Rockbox as an Application (Android, WebOS etc.)

[cheenachatze]

I tried the rasher build of Rockbox 540x960 2012-12-08 on my phone (4.3" screen 540x960 resolution, running ICS). The letters are so tiny that it's impossible to read. The only thing I could do is uninstall it. Is it possible to repair the font size? Thanks.

[[Saint]]

Is it possible to repair the font size?

Why yes, my inquisitive friend...it surely is! And here's how:

In the Rockbox Extras section in the wiki, I have an anti-aliased font pack available for download. Either extract the entire font pack to /sdcard, or extract individual fonts to /sdcard/rockbox/fonts.

May I additionally recommend that, if you do not require non-English or extensive unicode support, you use the (significantly smaller, and prettier) 'Ubuntu' font family from the font pack as opposed to the (massive, and rather hideous) 'GNU Unifont' font family.


If you want to make sure that your chosen font applies at the first boot, instead of having to apply it manually (or, if you want to make sure you're able to read the menus to be able to apply a new font manually), you may create a custom config file with this content:

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font:  /.rockbox/fonts/FONT_NAME.fnt

Where FONT_NAME.fnt == the exact name of the font you wish to use from the font pack, for instance:

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font:  /.rockbox/fonts/36 Ubuntu [Regular].fnt

(the . in .rockbox is important here, it will not match the actual path on hosted (application) targets, but don't worry about this)

Save this config file as a plain text file to "/sdcard/rockbox/config.cfg" and assuming 36 Ubuntu [Regular].fnt can be found in "/sdcard/rockbox/fonts/" this font will be used when you launch the application.


[Saint]

[nick_p]

Nearly no-one buys mp3 players these days, they all buy Smartphones - ~ 80% running Android.

Maybe the percentage of developers running Rockbox on Android is lower.

Edit: Ho hum, not sure why I'm replying to a post from a month ago.

[Falco98]

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.

This seems very similar to the issue I have running on my thunderbolt - except mine has nothing to do with Bluetooth, the issue is caused either when I turn the screen back on, or when I'm outside Rockbox and select back into it.  FWIW, as a workaround to having to FC rockbox, I've found I can put the player in "pause" mode from the WPS, then go back to my phone's home screen and wait for rockbox to "auto power off" (as if it were a portable player that's been paused).  It then exits and can be re-opened like new.  The problem is this halt is far too common to make it very usable on my device.  I wish someone who's far more familiar with the Android system and its innards could debug this a bit.

[LambdaCalculus]

Maybe the percentage of developers running Rockbox on Android is lower.

And the percentage of developers running webOS devices is even lower.

Nonetheless, I'd like to bring FS#12496 into the spotlight. I just landed a Palm Pre and a Palm Pixi (both webOS devices) for free, so I'm going to be coddling the patch into better shape and see if maybe we can push it in the right direction.

[jimzat]

What to I press to "generate a STOP" in order to bookmark?

I tired to long-press the pause button but when I did that no bookmark was generated.

Any ideas?

[a_b_c_d]

it seems like there's not much development going on regarding the android version, which is kind of hard to believe, because 4 years ago everyone used mp3 players, but nowadays everyone uses smartphones with Android, which is open source.

[kugel.]

Your help is welcome. We have very limited resources (also in terms of developers).

[Philip]

This seems very similar to the issue I have running on my thunderbolt - except mine has nothing to do with Bluetooth, the issue is caused either when I turn the screen back on, or when I'm outside Rockbox and select back into it.  FWIW, as a workaround to having to FC rockbox, I've found I can put the player in "pause" mode from the WPS, then go back to my phone's home screen and wait for rockbox to "auto power off" (as if it were a portable player that's been paused).  It then exits and can be re-opened like new.  The problem is this halt is far too common to make it very usable on my device.  I wish someone who's far more familiar with the Android system and its innards could debug this a bit.
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I have had this same issue on two phones now, LG 2x and Sony XZL on a wide variety of android versions, Froyo -> JellyBean. Is there anything I can do to help locate the source of the problem? Error traces?

Would someone look into it if I sent them the LG 2x? I had planned to sell it but if someone will use it for rockbox development they are welcome to it, I have been using rockbox since the H340 so figure its time to give something back

[LambdaCalculus]

This seems very similar to the issue I have running on my thunderbolt - except mine has nothing to do with Bluetooth, the issue is caused either when I turn the screen back on, or when I'm outside Rockbox and select back into it.  FWIW, as a workaround to having to FC rockbox, I've found I can put the player in "pause" mode from the WPS, then go back to my phone's home screen and wait for rockbox to "auto power off" (as if it were a portable player that's been paused).  It then exits and can be re-opened like new.  The problem is this halt is far too common to make it very usable on my device.  I wish someone who's far more familiar with the Android system and its innards could debug this a bit.

I have had this same issue on two phones now, LG 2x and Sony XZL on a wide variety of android versions, Froyo -> JellyBean. Is there anything I can do to help locate the source of the problem? Error traces?

Would someone look into it if I sent them the LG 2x? I had planned to sell it but if someone will use it for rockbox development they are welcome to it, I have been using rockbox since the H340 so figure its time to give something back

So, if I'm reading this correctly:

1) You pause audio via the WPS on your 2x, go back to the home screen, and it automatically stops the app itself? I have a T-Mobile G2X (same phone with tiny tweaks) running CyanogenMod 10, but have never encountered this issue. What version of Android is yours running?

If you are interested, you can send me the phone and I can compare results from mine as well. PM me for more details.

[Philip]

I have only noticed the first problem mentioned.

Start playing music -> lock screen -> unlock screen -> rockbox is unresponsive (black screen only, still playing music).

I think i have CM10.1 on the 2x at the moment but have had the same problem on a lot of different roms. I will try a CM 10 rom and report.

Do you really not have this issue?
can you share your rockbox config files / settings / themes / fonts. I get the feeling something strange is going on with my rockbox setup if it causes this issue on two of my phones yet works for you on the very similar G2x...

Is rockbox installed on internal memory / sd card?

[solarsea]

I can confirm the suspend issue, where rockbox is not-responding but still playing.
Tested on a 4.0.3 tablet using apk from 2013-04-20.

[kugel.]

I know about this problem but I'm not able to reproduce it, it only happens rarely (on my phone, anyway) so it's really difficult to tell what the problem is or even fix it.

[musta susi]

I know about this problem but I'm not able to reproduce it, it only happens rarely (on my phone, anyway) so it's really difficult to tell what the problem is or even fix it.

I can confirm spontaneous suspensions on my device too. When a song is changed in queue (automatically, not sure if manually by user triggers this), number of lock\wake screen times can be vary. A way I can produce this issue for sure is after a song is automatically changed --> lock screen then wake up --> go to menu and try to edit\rename\delete an item [practically anything the makes an Android dialogue box to pop up]. However Rockbox responds back again when [now playing] is finished.

*This issue doesn't occur in older versions of Rockbox, back to svn r28520 build for example.
I'm using Galaxy Note II, changed roms too often either custom and officials.

[TheCrash]

Is there any chance to set manual RockBox <HOME> directory?
My smartphone have crazy structure of mount points. I don't have /sdcard/ directory, but /storage/sdcard1/. I can't save playlists and create a database.