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[Saint]:

--- Quote from: monoid on October 31, 2012, 11:31:07 AM ---<snip>...I had the feeling it was finished and close to being issued 2 months ago, but nothing has happened since then...<snip>

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Fact of the matter is, as I'm sure you are at least partially aware, the developers work on what they want to work on when they want to work on it. The nature of this project allows you to contribute yourself if you feel that development is going slower than you would like it to.

Please don't read this as: "If you don't like it, go and do it yourself", but please do read it as "The maintainers of new ports are more often than not working largely alone, doing a job that has the potential to consume many hundreds of man hours, and those that would like to see a particular feature implemented or a particular bug squashed should seriously consider taking a crash course in C, setting up a development environment, checking out the source, and contributing to those areas themselves."


[Saint]

monoid:
I am sorry if it seemed that I am complaining.  :-[

I am very happy that someone took the tedious task to make Fuze+ usable when SanDisk didn't do the job. It is just perfect, as it is now. :)

I was just curious what happened, as it seemed to me, that it was prepared for release. I can live without recording ability, if it is not implemented at all...

xpmule:

--- Quote from: halonachos117 on October 22, 2012, 07:56:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: xpmule on October 21, 2012, 11:34:54 PM ---any of you notice strange charging behaviour ?
what i mean is i plug in charge mode starts.. i leave it for a while
and when i come back after a while it stopped and says connected.
and when i pull out the cord and check the battery level its only partly charged.
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I've noticed this, too. My player never charges past 96% or so. This behavior started appearing after Pamaury did some battery calibration (then I had problems with internal storage). The OF show 100%, so perhaps the battery need a little more calibration. I can't say about your player, though.

Also, you should try getting a portable battery charger. I have one from Duracell, and I tend to bring it whenever I think I will be away from my computer and will be listening to a lot of music. It's a bit more of a pain, but its cheaper than buying a new player. You should be able to get one form Amazon.

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notice the first sentence you quoted ?
and buddy we have been talking back and forth over at Sansa long before i came over here
so you already know my name lol
I brought this up because like everyone else is saying normal behaviour is normal
and what i'm seeing is *obviously NOT.
a) The charging behaviour is weird. (It doesn't get fully charged)
b) The charge doesn't last.. (even when device is off / as reported many times at Sansa forums)

so YES it's related.. think about it
or should i explain ?

halonachos117:

--- Quote from: xpmule on November 03, 2012, 10:30:17 AM ---so YES it's related.. think about it
or should i explain ?

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Not to seem rude, but please don't. At least not here. 8)

Once again, this is a SOFTWARE DEVOLOPEMENT THREAD. There's a hardware section of this forum you can use if you wish. If  you wish to permanently upgrade your battery, there's also a "Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox capable Players" thread with people who could help you with that. Otherwise, I guess you're out of luck. :'(

pamaury:
Hi all,
to reply to the few complains about battery life, I would like to state again that 1) the battery life will naturally decrease over time, this is not related to rockbox 2) rockbox on the fuze+ still lacks some power optimisations with explains the lesser lasting battery but we do our best to improve this.

On the good side, I would like to point out that I (hopefully) solved the audio pop on startup in the current HEAD so I would greatly appreciate feedback on this. I also made a RMAA test to compare the fuze+ OF with rockbox and the results can be seen here: http://amaury.pouly.free.fr/Images/Comparison.htm. The results are encouraging but there is a lot of distortion compared to the OF so I still need to improve this.

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