H300 rockbox firmware not finished

[lwizard]

Hi.
I love your work for my iriver h340.
I only whish someone could finish the h300 firmware to support charging and booting from usb or power adapter without booting the original firmware.
In fact I use it in my car and it would be nice if I can leave it plugged to power so that turning on the car also turn on and resume iriver and turning off the car turn off iriver (or pause it).

Since actually power adapter make the original firmware star, i can't do that.

Thanks a lot for your work!!!

[lwizard]

is there anyone still working on iriver hardware?
even if charging routine is not perfect, why not compiling a firmware for iriver with charging functionfor those who wants it?

I really need rockbox to start when my car power on the iriver..

Thanks a lot for your support!

[Llorean]

Rockbox is a community effort. The only reason this hasn't happened is because members of the community, like you, haven't put in the effort necessary to make sure the code is good and get it included.

[lwizard]

I know it!

I'm not a programmer and i'm not able to contribute to the project.

I can only suggest ideas and give feedback like i did.

I'm not pretending anything, I only love your work and i think is a pety that iriver bootloader is no longer supported because iriver + rockbox is the best sounding  and more versatile player I ever had!

Thank you a lot for your work!

I really whish i could code by my self and improve the bootloader, but is beyond my capabilities!

[Llorean]

There are books. All it takes is time.

[bluebrother]

I'm not pretending anything, I only love your work and i think is a pety that iriver bootloader is no longer supported

Who says that the Iriver bootloader isn't supported anymore? Only the devs familiar with it not having time to work on it doesn't mean it's not supported. In fact, we do support installing the bootloader.

even if charging routine is not perfect, why not compiling a firmware for iriver with charging functionfor those who wants it?

Because the Iriver players (except the H10), in contrast to most other players, can be bricked by installing a broken bootloader. Thus those bootloaders require much more and much extensive testing before they can get released. A bricked h100 / h300 can only get revived using special hardware (and by physically opening it up), so even for most developers bricking such a player would be a problem.

And by the way, no software project is ever finished.

[lwizard]

ok.
Thanks for you answers!

I have installed the latest firmware built whith charging patch and it seems to work, even if who had installed such firmware reports occasional semibrick during booting which can be resolved by connecting the iriver to PC.

I'll test it for establishing if such bug occours to me, too.