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Rockbox USB - A Long Journey

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Chronon:
In case people aren't aware, rasher has posted test builds for affected targets here: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=20664.0

ThaCrip:

--- Quote from: Llorean on February 22, 2009, 02:08:36 AM ---As the changelog says, it's not enabled yet, so no in the newest builds it does not have full USB support. It's there, but it's basically "not turned on yet." There's more or less one last round of tests to go, but they depend on specific hardware.

We'd like to have USB in 3.2,  but there's no guarantee either way and we can't really make predictions. It's impossible to predict whether something unexpected will turn up, and no amount of testing will every guarantee anything, just allow us to say things with a reasonable degree of confidence.

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yeah i know no one can give guarantee's, but what i meant which im sure you already knew was with a couple weeks of moderate testing i think would be enough to get a pretty good idea on the overall reliability of the USB support if nothing turns up and then it could be included with v3.2.

but thanks for the information ;)

p.s. assuming nothing turns up and the USB is turned on for v3.2.... would that mean that you could change the bootloader for the e200 series so that instead of it booting the original Sansa firmware when you plug it into the USB port by default which the e200 does when the USB cable is connected when the power is off on e200, it could be changed so that it will boot directly into the Rockbox firmware? (because since charging works and IF the USB works there would be no real need for the original Sansa firmware anymore, right?)

just curious as to your thoughts on that and everyone else etc.

Llorean:
As I said, yes, we'd like to have USB in 3.2. Once it's in, there should be no reason for automatic reboots into the original firmware but there's no guarantee updated bootloaders will happen immediately (and may come before or after 3.2 as they aren't necessarily related to the release).

dreamlayers:
Badger, thanks for the blog post.  I see you also have other interesting Rockbox-related posts.

I really like the idea of enabling Rockbox USB by default in 3.2.  However, using the hard drive a lot while not charging over USB (see FS#8802) may be a bad idea because the battery can drain quite quickly.  The situation is probably better on flash-based devices.

I use a USB and FireWire cable (like some of these on Amazon) and connect one end to a FireWire charger and the other end to USB for data.  However, I'm using this because the USB charging functionality of my iPod is broken (I got it that way) and I'm not 100% sure that plugging in both USB and FireWire is ok otherwise.

LambdaCalculus:
I wouldn't imagine it to be good to plug in both at once. You could possibly blow something out on the mainboard that way, leaving you with a useless iPod (unless you know how to fix it, of course).

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