iaudio x5v no/broken menu on main color screen

[PeterHalion]

Hi all,
I installed the latest version of rockbox v3.13 on my iaudio x5v player. The booloader comes up properly and loads rockbox. Then on the main screen on the devices, the rockbox logo appears in strange colors (picture 1) and sometimes it manages to load the top-bar (showing battery level, etc). Then it mostly hangs; very rarely it makes it into the menu but then crashes later on (picture 2). On the small LCD screen on the devices connected to the headphone connectors, the menu comes up properly and I am able to do basically anything with the player; it´s just the main screen not loading the menu.

Did any of you experience the same issues? Is there a way in rockbox to get a log-file that I could try to interprete or hand or post here for developers?

Thanks alot for you help.

More info: I also changes the battery because I thought it might be a low-voltage problem. Did not help. When booting rockbox, the spash screen appears but some lines appear in wrong color (like blueish). It feels like some read corruption.. Also on the top-right on the toolbar a wrench symbols appears (if it manages to loads the tool-bar). What would that mean? With the original software/firmware, the player works without problems.

[[Saint]]

Are you able to close either one of these duplicate threads (assumedly the other one, as I have replied to this one, and this one is in a more appropriate thread), please?

There really is no reason to post identical content into two separate threads.

Is there a way in rockbox to get a log-file that I could try to interpret or hand or post here for developers?

No, there is not.

Also on the top-right on the toolbar a wrench symbols appears (if it manages to loads the tool-bar). What would that mean?

This is nothing to worry about at all, its apparently just something you haven't noticed before, its not new, nor problematic.
It is the built-in status bar's disc access (I/O) indicator. It simply means that the disc is being accessed at that point.


In regard to your issue, I would suggest checking the filesystem on the device as a start:

Windows
Mac
*nix-like systems


[Saint]

[wodz]

This pretty much looks like hardware issue. First I would check if lcd flex cable sits tightly in the socket. Judging from the pictures, the device has been dismantled so loose cable is quite possible.

[PeterHalion]

Hi and thanks for your kind help. I also appologize for opening 2 threads.

I am nearly sure that this is not a hardware issue. I first chkdsked the hard drive and found no errors; I also reformatted the disk without luck.
There are no loose connections either. HD cable ok, screen cable as well.

When I put the original 2.09v-e and also 2.10v-e x5v firmware back on, it works _without any_ problems at all.
I have now been raping the player with the original firmware 2.10v-e for about 3h straight without any glitch or strange behavior (on both screens).

I am tending to think that the x5v 3.13 release of rockbox is broken, but I have no ways to check any further...

Best regards, Peter