Sansa Fuze+

[buckminster]

Regarding my touchpad problem, while the backlight is on, all touchpad functionality appears to function normally. I just downloaded and installed bootloader V7(was on V6) and installed a current build (d2f97da-120216). I reset my settings to default as well.

With "First press turns backlight on" set to no and the backlight currently off (keyclick set to "weak" and no repeat):

Menus -

• tapping right acts as if I'm holding on the center
• tapping left, up, down, or back acts as if I tapped the respective spot twice (goes up/down/back two menu items)

WPS -

• tapping right or left acts as if I pressed and held to start to skip through the track (two audible clicks and the Play icon changes to the FFWD or Rewind icon temporarily)
• tapping play/pause while music is playing will pause the music and go back one screen
• tapping play/pause while music is paused will simply go back one screen

With "First press turns backlight on" set to yes and the backlight currently off (keyclick set to weak and no repeat):

Menus -

• tapping right acts as expected (turns backlight on)
• tapping left, up, down, or back acts as if I tapped the respective spot once (goes up/down/back one menu item)

WPS -

• tapping right or left acts as if I pressed and held to start to skip through the track (one audible click and the Play icon changes to the FFWD or Rewind icon temporarily)
• tapping play/pause while music is playing will pause the music and go back one screen
• tapping play/pause while music is paused will simply go back one screen

Am I the only one experiencing this? Should I file a bug?

[alienkid10]

I have this too.
Pamaury on the PWRBTN issue: I find it odd how sensitive it is, since with OF Bootloader it's not this sensitive.

[mysiak]

Buckminster, I have tried your tests and sometimes it worked exactly as you described, but in other cases I couldn't repeat the behavior - key presses were detected and interpreted correctly. Maybe pamaury can bring some light on this.

[pamaury]

I have checked what the OF does and indeed, it doesn't boot if the power button is not hold for a certain amount of time. Unfortunately, this check happen after the rockbox bootloader decides whether to boot to OF or rockbox. As a consequence, the boot delay only exists when one boot the OF.
I'll modify the bootloader to mimic this behaviour. But it also means that to boot the OF, the two delays will be cumulated.

I have no answer for the key presses which are ignored. I think this is not related to the fuze+.

[alienkid10]

pamaury: How long will the delay be for both boot to RB and OF?

[highwar]

hello

I am new to rockbox there are a few stuff I dont understand

I tried to install the file of sansa fuze plus ( the rockbox-sansafuzeplus file ' I unzipped it)
and copied it to the player ( it was at msc usb mode)
but it doesnt work what do I need to do ? is there a simple way ?


edit I put the .rockbox folder and the firware.sb at the player at msc mode but the original os still pops up

[buckminster]

If the firmware.sb is in the root folder of the fuze+, it should have caused the fuze+ to go into it's firmware update mode once you unplugged it from your computer. If it didn't, then you didn't put the file in the correct directory. Both the .rockbox folder and the firmware.sb should be in the root (main) folder of the fuze+ (there should be other folders there like Music, Playlists, Recordings, etc.).

Someone else will need to confirm, but I think the RockboxUtility might work for a more automated install of the bootloader and firmware now.

[ddscentral]

hello

I am new to rockbox there are a few stuff I dont understand

I tried to install the file of sansa fuze plus ( the rockbox-sansafuzeplus file ' I unzipped it)
and copied it to the player ( it was at msc usb mode)
but it doesnt work what do I need to do ? is there a simple way ?


edit I put the .rockbox folder and the firware.sb at the player at msc mode but the original os still pops up

To install Rockbox, copy firmware.sb (you need to patch it with Rockbox bootloader first) and .rockbox directory to player root.
After reboot, player should go into firmware upgrade mode. After the upgrade is finished, Rockbox should boot by default. To boot the OF, hold volume down key when powering on.

[highwar]

I did it just as you siad and it did do updating sansa fuze screen but after that it went to the original system.. is there a way like pushing a combination of keys to start rockbox os ?

how do I patch firware.sb ?
and where can i download the bootloader is it the rockbox Utility ?


edit I used the rockbox utility program and I started to patch the file and  the program disapeared meaning shutted down by it self ?

[mysiak]

Use "alternative method" mentioned here: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaFuzePlusPort

[highwar]

I did as you said with the bootloader v7
+the folder

what it did :
started updating fuze plus after that it wrote you have successfully updated your device and then it went to the original os ? what the ? lol


can you guys help me or even upload your fireware file and rockbox file amby it will help although I dont think so.

since i want to try rockbox

[mysiak]

That's really strange, I downloaded bootloader v7 and latest build of rockbox for fuze+, extracted both files to the root of internal storage and rebooted the player. OF booted, detected new FW, updated FW and restarted to rockbox. Everything worked at first try.. Maybe you could try to remove microSD card if you're using one, it's recommended to do FW updates with no card inserted.

[halonachos117]

I think you need to reboot the player after you install the bootloader. Once the OF installs it, it will reboot into itself, I think. But when you reboot the player, Rockbox should load.

[highwar]

I did it without sd card... maby its beccause I have the latest fireware of  sansa fuze ..they made a very new update 3 days ago I think


you downlaoded the rockbox-sansafuzeplus extracted it on your pc
then extracted the v7 bootloader


then copied the v7 and rockbox. to the player and it worked//well I did the same and it didnt work

[ddscentral]

Try using an earlier version if the latest version doesn't work.