Sansa Fuze+

[metaphys]

so as some of you already notice, we have now a touchpad sentivity settings that pamaury and I implemented. (general setting > system)
I also improved the keymaps on FM.
Also some correction about on some keymaps hint that were wrong

[fsclavo]

Thanks devs for this great work!
Pamaury: I downloaded firmware.sb and tried to upgrade bootloader on my fuze+, but OF is "ignoring" the upgrade. I tried several times, booting to OF, resetting the device, but OF always boot in normal mode, just like if firmware.sb doens't exists in root folder.
Do you have any ideas?

[pamaury]

Try to download the file again, make sure it is named correctly with no space, cleanly umount the disk before unplugging.

[monoid]

Many thanks to developers. New bootloader seems to work well, no problems so far. Charging started to work.
Also thanks for adding recording recently. And also it seems to me that touchpad reacts now in more predictable way. Even before it was by great deal better than original by Sansa, but now it seems to be fully satisfactory.

Thanks a lot!!! 

[megal0maniac]

Thanks devs for this great work!
Pamaury: I downloaded firmware.sb and tried to upgrade bootloader on my fuze+, but OF is "ignoring" the upgrade. I tried several times, booting to OF, resetting the device, but OF always boot in normal mode, just like if firmware.sb doens't exists in root folder.
Do you have any ideas?

I've also had this issue. I needed to copy the firmware.sb file onto the device while in the OF USB mode. Rockbox USB or bootloader USB would result in it being ignored.
Delete the file, then with the device off, hold volume down and plug in the USB cable then copy the file.

[pamaury]

Once again I have to clarify things for a few people who don't dare to read the last posts:

• Yes the volume is slow to change, report here: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/12880?project=1&type=2&order=dateopened&sort=desc
• Volume display might a wrong volume in some theme: it shows -100dB instead of -10dB, but the volume really is -10dB
• The MD5 sum of the RC bootloader is 90b61f730a21f19a98ee4e9f12a4c54d
• You might need to go in OF boot to put the firmware.sb file at the root, otherwise it may just get ignore
• The touchpad is not disabled when the screen is locked, this is the normal behaviour. Yes this is suboptimal, no it is not easy to change this, yes you can help by writing code instead of complaining

[Roboturner913]

Anybody else still have the freezing/slowdown issue during playback? It appears to happen completely at random.

I may have stumbled into a solution, or at least a workaround. Turning off the EQ seems to eliminate it. I turned it off because it was more convenient than messing with the tone controls on my car stereo. Ran it nearly 6 hours without one incident, whereas before it would happen roughly once an hour for 2-3 minutes at a time.

[ildarion]

Yeah, I still have the freezing/slowdown during playback and yes it's seem to be random. Sometimes it appears several times in a row, sometimes it is about to mean a whole ~30mins.

[pamaury]

Please, please, please, please, bug reports go on flyspray.
If you suffer from random freeze/slowdown, report it here: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/12886. Please do a complete a description and whenever you report a bug, make sure to reset all your settings before doing so. Thank you.

Announcement: some patches to disable touchpad on lock are on rail, Jean-Louis has made some tests and low power modes of the touchpad seem to gave us an extra 10% battery life. Wait and see

[gontofe]

some patches to disable touchpad on lock are on rail, Jean-Louis has made some tests and low power modes of the touchpad seem to gave us an extra 10% battery life.

Is this on flyspray or similar? Would be good to have a look and maybe recompile and test this?

[[Saint]]

No need. Just grab a current build.


[Saint]

EDIT by pamaury: it is not in the trunk, there are some patches like http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/#/c/525/ but Jean-Louis is still working on them. Be patient

[pamaury]

Hi all,
there have been very few user noticable changes recently but it will change soon. For now, some SD handling changes have been merged. This will effectively drive the microSD card at 50MHz instead of 25MHz. This should noticeably increase the read/write speed to sd cards in rockbox and via usb too. Note that will probably not read reach the full sd read/write speed with USB yet because of other latencies which I am trying to track down.
If you encounter any new problem with sd (like panic init failed or card not recognised), please make sure that older revision did work and if so report the problem.

[taxor]

After updating to firmware a122b52 my fuze+ is not playing flacs from SD Card anymore. MP3 from SD it is playing and flacs from internal memory too. If starting from SD card it always freezes instantly.

Older build from a week ago worked fine, especially all these random freezes the fuze+ sometime had were gone with that build. I hate me for done the update today 

[max242]

I did experience a couple of "delayed write failed" issues in the last couple of days while i was trying to put pictures in the mp3 using mp3tag.  Thinking maybe the uSD filesystem got corrupted i did run a checkdisk (in Windows 7), but apparently no FAT issues were found on the uSD-card.

So i hope the new code you want to release makes those things go away.  Anyhow, I'm willing to test.

And thanks for the great work of all you rockbox developers!

Marc

[pamaury]

I have reverted the high speed card switch become it appears to be unstable for some people. There are some new changes related to clock management, it shouldn't change anything on the Fuze+ but if you see new issues, let me know.