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Sansa Fuze+
sdf5:
--- Quote from: sdf5 on December 24, 2013, 01:23:25 PM ---What I would like to see in the Fuze+ port is the ability to operate the player (that is, to go to the next/previous item, increase/decrease volume, start/stop playback) without the use of touchpad, only using the player's buttons. This would allow to put the player in the playback mode, lock the screen and then only use the player's buttons to operate it -- a useful functionality to have if you carry the player in your pocket.
Since the player has only three (3) buttons (Volume Up, Volume Down and On/Off) some creativity would be needed to implement the above. Perhaps it could be done the following way:
Volume Down pressed for less than 1 sec = go to the previous playback item
Volume Down pressed for more than 1 sec = decrease volume
Volume Up pressed less than 1 sec = go to the next playback item
Volume Up pressed more than 1 sec = increase volume
On/Off pressed for less than 1 sec while in playback mode = start/stop the playback
On/Off pressed for more than 1 sec while in playback mode = unlock the screen
On/Off pressed for less than 1 sec while NOT in playback mode = lock the screen
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Nobody thinks it's a good idea? The touchpad works pretty poor for me, it'd be nice to be able to avoid using it in the playback mode.
pamaury:
I'm sorry but I don't see the point of it. If you don't like the touchpad, why did you bought the Fuze+ in the first place ? With custom keymaps, I think it is possible to achieve something close to what you want but it will never make it to our codebase I'm afraid, at best you would need to write it yourself (maybe with some help) and compile your own version of Rockbox.
sdf5:
--- Quote from: pamaury on January 05, 2014, 06:10:10 AM --- If you don't like the touchpad, why did you bought the Fuze+ in the first place ?
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I didn't know that the touchpad would be that inconvenient to use before I bought the player. Besides, this feature would allow to operate the player without having to look at it, a nice feature to have if you carry the player in your pocket and don't want to take it out every time you want to start/stop/skip ahead/go back. I thought it'd be simple to implement something like that and It could be an optional feature too, that is, the user would change a config setting to enable it.
saratoga:
You're welcome to implement it yourself, but those kind of options are generally not welcome in the official code.
bthomson:
--- Quote from: bthomson on December 25, 2013, 12:02:00 AM ---
--- Quote from: pamaury on December 21, 2013, 05:21:32 AM ---@bthomsonl:
can you try with this build https://www.dropbox.com/s/ewwvyezg1730e7h/rockbox_fuzep.zip and report here exactly what is written on the crash screen please ?
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Thanks for your help! I really appreciate it. I tried that build today but I think I borked the install because the bootloader now says "Bad Checksum". This weekend I will try to download again and give it another shot.
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Hello, I am sorry I have not replied for a couple weeks. About a week ago I got this build working and today the player has locked up again. Here is what happened:
1) Audio playback stopped. Player was still on the "while playing screen", but the counter was no longer advancing.
2) Buttons were still working at this stage. I was able to hit back to go from the "while playing screen" to the menu and then back to the "while playing screen" again.
3) Now buttons have stopped working, sorta. All the buttons including volume up, down, power, and the touchpad will light up the backlight, but the player doesn't respond otherwise. It's stuck on the while playing screen. The backlight turns off after the configured delay period (10s).
4) Player has been in this state for more than the 5 minute idle shutdown so that is not activating. I force shut down the player by holding power button.
When I installed the build pamaury provided last week my settings were reset to default (I think that's because settings are stored in the .rockbox directory. I moved my old rockbox directory to .rockbox-old before unzipping). I decided to stick with the default settings for a while and did not experience any lockups while in default settings. However, yesterday I started changing the settings back to my preferences and today it has locked up. This could be a coincidence or it could be one of the settings I chose is the problem. So unless anyone has anything they would like me to try, my next step will be to reinstall pamaury's build and use the player with the default settings for a few weeks to see if I can reproduce the lock up that way.
I used this same SD card in a Rockbox Clip Zip for a while before installing pamaury's build on the Fuze+ and didn't experience any problems during that time. Well, except that Clip Zip sucks compared to Fuze+ ;D
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