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H300 hex file downloaded as H100

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KirkbyGC:
Hi all, I've just got a H340 and wanted to put Rockbox on it like my 120; the only problem is the 300 series m hex file downloads (every one I've found) come up as H100 series ones when the Utility gets to the stage of asking for it.
I searched this forum and found a similar post, the reply was don't worry about it, it's a bug. So I continued with the install, and all seemed to go well.
The issue I have now is the player still loads into Iriver OS. Is there something I need to do?
Thanks for any replies
Kirkby

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: KirkbyGC on April 25, 2010, 04:09:53 AM ---the only problem is the 300 series m hex file downloads (every one I've found) come up as H100 series ones when the Utility gets to the stage of asking for it.
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What exactly do you mean by this? I'm not sure if I got your problem correctly, but if there's a bug in Rockbox Utility it should get fixed :)


--- Quote ---The issue I have now is the player still loads into Iriver OS. Is there something I need to do?

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The H300 series sometimes needs to get flashed two times before it works. No idea why this happens but it's a known issue. I assume patching the hex file using Rockbox Utility worked (and reported success)?

KirkbyGC:
Thanks for the reply, -the Utility programme reported that the downloaded .hex file was for a 100 series, when it was a 300 series file. I continues with the install anyway and it seemed OK.
What do you mean "flashed" more than once? -Sorry I'm new to this! Should I uninstall and try again?
Thanks

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: KirkbyGC on April 25, 2010, 04:48:34 AM ---Thanks for the reply, -the Utility programme reported that the downloaded .hex file was for a 100 series, when it was a 300 series file. I continues with the install anyway and it seemed OK.

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I'll try to give that a look later. Which hex file did you use?


--- Quote ---What do you mean "flashed" more than once? -Sorry I'm new to this! Should I uninstall and try again?

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The bootloader installation on the H300 requires flashing the firmware file. That is, the hex file has to get modified (which is done by Rockbox Utility), placed on the player with the correct file name (also done by Rockbox Utility) and afterwards flashed to the players builtin flash memory the player is booting from. The player does not boot from disk, so the original firmware can work even on a player without a disk (it won't find any music to play, though, so doing so is somewhat useless). Rockbox needs to follow this procedure, which means that at least the bootloader has to run from that flash memory. For easy upgrading (and as it's the usual way on all other players) only the bootloader runs from that flash memory, everything else is loaded from disk. This is a major difference to the original firmware, though it makes no real difference for using the player, it's just a technical difference.

Flashing has to be done using the firmware upgrade functionality of the original firmware. Rockbox Utility should tell you about that step. However, there are cases known where this flashing procedure had to be done twice before it worked.

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