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Ricardo Dawkins:
Hello boys!

I'm newbie here but managed to install this build of Rockbox Exp (2.8.1d) over the 1.29K firmware on my iriver H320.

Now, the original iriver firmware can't load after pressing and hold record before turning on the player. Player get stuck on the loading screen.

I followed all the advice on the Rockbox.org page about: resetting the player, scanning the disk, renaming or removing some files on the player and even formatting the drive twice. And got the same result with the 1.29K firmware stuck on the loading screen.

Tried to downgrade to a old version of Rockbox and got the same results. Rockbox still loads fine.

What should I do to recover the 1.29K firmware since I want to play videos ?
The is a way to recover the firmware without doing the procedure described on the player's manual ?

Any clues. Thanks for any answer and regards.

ego:
just in case, check make sure:

with the player off, hold record. hold play, and keep both buttons pressed until the iriver logo displays.

if that doesn't help, can you describe with more detail what is wrong? when you say 'stuck on the loading screen,' do you mean the bootloader loading screen or the iriver loading screen?

Ricardo Dawkins:
Hi Ego

I did what you told me. Still, freeze (stuck) on the iriver's loading screen. It reads-...
Ver 1.29K
LOADING...

What happens is that I need to boot on the iriver firmware. After pressing holding both record + play to load it my player is always freezing on the load screen since I updated to Rockbox Experimental build 2.8.1d from this site:
http://rockbox.biniaris.net/KoshBuilds.html

Check the thread here about this build:
http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=38917&page=57

Rockbox is still working fine. the bootloader version is 5. Before all this, dual boot was working fine. Shame on me.

Hoping someone else can help me, too.

ego:
hm. try plugging the player in to AC while it's off, or holding record and plugging it into USB. if you can make the iriver fw boot somehow, you can flash to a clean copy of 1.29k and then try again (which is my only idea for a solution).  good luck. the people at the rockbox IRC channel might be able to offer advice too, usually most of the devs hang out there.

because it sounds like a bootloader problem and not a rockbox problem, the build you're using probably doesn't matter... i think.

Llorean:
Though it's strange that the problem started according to him after he switched builds. I'd be curious to know if it was from an official build to one of the experimental/optimized/whatever other builds.

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