Loss of configuration

[LAfant]

I just have a quick question, as I want to know what's the cause of my problem.

Yesterday I have updated to the recent build (h120) and after that every time I restared my settings (e.g. Theme settings) were set back to the orignal values. This occured about 5 or 6 times until my settings remained after restarting.
Does anybody have a clue what the reason for this is?

Thanks in advance.

[LAfant]

I'm still having the same problem, sometimes the settings are saved and remain, and sometimes they get lost. Also I experienced some problems with mp3 tags not being displayed correctly and sometimes my wps showed the wrong file format, which never happened before.

[nls]

check your disk for corruptíon

[baobab68]

LaFant - this happened to me some weeks ago, and in the end, I fixed it by carefully re-installing the latest build.

I am pretty sure what happened to me was my own lack of care in installing the build, and perhaps some files were left behind from the previous build. I had exactly the same symptoms as you: failure to save settings.

I always go through each folder under .rockbox now when installing new builds, and delete what's already there, if applicable.

Folders I commonly don't have to touch are Themes, WPS and Fonts, which are pretty constant across builds.

I hope this helps.

Jason

[LAfant]

I just overwrote the .rockbox folder, as I always did. Never experienced such problems before.
I just checked, problem still appears. When I come back from work I will completely remove the directory and install again. Still strange somehow I thing.

[LAfant]

Just wanted to note, that baobab68's suggestion did solve the problem, in case any other users have this issue.

[Phebee]

I'm also having this problem. Every time I restart it goes back to the simple back and white settings. I've been using rockbox for over a year and haven't had a problem until recently.

[pixelma]

Maybe your config.cfg (where the current settings get stored) got corrupted. I would try to save settings manually (through "manage settings"), check the disk for file system errors, delete the config.cfg file in the .rockbox directory. On next startup load your personal settings file and the config.cfg should then be recreated on next shutdown or disk spinup.

Hopefully this fixes your problem - I don't think it is necessary to delete the complete .rockbox folder and reinstall it.