Sansa Fuze+

[timtoo]

My beloved e260 screen finally got smashed, so I'm trying the Fuze+. I had to compile it myself as the firmeware link in the install instructions appears to be broken (and also RockboxUtility fails to download it).

It works pretty well so far, though I have had a couple of lock ups...

Several times i've triggered a kernel panic/crash when inserting the SD card. This doesn't happen all the time, but always does eventually. Especially if removing/replacing the card quickly. The message displayed is:

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*PANIC*
microSD init failed : -100
pc:60061360 sp:600F9968
bt end

The other freeze-up I had seemed random and has not repeated, so I can't narrow in on what may have caused it.

Is there an explanation of how the touchpad/buttons work on Fuze+ anywhere? I figured out the obvious up/down/left/right & select presses, but didn't even realise you could press the lower/right & lower/left quadrant area, for example, until reading this thread. (And finally figuring out that lower/right quadrant press changes mode on the pitch screen -- something that had been baffling me. My old e260 used the record button for this, which of course does not exist on Fuze+.)

I'm looking at keymap-fuzeplus.c source code and slowly starting to understand the constants there... but it's a pretty rough way to learn. 

(Okay, fourth attempt at solving the captcha to post now... what the hell?!)

[pamaury]

Hi,
I'm not sure what you mean by broken because the usual link (http://build.rockbox.org/data/rockbox-sansafuzeplus.zip) works for me.
Also you must be aware that we have a manual which documents all the keymap, it took a lot of work to write it down.
For the sd panic, yes it's a known thing, could be solved but in practice it never happen if you don't insert the sd half-way and remove it.
It would be interesting if you could have a reproducible sequence of the lock-up.

[MadkaT]

I think he's saying that the Dropbox link for the bootloader are dead, I was trying them too.

Well, I have a Sansa Fuze plus too, and I have a pair of questions, I've installed rockbox like a year ago, but when the battery reaches 0 percent of charge and I try to charge the sansa with the pc, It wont boot in the Original Firmware, it boot in Rockbox USB Mode, and if I try to restart I get a white screen showing a stack overflow message (stkoflw or something like that i can't remember) my question is: If I update the bootloader file it fixes this boot problem when the battery is fully discharged and won't boot in original firmnware? I have installed rockbox from the Rockbox utility from windows. I think those files don't have applied this fixes if they're accesible.

Thanks for reading.

[pamaury]

Hi,
I will remove the dropbox links, they are not supposed to be used anymore anyway. The current bootloader version is "V2" so if you bootloader displays "V1", you should update it.

EDIT: there are no dropbox links on the wiki so I don't know which links are supposedly dead.

[MadkaT]

Yes, when I turn it on it says Bootloader 1.0 but where can We get the Ver 2 of the bootloader?

[pamaury]

As always, install it with RockboxUtility...

[Frenchie23]

"Keys:Physical keys are handled (see (1)). Touch pad RMI driver has been implemented, some basic gesture analysis has been written but needs to be enhanced. "
100% it is when ?

[[Saint]]

100% it is when ?

Some time between now, and never.

Such is the nature of the project.

People work on what they want to work on, when they want to work on it, if they want to work on it.
You could perhaps help to speed up completion by contributing to the project yourself.


[Saint]

[pamaury]

Hi All,
The Fuze+ has gained a new feature: the touchpad has a configurable deadzone between buttons, to prevent mispress. You can find it next to the sensitivity setting.

[Njones]

Is this in the latest development build?

[__builtin]

Is this in the latest development build?

Yes, it was commited very recently.

[Njones]

What is a reasonable # to set it on.
?

[[Saint]]

What is a reasonable # to set it on.
?

Whatever feels reasonable to you.

Experiment.


[Saint]

[fennectech]

hey pamaury   your code runs on my device    you do great work   thank you for creating this port

[pamaury]

Hi All,
some update on the target. I haven't touched the fuze+ for a long time, I'm sorry. I have been doing some maintenance, and posted some patches on gerrit to review and test. Here is a short overview of what is coming:

• charging issue: there is a long standing issue where the device discharges after being charged completly. This is fixed in http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/#/c/1298/ which I plan to commit very soon. Obviously this only fixes the main firmware and it will take a bootloader release to fix the bootloader. I will try to plan a new bootloader release not too far ahead.
• some people have notified bad reactivity when screen is fading in/out: the situation should improve with http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/#/c/1310/
• touchpad latency: another common issue is touchpad unreliable latency with the current code,which explain some missed presses and some weird behaviour especially when screen was off and turns on. The rework http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/#/c/1314/ will make the touchpad much more responsive. Of course this does not change fundamentally how the touchpad works and we still have no gestures unfortunately.
• auto-lock: there is discussion about auto-lock at http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,51211.0.html and I plan to implement this.
• recording problem: someone reported very low recording level at http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,50804.0.html. I will try it on mine. If anyone can confirm and maybe bisect it that would be awesome.
• debug screen: minor issue but the crash in the touchpad debug screen is finally gone (for those would dare to enter the debug menu)