Ingenic Jz4740/Jz4732 players

[sinless]

mcuelenaere:
sorry for my poor english and computer skills...
I am really a Rockbox fans...I used to have many players can run RB..But two months ago a thief broken into my house and took all of them(a ipod video 30g,ipod nano 1st gen 1g,ipod mini 2nd gen 8GB CF mod and a ipod color- -||...)After that,I bought four players,ipod classic 80G,ipod nano 4gen 8G,ipod nano 2gen,and a VX777.
Now..only VX777 can run RB,but i don't know anything about linux and .c I don't know how to port RB to VX777...
oh ...please tell me how to make VX777 dual boot...thanks
And ..I can't download things from mediafire...because of my ISP...

[tspoon]

I am noticing on my VX747 that the WPS touchscreen codes do not seem to work. This is on the Cabbie theme and on my own wps. Any touchscreen action defined in the wps file do nothing, while the default touchscreen behaviour seems to continue, even on the default wps.
 The build I am using is 20th August 09.

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to mention this as the problem may not be specific to the Onda units


 p.s. if you test a %Tl tag within a viewport, does it only return true if the press is within the viewport?

[mcuelenaere]

I am noticing on my VX747 that the WPS touchscreen codes do not seem to work. This is on the Cabbie theme and on my own wps. Any touchscreen action defined in the wps file do nothing, while the default touchscreen behaviour seems to continue, even on the default wps.
 The build I am using is 20th August 09.

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to mention this as the problem may not be specific to the Onda units

You are sure that you're not in grid mode? What revision are you using? Could you try the newest one?

p.s. if you test a %Tl tag within a viewport, does it only return true if the press is within the viewport?

I don't know, try asking in the WPS subforum.

[tspoon]

Ah i did not realise the difference between the two modes, sorry for these questions i will take them to the wps forum. thanks again

[sinless]

When i open the usbtool.it recognized my vx777,but it can't install the bootloader[error sending control message]...
I wonder somebody can help me to solve this problem..Thanks:)

[tspoon]

Hi there, one further thing I've noticed, I'm not sure if the problem is only with this model (VX747). When you connect the player using the USB cable, it shows in windows explorer as a removable drive, but only if the player was already switched on. If you plug it in while off, the player turns on and shows the USB screen, but does not show in windows. Unplugging and replugging it is enough to make it then show.

[sinless]

..I also have a question....Rockbox need to use the buttom inside vx777(as a menu buttom?)...It means that we only can use RB after the vx777 takes apart?

[mcuelenaere]

Hi there, one further thing I've noticed, I'm not sure if the problem is only with this model (VX747). When you connect the player using the USB cable, it shows in windows explorer as a removable drive, but only if the player was already switched on. If you plug it in while off, the player turns on and shows the USB screen, but does not show in windows. Unplugging and replugging it is enough to make it then show.

Hmm, I don't have that behaviour in Linux; perhaps I should try Windows too. What revision is this?

..I also have a question....Rockbox need to use the buttom inside vx777(as a menu buttom?)...It means that we only can use RB after the vx777 takes apart?

No, it doesn't need it (unless you want to use USB boot).
If you flash Rockbox (+ dual boot) to your device, you should never even have to open up your device (there's a bug atm though which won't let you access the boot menu on the VX777 that I'm going to address soon).

[tspoon]

Hmm, I don't have that behaviour in Linux; perhaps I should try Windows too. What revision is this?

My windows version is XP Version 2002 service pack 3
Rock box version is : r22596-090901



Also I am consistently getting two other problems, when I select 'next track' just after starting playback from a bookmark or the file browser. Rockbox crashes and the screen says:

*PANIC*
Exception occured: TLB Exception (Load or Ifetch)v [0x0005CB54] at 0x8003DD0C (tack at 0x801986B4)

Another time it said 'Address' Error instead of 'TLB Exception'. A third time it said 'Reserved Instruction'. But mostly it is  'Load or Ifetch'. And always after pressing for 'Next Track' shortly after the original track starts playing.

[jasio]

I have installed Rockbox on my VX777 just before going away on holidays. I used it for 2 weeks and it works pretty well already. I'm working on a WPS that is more adapted to the complete lack of buttons.

There are a few things that I would appreciate help with:

- the bottom of the touch screen behaves strangely (about 20 or 30 pixels): in most menus touching the bottom area returns to the main menu; in the WPS nothing happens which is annoying as I have placed most of the controls in the lower part of the screen.

- even with a fairly large font the menus are too difficult to use. How can I add spacing between each line? Either by creating a font with additional spacing or by patching (can you point me to the right place in the code?)

- I don't think that it's possible yet but I would really like to be able to display a viewport as an action of a %T tag. That would make volume control so much easier: press the volume button on screen and a large volume slider would be displayed.

I'll update if I make any progress...

[Giova]

I've just made a couple of scans of VX747 and VX777 players.

[526459330q]

please forgive my poor English
  I'm an mp3 fans from China.And I want to turn to  you :I cannot install RB into my VX777.I downloaded the RB double boot firmware for 777.But refreshing my 777,I cannot boot from neither OF  nor RB .Once I boot from RB the screen cannot appear anything but some flower.i had put .rockbox and the old ccpmp.bin into the Sd card which is a fat32 partition.And I had follow the steps .Is that anything wrong with my firmware?
so I do hope you can teach me how I can run RB on my 777.I had seen some one can run it ！！Now I sent you the firmware I used  :http://d.namipan.com/d/503e2beb9a167702c9edb3c2406848b7b3b869140490d400  By the way ,can you teach me how to com pile bootloader ,which will generate afile ccpmp.bin for 777
Thanks very much .happy new year
Or can you make a double boot firmware for me  My email is :caihaoting520@qq.com

[mcuelenaere]

please forgive my poor English
  I'm an mp3 fans from China.And I want to turn to  you :I cannot install RB into my VX777.I downloaded the RB double boot firmware for 777.But refreshing my 777,I cannot boot from neither OF  nor RB .

What happens when you boot while holding the power down button (this should give you the bootloader menu)?

If your player hangs, you're going to need to press the reset button.

Also see the wiki for recovering to the OF (on the VX777, the reset button is *inside* the player so you'll need to open it up).

[526459330q]

i had burn to the OF.what i want to know is how i can install RB?

[mcuelenaere]

i had burn to the OF.what i want to know is how i can install RB?

I haven't tested the install instructions on a VX777 myself, but others seem to have got it working. If you can't follow the instructions on the wiki, I'm afraid you won't be able to use Rockbox (yet). Remember, this is still a port in *development*.

Rockbox Utility has an installation method for VX747/VX777, but that still requires you to compile the bootloader yourself (this should be distributed by the build system eventually).