Sansa Fuze+

[Julian67]

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:......

Hi pamaury, I didn't log-in here or check for progress for a long time as my Fuze+ has become redundant in these days of cellphones with high quality audio playback.  But I still have it and it simply refuses to die so anyway this evening I charged up my Fuze+ and built the newest Rockbox from git.  Very nice!  OK I am almost a year late but thank you pamaury for the device specific improvements.  The auto lock stuff is great, as I like to have volume hardware keys active when touchpad is locked; this is so much easier and better than the old patches i.e. http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/#/c/760/  and it's very nice that different people can make their own choices.  The general touchpad and menu UI improvements are very welcome too.

I have to say this thing still sounds very nice with my Shure SE215 and SE425.  I'm still impressed by it.

I am now thinking I might be interested in a 512GB micro SDXC if such a thing ever becomes a reality.  Probably you should pay half ;-)

[Julian67]

Naturally two days after I posted this my Fuze+ died on me (faulty USB hardware making kernel panic).  Oh well, back to the iRiver H140 which will is now 14 years old but has been revived with SSD and big capacity battery.  In that time it has seen the the arrival and death of several phones and three Sansa players.

[greatjack]

Im looking into getting a new device, I just wanted to know what the state of the fuze+ touch pad driver is, last time i tried it with rockbox it was limited to tapping the arrows. Has any progress on gesture analysis been made? If yes what is the status of it? is it comfortable to use?

[pamaury]

No the state is the same, we do not support gestures.

[InGearX]

any idea what is max capacity that Sansa Fuze+ will support?

128GB FAT32? maybe even 200GB and 256GB?

official page is useless - as it says 32 GB for Sansa Clip+  and Sansa Clip Zip  but I have formatted my 128GB microSDHC and works fine
says the same for Sansa Fuze+ but it is older - so who knows
https://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/200/~/highest-capacity-memory-card-supported-by-a-sansa-player


https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaFuzePlus

PLEASE - IF YOU REPLY - send me also a PM - as I will also get an email ... (as this thread is rarely updated / checked )

thank you so much

[pamaury]

I have no idea if the original firmware has a limit on size of the microSD card. Rockbox has no limitation and 128GB cards should work without problem. One thing for sure is that this is no electrical limit, it's entirely a software thing.

[InGearX]

I have no idea if the original firmware has a limit on size of the microSD card. Rockbox has no limitation and 128GB cards should work without problem. One thing for sure is that this is no electrical limit, it's entirely a software thing.

thank you would love a confirmation from anyone who got it working with 128GB

before I order some ...

thank you ...

[electropirate]

64 GB no issues

[InGearX]

64 GB no issues

NICE!! thank you so much!!

128 GB should be good to go as well then
and 200 and 256

will see

[phil8715]

I've got a Sansa Fuse+ using a 128gb micro sd card.

It works great and I've not come across any problems.

Thank to all who worked on the port.

[Roboturner913]

I am using a 200 gb Sandisk Ultra Plus card in my Fuze+ with no issues.

In fact the only issue I have with the Fuze+ inherent to Rockbox is the slight screen flicker (not complaining, it's barely noticeable). It's a brilliant device otherwise.

If some enterprising soul were to ever hack one of these things up and implant the original Fuze scroll wheel in place of the touch controls - ah but that's a fantasy.

[Pingouin]

Agreed, thanks to pamaury for making an otherwise hopeless device (good grief, this touchpad is really poorly implemented in OFW!) into something very usable that I've been using almost daily for several years. I only ever use the stock firmware to charge the battery (I'm not actually sure that the stock firmware is "better" at this task, but I also have Rockbox set to auto-resume, so if I was booting in Rockbox to charge the battery I'd have to remember to pause it when starting charging and play again before switching it off post-charging).
TBH, I only bought it once I knew that Rockbox was in the works for it I actually got another one in the meantime, but it died only a couple of years after purchase.

[Wdtfs3]

I was attempting to use mkimxboot.exe to upgrade me sansa. but it will not work.
here is the output:
[INFO] mkimxboot models:
[INFO]   Fuze+: idx=0 rb_model=fuz+ rb_num=72
[INFO] mkimxboot mapping:
[INFO]   md5sum=c3e27620a877dc6b200b97dcb3e0ecc7 -> idx=0
[ERR] Cannot open input file
Result: -2

[saratoga]

The input file you're trying to patch couldn't be opened.  Assuming you gave it a valid firmware file, copy the whole log to pastebin and then link that here (the forums will cut it off you try to paste into a post).

[Wdtfs3]

The input file you're trying to patch couldn't be opened.  Assuming you gave it a valid firmware file, copy the whole log to pastebin and then link that here (the forums will cut it off you try to paste into a post).

C:\Users\allen>Desktop\rbinstall\mkimxboot.exe -i firmware.sb -b bootloader-fuzeplus.sansa -o patched.sb -t dualboot
[INFO] mkimxboot models:
[INFO]   Fuze+: idx=0 rb_model=fuz+ rb_num=72
[INFO] mkimxboot mapping:
[INFO]   md5sum=c3e27620a877dc6b200b97dcb3e0ecc7 -> idx=0
[ERR] Cannot open input file
Result: -2
this is the entire output/input