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Sony NWZ-E370
pamaury:
Hi,
thank you for your support :)
I have never witness this setting reset when booting back to the OF, I will check it out. It is possible that the OF simply wipes out some of the file, but then why did it not wipe out rockbox ?
I admit I never tried timestretch so I'll dig into the code to see how it works. Ideally I should write the manual for this player but i never found the courage to do it :(
kofaz:
OK, I tried this several more times, and now I'm even more confused. Perhaps it's just me and my player?
First, I backed up what was new on the player since installing Rockbox. Then I boot into OF, it took a very very long time to "creating library". Then I used the radio. OF works fine. Then I went into OF standby mode, then hit the reset button on back of player. When I booted into Rockbox, all settings were default settings. Cfg, theme, wps, and bookmark files were gone. A folder in my music directory was also gone. In this folder were all the playlists I had made using the player, I also created the folder using the player. Another folder, containing a bunch of text files, was still on player. This folder was created with a computer, and the files were transferred to the player.
I was curious if it was OF or Rockbox deleting files. So as a quick test I copied the backed up folder of playlists to device and booted into OF. Then connected to a computer to see if it was still there. Hmmm...I was surprised that even though I was in OF, the player was displaying rockbox usb screen...? The folder was still there. Once disconnected I was instantly back in Rockbox, and folder remained.
So now I'm guessing that only the files created on the player are getting deleted, not files transferred to it. I transferred all the backed up files to player, boot into OF, then back into Rockbox...everything is still there, and player is just like it was before all these tests.
For one final test, I created a few new bookmarks, boot into OF, then into Rockbox. I was assuming that everything would be there except the bookmarks I just created...But it was all gone again?!
A few more observations:
-There are now many new files on root of player. They're named 137918_cache through 137935_cache. When opened as text, they display garbled nonsense.
-The firmware.sb file is not on root of player. Not sure if it ever was since after installing rockbox.
-I looked in my rockbox fonts folder. I'd recently added all the fonts from the fonts pack, and "played" them all, to see what they looked like. After playing them, a .gc file was created for each font. The fonts were all still there. But the font.gc files were not. Again, the .gc files were created by the player, and disappeared. Whereas the fonts were transferred to it, and stayed.
I think I'll just stay out of the OF. Luckily, even if one accidentally long presses the back/home button, OF won't boot up until after a longpress on the hold button to unlock.
mxyzptlk:
I recently picked up a NWZ-E384 to replace my poor, dead Sansa Clip Zip, and had some real difficulty getting it Rockboxed. It's not an option on the utility, and there were some issues with the bootloader firmware provided at the beginning of this thread.
However, after visiting the IRC, I got some stellar assistance from Saint, who patiently listened to me trying to explain how nothing changed after putting the bootloader in the root directory, and then compiled a new bootloader and everything.
And it worked.
Saint will be in touch with the right folk about what was done to get it to work, and I can post anything I've found with it here. I still have muscle-memory from years and years of Sansa Clip use, and am finding that not all the keys work quite the same. Take the game plugin solitaire; in order to get it to deal new cards, need to hold the Option and then Up (it's the upper-left Back button on the Sansa).
(EDIT: After completing a game of solitaire, when the cards bounce all over, it locked up the entire device. Had to press the reset button on the back in order to restart the device.)
It seems like it could be a handy little device, and I may look at adapting the Cleanscreen theme for it.
mxyzptlk:
Something else I noticed that's another difference from the Sansa Clip Zip: Can't seem to browse the settings or anything else while playing a file.
In the Sansa, to browse the other options in Rockbox during play, you click the Home button (upper-left). With that you can browse other files, themes, plugins, etc.
In the Walkman, the button to get to the files, settings, plugins, and other options is the Play/Pause button, which also stops play. After over a decade of Clips, I'm probably a little too used to hitting the Walkman's Home/Back button to get to those options, because it's in the same location as the Clip's Home button -- but that does nothing. Would using the Home/Back button on the Walkman make more sense? Or would there be a way to get to those same options through the Context Menu? Because the Context Menu can be reached by holding down the Option button for a moment.
(And if you're still looking for lab rats to test builds, I'm in.)
kofaz:
I use an nwz-385. While an mp3 is playing in the wps pressing the home/back button takes me to the file browser, pressing it again takes me to the main menu. I have no trouble browsing files or settings.
I had no trouble installing. There is a different bootloader for 37x models and 38x models. Download the rockbox firmware/bootloader, rename it firmware.sb, put it in the root folder. Perhaps your problems are from the bootloader saint built for you, keys not remapped?
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