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Sansa Fuze+
xpmule:
over time these builds have been getting worse and worse for me.. plenty of buggy sketchy behavior
but worst of all is lock ups started happening and have been happening more frequently the newer the update.
right now i can turn it on and navigate to certain database album lists or specific settings options and it locks.. every time :(
very repeatable yet seemingly at random places / albums etc.
When i highlight one menu option it freezes on me an di have to hold the power button down to shut it off and reboot
BUT
i checked changing from my custom theme i made and uploaded way back that has always worked fine
to the newest cabby v2 theme that comes with the firmware update and to my surprise i was not getting the freezing.
I started flipping back and forth and every time my theme froze the player and the official one did not.
and i just said it had always worked fine but i had noticed changes in the theme code implemented in the build logs i think couple weeks ago roughly.
My theme had nothing special or fancy going on with it either and i also noticed unusual lag a lot and way more sketchy navigation behavior using my theme too.
As it stands now Rockbox is simply unusable. I go out for a ride around town with it playing but have it turned off in my pocket by the time i go home.
Because it just keeps freezing (all over the place) and navigation is getting seriously hellish.
Over time i honestly think this Rockbox beta for the Fuze + has gotten incrementaly worse and worse.
Thank god i save my old builds lol
I'm preparing now to just use my Samsung Galaxy S3 as my main music player now (just need to find a good media player)
I appreciate the effort all the contributors have done and i wish the devs luck and i hope my feedback here was helpful (to others struggling)
But i think i'm done.. having only a beta version to use with no official build and random devs free to randomly break things like existing themes etc
is a crappy situation to be in. It's been a looooooong time since this was in beta stages and it's only gotten worse with getting out of beta no where in sight.
think of the users please.
PS: USB charging with Rockbox still don't work for me either (remember bitching at me about that ? lol)
I have to boot to the orig firmware just to charge it and lately that has has been failing too :(
This port has gone to hell !
thegreatyashu:
How do you change the bottom left and right "hold" hotkeys in the WPS? By default on the fuze+, if you hold the bottom left in the WPS, you get the speed/pitch menu. This is REALLY REALLY annoying because of the touch pad. This menu comes up ALL THE TIME. I am always accidentally changing the pitch or the speed. There is no option to change this menu or turn it off. It seems hard coded. It is not controlled by the hotkey selection in the settings, nor is the bottom right "hold" menu either (it brings up the file/song tag info).
How do you change button mapping?
Otherwise, it's working really well. This is the only issue I have had. The most recent build that includes a volume limit is astounding. I'm glad this feature made it in.
bthomson:
--- Quote from: xpmule on January 24, 2014, 05:09:15 AM ---over time these builds have been getting worse and worse for me.. plenty of buggy sketchy behavior
but worst of all is lock ups started happening and have been happening more frequently the newer the update.
--- End quote ---
xpmule, can you provide any more info? Specifically, which builds you have that lock up and which builds do not? I am also experiencing problems with lock-ups and would be very interested in trying the older code if it's more stable.
I am sure many of the other Fuze+ users would also appreciate your help in tracking down these more stable revisions.
pamaury:
--- Quote from: xpmule on January 24, 2014, 05:09:15 AM ---but worst of all is lock ups started happening and have been happening more frequently the newer the update.
right now i can turn it on and navigate to certain database album lists or specific settings options and it locks.. every time :(
very repeatable yet seemingly at random places / albums etc.
When i highlight one menu option it freezes on me an di have to hold the power button down to shut it off and reboot
--- End quote ---
Can you provide more information on this ? Are you using default parameters ? default theme ? Do you have a repeatable procedure to trigger the problem ?
--- Quote from: xpmule on January 24, 2014, 05:09:15 AM ---i checked changing from my custom theme i made and uploaded way back that has always worked fine
to the newest cabby v2 theme that comes with the firmware update and to my surprise i was not getting the freezing.
I started flipping back and forth and every time my theme froze the player and the official one did not.
and i just said it had always worked fine but i had noticed changes in the theme code implemented in the build logs i think couple weeks ago roughly.
My theme had nothing special or fancy going on with it either and i also noticed unusual lag a lot and way more sketchy navigation behavior using my theme too.
--- End quote ---
The theme engine has had many regressions recently which are not specific to the Fuze+ and can trigger strange behaviours. If the bugs only happen with your theme, it would be nice to open a bug report and attach it so that we have more example to try to track down bugs.
--- Quote from: xpmule on January 24, 2014, 05:09:15 AM ---But i think i'm done.. having only a beta version to use with no official build and random devs free to randomly break things like existing themes etc
is a crappy situation to be in. It's been a looooooong time since this was in beta stages and it's only gotten worse with getting out of beta no where in sight.
think of the users please.
--- End quote ---
Think of developers please, I'm doing this on my free time, just like other devs. Also if you don't report bugs, I cannot know about them.
--- Quote from: xpmule on January 24, 2014, 05:09:15 AM ---PS: USB charging with Rockbox still don't work for me either (remember bitching at me about that ? lol)
--- End quote ---
Are you using the latest bootloader ? Because charging is working in Rockbox and in latest Rockbox bootloader and I don't know of anyone for which it fails so I suggest you upgrade the bootloader using Rockbox Utility.
sdf5:
--- Quote from: thegreatyashu on January 24, 2014, 09:43:43 AM ---How do you change the bottom left and right "hold" hotkeys in the WPS? By default on the fuze+, if you hold the bottom left in the WPS, you get the speed/pitch menu. This is REALLY REALLY annoying because of the touch pad. This menu comes up ALL THE TIME. I am always accidentally changing the pitch or the speed. There is no option to change this menu or turn it off. It seems hard coded. It is not controlled by the hotkey selection in the settings, nor is the bottom right "hold" menu either (it brings up the file/song tag info).
--- End quote ---
I'm having a similar issue, would be nice if it was possible to fix it.
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