Sansa Fuze+

[halonachos117]

Wow... I just realized that this is the same bug report that "gama" reported on page 13! I even replied to that!

Sorry for reporting the same bug again.

[alienkid10]

Now that that's sorted out: it is normal to gray/white screen when I first push power for about .3 a second then go to the rockbox logo then proceed as normal? It happens since I install RB but not when booting OF.

[qiaozi]

The gray screen happens on mine as well, I have been looking at the LCD driver code to see what is causing it, I think it is an initialization value when first configuring the screen.

Also is anyone able to charge their battery? I can't get any charging even if I boot the OF.

[halonachos117]

I can charge the battery in the OF just fine. Perhaps your cord is damaged? Or perhaps you managed to break the part of your Fuze+ the cord plugs into? Try another cord and see if it works. If you are using a computer to charge, try another computer. The same goes for if you are using a USB charger.

Also, what OS are you running? More importantly do you have the Windows Media Player 10 or higher (assuming you have Windows)? If you have a older version of Windows Media Player, don't have Windows Media Player at all, or are not running Windows, you may need to change the default USB mode in the OF to MSC (Mass storage Class). A Windows OS with WMP 10 or higher will be necessary to use the other mode (MTP).

[jimmyjboy]

I had the "no charging" problem to for a wile to but then i realized you have to not only boot the OF you also have to hold the volume down button when you plug in the cable. 

[buckminster]

Now that that's sorted out: it is normal to gray/white screen when I first push power for about .3 a second then go to the rockbox logo then proceed as normal? It happens since I install RB but not when booting OF.

I'd be more concerned about other functionality (FM radio, SD card support, etc.) than this, but yes, I have it, too.

[halonachos117]

I had the "no charging" problem to for a wile to but then i realized you have to not only boot the OF you also have to hold the volume down button when you plug in the cable. 

Unless, of course you use a USB wall adapter, in which case just boot into the OF.

[pamaury]

Hello,
I know lots of you have been waiting long for this port but please do not spam this thread, it's about the Fuze+ development only. If you have bugs, please add them on the tracker (flyspray). Here are the known problems that do NOT need to be brought to my attention again, I'm well aware of them:

• SD card support: I'm working on it, it's nearly done
• FM Radio: I'm working on it, it's a mystery right now although I made some progress
• Battery life/charging: there is the code but it needs experiments, the charging code is not implemented yet
• Codecs not working: I confirmed this problem with at least MPC, apparently this is particular to this port
• Strange screen effects / white screen on boot: if the weird "CRT like" effects are still present, I have no idea on how to solve them, and as for the white screen on boot, I know why but that's clearly not a priority
• Recording: not implemented
• touchpad improvements: metaphys has contributed a lot here, I'm working an improved version, but that's not a priority since it's currently very usable

Thanks for your patience

[alienkid10]

Sorry Pamaury! I'll check on the CRT-like effects later today.
Pamaury if I ran a debug build would that help with getting the 2nd screen sorted? Let me know and I'll try and figure out how to compile one now that my compile set up is working.
CRT screen is GONE as of r31158 I don't know what changed but it's gone! EDIT: was gone after plugging USB then updated but power cycle brings it back.
BTW Thank you Pamaury and meta for doing this! I've been using meta's patch build then trunk right after it got implemented exclusively (except for charging) for over a week now with basically no problem except for me forgetting the radio isn't implemented. So THANK YOU both!
Meta: don't trust my sensi values right now I'm gonna keep using it and find my good ones.

[metaphys]

So just to be clear again:
Anything related to touchpad go there: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/12405
Anything related to playback issues (undefined instruction, data abort, file skipping) go there:  http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/12429
Any other bug has to be reported  here: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/
Any other question regarding rockbox in general goes on the forum (but not in this thread  )
Any info about the port's development (things you want to do, things you founded how to do, etc) come in this thread

[Rarog]

CRT screen is GONE as of r31158 I don't know what changed but it's gone! EDIT: was gone after plugging USB then updated but power cycle brings it back.

Hm... I can't seem to be able to reproduce the non-flickering mode, not by plugging in or out, not by updating to newer build. How exactly did you do it and are you able to reproduce it by yourself?

[alienkid10]

I haven't tried yet but I KNOW I saw it. If someone has the build 4 revisions after when meta's pacth hit trunk can you send me the .zip? (or is there a way to findout what revision you had on before the current one so I know exact r?) Plugin in/out doesn't work. Here is EXACTY what I did:
1 hour of listening to music in rockbox at 55 brightness.
Pluged in loaded new revision and a podcast
pluged out then hit select to yes update
it (soft?) rebooted and I had no lines. I let backlight fade out then made it come in and still nothing
I was using a custom background so thought it might have been tricking me so switched to the cabbie background still no lines switched to my background again then
went to now playing and then powered off and back on and was saddened to see lines.
Also I noticed it was (seemingly) darker without lines.

[Rarog]

So you need revision r31133 and r31137/r31138? I could provide you these.

My idea was to check the debug screen for voltage setting and compare it to the situation when the CRT lines are there.

EDIT:
And in any case it would be good if we hat a way to reproduce this case to see, what's causing and what's removing it.

EDIT2:
r31133 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NE8GSA20
r31138 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R36VD23T

[alienkid10]

did it again!
this time going to r31141

here are values without lines:
r31141
first screen:
480000
24000
24000
96000
480000
261818
130909
130909
24000
battery mv: 3872 jumping to something else for a millisecond but don't know what.
screen after battery:
VDDD: 1550
VDDA: 1750
VDDIO: 3300
VDDMEM: 2300
freg: 0
EDIT: All values appear the same on my player with lines

Here's how to do it:
plug in WHILE RB is booted up
drop new revision on
select YES to update or w/e it says (important part!!!)
lines are gone as long as power isn't offed

[Rarog]

Very strange... I think it should be diged into the code to see, what's done in a different way when doing a soft reboot.