen and I leave it pointed at Rockbox so I can quickly kill the proces when I need to).

The problem with this workaround, besides being very annoying, is that you loose the bookmark information if you force a stop.  With an hour and a half program this is an issue.
Post Merge: June 22, 2012, 10:32:14 AMI am also having a problem that appears to be happening more and more.  Probably the last 4 months, that while playing, when coming out of sleep and unlocking my atrix the rockbox screen is blank, like the UI is wedged.  I can get to home and run anything else, but I can not shut off rockbox.  I have to force a stop. When I force a stop, as posted above I loose the bookmark info and have no way of telling where I was in the program. 

[LivArt]

Today I tried Rockbox on my Galaxy Spica with Froyo and I'm not so happy as I was with rb on clip:
1. I really miss button Exit.
2. The status bar is very hard to read because it's on top. I think it will be better if it could be some pixels down or if it could be changable with system status bar.
3. There aren't any skins for hvga (320x480) resolution, only default one.
4. Is there way to set default folder for my library (scanning media only in this folder and subfolders)?
 

[[Saint]]

Today I tried Rockbox on my Galaxy Spica with Froyo and I'm not so happy as I was with rb on clip:
1. I really miss button Exit.

The way Android works, it is totally irrelevant and needless.

3. There aren't any skins for hvga (320x480) resolution, only default one.

As a side note, I have been working on greatly improving the default theme

4. Is there way to set default folder for my library (scanning media only in this folder and subfolders)?

Presently, only if you're rooted.

You can simply place a database.ignore file in /, and then place a database.unignore file in the directories you want scanned. If there is a folder you don't want scanned inside one that you do want scanned, hit that with a database.ignore file also.

It isn't exactly elegant, but, it works.



[Saint]

[dforionstar]

I'm a long term user of Rockbox on Sansa Fuze v.2 and very pleased to be able to use it on my Android device ( Samsung i9000 - Galaxy S). I realize Rockbox is not officially available as an apk, but I am using it now thanks to Rasher's daily builds of Rockbox for Android.

Unfortunately I cannot get the shortcuts or WPS button figured out and don't think it is working properly.  When I press on the WPS screen, then press the big "Q" button, I see three "WPS Hotkey" labels but cannot get any functionality out of them. I can change the labels but still no functionality. All I want is to have quick access to pitch control, and Bass/Treble or Sound Settings. Any help is appreciated!

Thanks to all who contributed to RB4A!  

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Device: Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000 (Rooted, of course!)
ROM: Stock Samsung (XWJW6) 2.3.6 Gingerbread
Kernel: Semaphore 2.74

[kugel.]

You should see the so-called quickscreen, with (by default) repeat and shuffle settings. You can put any setting (however not menus such as the Sound Settings) to the quickscreen.

[dforionstar]

This is still not clear to me. The items on the QuickScreen are the same as Shortcuts? Yes/No?

Because if Yes, I have already changed them in the Shortcuts submenu. They seem the same as QuickScreen. Whether I change these items on QuickScreen or under Shortcuts, there is still no functionality. When pressing an item on QuickScreen, the item label changes to next item, but no functionality.

Please, Has anyone been able to get this working on their actual android device?

Thank you!

[davidsol]

I downloaded RB onto a Galaxy Note (gingerbread not ICS) phone last July and it worked pretty well although it didn't seem to bookmark as per my settings minor problem). Now for the last two weeks when I try to start it up I can't do anything, when I tap on and icon it does nothing. I have tired reinstalling previous builds but keep getting the same problem so presumably some app I have added to my phone is interfering as I haven't updated the operating system. I have added quite a few apps (though nothing musical) recently so difficult to remember which one might be interfering.

Does anyone have an idea of what I can do ? I have had RB on an Iriver for years and there's nothing better for playing music.

Any thoughts welcome.

[RowaN]

I am using Rockbox on my Galaxy S (Cyanogenmod10 nightly), and have been for many many months. The app crashes on me a lot - usually when I'm playing music, and I then click on another song from the file browser. The music doesn't stop but the screen goes black, is unresponsive, and a force close is required. So to reduce crashes, I use the workaround of longpressing songs, playlist, add next. Not a great workaround but beggars can't be choosy. It would be great if someone could identify the cause of this bug.

Update: something that usually works to revive the app when its stuck on a black screen is to press the home button, then press the pause button on the widget. Then click the song name in the widget to bring Rockbox back to life.

[johnb]

Hi,

can anyone point me to some documentation on the 'grid mode' for the touchscreen, please?
Searching the web I found out that it is supposed to be a 3x3 grid, but I haven't found out the bindings for those grid points and the variants like long-press, etc.

Thanks!
johnb

[rlowens]

Any chance someone has a Windows emu build of this? I'm looking for the best version of Android for Windows (because I love the bookmarking and configurability).

[saratoga]

Any chance someone has a Windows emu build of this? I'm looking for the best version of Android for Windows (because I love the bookmarking and configurability).

Do you mean a simulator built for windows?  You can get those here:  http://rasher.dk/rockbox/simulator/

Although they don't have much to do with Android.

[Baba-Jii]

As much as I'd like to use Rockbox as my primary player on my 4.04 Galaxy S2 - it's just way too unstable. I've moved over to using MortPlayer Audio Books. Couldn't be happier. MortPlayer's bookmarking feature is far more advanced than Rockbox too! 

[a_b_c_d]

As much as I'd like to use Rockbox as my primary player on my 4.04 Galaxy S2 - it's just way too unstable. I've moved over to using MortPlayer Audio Books. Couldn't be happier. MortPlayer's bookmarking feature is far more advanced than Rockbox too!  

The same applies to me, except I chose tinyPlayer. It's a pity that those crashing bugs are around for years and aren't getting fixed. Nearly no-one buys mp3 players these days, they all buy Smartphones - ~ 80% running Android.