HiFi ET MA9c & Rockbox

[straightrazor]

I have recently purchased a HIFI ET MA9c directly from HIFI ET.
I am very pleased with it, the only problem I am having relates to Rockbox, I am hoping for some advice from this forum.
 
Not having a PC with Winows XP or 7 32bit, I requested that it be shipped with Rockbox preinstalled. This did happen, and when booting from the card it boots into Rockbox with no problem. The combination of this player and Rockbox I find to be excellent.
 
Having Rockbox preinstalled, I expected to be able to download the latest Rockbox files for the MA9C from the Rockbox site, place on the SDHC card and boot to the newest version.
 
When doing so, I receive the message “bad id No”. I have then looked at the info file (Rockbox) that was on the card that came with the player and work. Comparing this file to the one on the Rockbox site, the id numbers for the payer are different ( do not have the details here with me).
 
I checked the relevant details for the files for the MA9 on the rockbox site, this file has the same player id as the files pre loaded onto my player. Despite this being for the MA9 not the MA9C i tried these files, the player booted but of course the screen colours were wrong as expected using the incorrect files.
 
I am at a loss as to why this is the case. I have contacted the company and they were of little help. All they suggested was to install as per the instructions on the Rockbox site. This is no help to me as I still do not have a machine that will allow me to do the installation.
 
I would like to know it would be possible to place the files for the MA9 on to my card, then replace the files that impact the screen with those from the MA9C (if anyone can identify them).
 
Whilst I am pleased with the player and that it has Rockbox on it, I am currently unable to upgrade to the most recent Rockbox files where it should have been a simple issue of placing the MA9C files onto the card.
 
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[saratoga]

I'm not familiar with that device specifically, but can you post the rockbox-info.txt from the .rockbox folder that came with the device and the one you downloaded?  Maybe that will have a clue.

[[Saint]]

Do we even supply a binary for this target?

I know we have an MA8C binary, and an MA9 binary...but, no MA9C.

Whilst I am pleased with the player and that it has Rockbox on it, I am currently unable to upgrade to the most recent Rockbox files where it should have been a simple issue of placing the MA9C files onto the card.

That's where this becomes problematic.

As far as I am aware, these files don't exist, at least from our (Rockbox's) perspective.

There's a (very old) singular binary on the HifietMAPort wiki page, bootloader and checkwps builds on the build table...but I don't see any main binary there.


[Saint]

[straightrazor]

Thanks for the reply.

I have attrached a text file with the contents of the rockbox info file from

1 :- the .rockbox folder on card shipped with the player (this works correctly)

2 :- the rockbox folder for the MA9C as downloaded from the rockbox site, dev builds (will not boot, wrong id)

3 : - the rockbox folder for the MA9 as downloaded from the rockbox site, dev builds (boots, screen colours incorrect)

[saratoga]

I didn't work on that port, but my random guess looking at those files and the git logs is that you need to run the MA9C build, but with a newer bootloader.  It looks like the build you were running before was an early build from well before the port was merged into the main source.  Its possible the bootloader you have doesn't know how to load the final MA9C port as it exists in our project.  I would try updating the bootloader and then using the MA9C. 

[straightrazor]

Thank you for the advice. this makes sense from what is happening. I now need to sort out updating using the rockchip utility. my nromrla pc is win 7 64 bit and it does not work on this. I have tried on a an xp 32 bit pc however struggle to install the usb driver.

Thanks.

[straightrazor]

Thanks,
This has worked. Once I worked out how to set up the USB drivers for my pc, I have been able to re flash it and the rockbox files work correctly.

I had wrongly assumed that when I asked the manafacure to install the most recent version of rockbox, that this would happen.