rockbox on fuze v2 not even nearby stable until now

[bomano]

hi everbody,

i installed rockbox on my fuze v2 yesterday with rockboy-utility because i read some entries
in this forum its quite stable and the only bugs are just some little things.
this is not true. today i wanted to start my player and it got stuck showing
the bootscreen. nothing happened, i had to push the on/off-switch 30 seconds,
tried to start it again but the same error everytime. so i can not recommend to install
rockbox on sansa fuze v2 until its officially stable. dont listen to some
guys saying its stable when its obviously not.

[BigPapi]

I think you are the minority here......almost everyone I've seen using rockbox on their V2 is enjoying it. You may have stumbled upon a daily build with a bug, but that does not make them all unstable.

[bomano]

i used the official release not some untested builds. i´ll give it at try again by reinstalling and lots of testing but this big problem after just one day was very disappointing.

[saratoga]

i used the official release not some untested builds.

Theres no official release, just SVN builds, some of which are more stable then others.

That said, your problem sounds a lot like file system corruption, so you may want to check your disk for errors before using it again.

[bomano]

ok, now 2nd time install - 3rd boot: failure. using latest version
rockbox with error-message: data abort at 3080099c
                                       fsr 0x8
                                       (domain 0, fault 8 )
                                       adress 0x50bc84b0

whats the problem? never had any problems with OF.

[SpawnHyuuga]

I'll be the next to say, that he may not be the only one having problems - for awhile I thought maybe I'd bricked my Fuze v2, but I was able to get it running again. I'm still running into some minor problems with playback having a memory crash, and some skins also have the same problem.

[Rydian]

I've been using rockbox on my v2 Fuze for a while as well.  Sometimes when upgrading it I hit a version that's terribly unstable and need to revert to a version a few points older.  28031 is what's currently installed and it's working fine for me.

[evilnick]

It's still listed in Unstable Ports on the Rockbox front page. Therefore it is still officially considered unstable.

[rmzalbar]

I'm confused.

Are we talking about unstable, or unreliable?

"stable" in software development, especially open development like this, usually means that it stops changing, so it can be used as a known point for branching off new builds with untested features.

Unreliable means it has issues which may produce undesired operation.

It is perfectly possible for a build to be stable AND unreliable, or vice versa.

I want to put this on my Fuze V2, but I'm not sure which, if any, builds are considered reliable, yet..

[saratoga]

I'm confused.

Are we talking about unstable, or unreliable?

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TargetStatus#Current_status_of_supported_targ

"stable" in software development, especially open development like this, usually means that it stops changing, so it can be used as a known point for branching off new builds with untested features.

We don't ever stop changing rockbox builds and never will as long as the project is alive.