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Offline pamaury

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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #105 on: September 13, 2011, 03:29:38 AM »
Ok,
here is the procedure for anyone who wants to help me:
1) download this file: http://www.mediafire.com/file/71cfi4b7a55g25n/recovery.sb This a the svn bootloader with some modifications I haven't yet committed
2) build the imx_hid_recovery tool in the svn (utils/imx_hid_recovery/, http://svn.rockbox.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/utils/imx_hid_recovery/) if you haven't done it (no need for a cross-compiler !)
3) Boot the fuze+ in recovery mode (see the SansaFuzePlus wiki page, basically hold volume up while plugging usb)
4) Send the recovery.sb file to the device(probably need root access):
imx_hid_recovery 1024 recovery.sb
5) the screen will show some message, wait a few seconds and it should go into usb mode and appear as a mass storage device
6) make a partial raw dump of the device(I would like the first 64Mb if possible, and at least the first 4Mb) using dd:
dd bs=512 count=131072 if=/dev/sdb of=fuzep.bin
Don't forget to replace /dev/sdb by the actual device name (see dmesg messages) and changes count if you want to dump less (64Mb => 64 * 1024 * 1024 / 512 = 131072, 2Mb => 4 * 1024 * 1024 / 512 = 8192)
7) upload the fuzep.bin file :)

Thanks in advance :)
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Offline kerobaros

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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #106 on: September 14, 2011, 01:15:53 AM »
pamaury: here you go. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/126382/fuzep.bin
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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #107 on: September 14, 2011, 12:30:20 PM »
Thanks to metaphys and kerobaros I've found out what the problem was. I've managed to build a dual-boot bootloader so I can now select either rockbox or the OF. However doing so currently requres to use freescale's elftosb because the OF expects some alignement that my tool doesn't provide for now.
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Offline metaphys

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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #108 on: September 16, 2011, 07:55:11 AM »
great news!
I was just thinking: shouldn't the fuze+ appear on the unusable port's list of rockbox's homepage?
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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #109 on: September 16, 2011, 01:26:40 PM »
Yes you're right, it should probably appear. I should also update some parts of the wiki too.
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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #110 on: October 02, 2011, 04:34:08 PM »
Hi all,
It has been a long time since the last update but I have some great news! I've made lots of internal changes recently and now the port entirely usable except for the audio part. I wrote a basic touchpad driver so I can navigate it the menus and launch plugins. I changed lots of things regarding the bootloader and the wiki is not up to date but I plan to make Rockbox Utility capable of producing a fuze+ firmware and bootloader as soon as possible.
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Offline RipCurl

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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #111 on: October 03, 2011, 07:01:42 AM »
I always wonder, what part of the fuze+ is responsible for the laggy touchpad.... (touchpad itself, cpu, ram or bad firmware ???)

so i just want to know if the navigation in the rockbox menu is smooth and intuitive. Is it still some kind of laggy because its a problem with the hardware?
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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #112 on: October 03, 2011, 07:51:10 AM »
The touchpad itself is quite responsive, it can give the finger position 30 times per second or more. However the touchpad itself includes some gesture recognition software so instead of only giving the position of the finger and can also tells you things like "tap at x,y" "slick at at xy,y in direction dx,dy". The OF relies on this gesture recognition which is not really good and laggy. That explains why the OF seems to "miss" some gesture too. In the basic touchpad driver I wrote, I don't use the gesture recognition so it's really responsive but because the current driver is simplistic, it's not as good as I would like, yet.
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Offline RipCurl

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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #113 on: October 03, 2011, 08:01:52 AM »
that sounds REALLY GREAT!!!

btw: is there a way to navigate by "sliding" without using the gesture recognition from the touchpad? (= a selfmade/better gesture recognition implemented in rockbox)
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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #114 on: October 03, 2011, 08:05:02 AM »
Yes but I need to implement gesture recognition myself. I plan to do it but this is not a priority, the priority is to have audio work of course :)
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Offline kumy

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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #115 on: October 05, 2011, 09:53:27 AM »
Quote from: pamaury on October 02, 2011, 04:34:08 PM
I have some great news! I've made lots of internal changes recently and now the port entirely usable except for the audio part

youhou !

Great work. good luck for the next part

Quote from: pamaury on October 02, 2011, 04:34:08 PM
the wiki is not up to date

is the wiki updated ? Could you point me to the right page please ?
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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #116 on: October 18, 2011, 06:14:50 PM »
Hi all,
for those of you who don't follow the mailing list, I now have working sound !
It's still not quite easy to test it on real target because building the bootloader is rather tricky but I'll try to make rbutil do this as soon as possible.
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Offline metaphys

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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #117 on: October 19, 2011, 12:26:31 PM »
you rock endlessly  ;D
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Offline sandro

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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #118 on: October 23, 2011, 09:56:49 AM »
you do :D

Post Merge: October 23, 2011, 10:00:41 AM
Will it be released only when all the features are working 100%? For example I see that fm radio is not implemented
« Last Edit: October 23, 2011, 10:00:41 AM by sandro »
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Offline metaphys

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Re: Sansa Fuze+
« Reply #119 on: October 23, 2011, 10:30:11 AM »
I guess not but it seems that there is  still some work to have an installation process for human beings
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