Xduoo x3

[Kokos]

Hi guys,

I'm putting this here for visibility. I've raised some issues and proposals for enhancement here: https://github.com/xvortex/rockbox/issues

Also I can see sometimes I can access SD card while device is charging via USB and sometimes not.. This is quite strange, I will keep eye on it.

K

[squonk]

@XVortex,
Noob here. I just downloaded update-to-rockbox-d312ba8M-160316.zip and changed the name to update.zip.
I am stuck in boot screen saying
"Loading firmware...
Error: File not found"
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

You must have the SD card formatted with FAT32 and with 4096 (4KB) cluster, not important what is the SD capacity.

[zinm]

@XVortex,
Noob here. I just downloaded update-to-rockbox-d312ba8M-160316.zip and changed the name to update.zip.
I am stuck in boot screen saying
"Loading firmware...
Error: File not found"
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

You must have the SD card formatted with FAT32 and with 4096 (4KB) cluster, not important what is the SD capacity.

Thanks for the reply. Which format should I change to? Right now it stuck in error screen.

[squonk]

You must have the SD card formatted with FAT32 and with 4096 (4KB) cluster, not important what is the SD capacity.

Thanks for the reply. Which format should I change to? Right now it stuck in error screen.

What do you mean? Use a tool to format the SD card (I used succesfully the free AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 6.0) as I posted before...

[Serenity]

Bought one of these just because of this port! Rockbox runs very well on it, and it's SO good to have it on a nicer player again (my ailing iRiver H320 is unhappy these days).

I have run into a panic! error a few times where the player will freeze until I can reset it. It usually happens a few seconds after boot when I try pressing a button or two. It may have something to do with having recently connected via USB (under the OFW) to manage files. Once I reset, though, it behaves.

Thank you Vortex and everyone else who helped make this possible.

[Serenity]

Kokos, I think you're right--I set my player to boot into the WPS and have had no issues, probably because I don't try navigating the menu so soon on boot.

I have run into the issue where Ogg files won't play, though. This is less than ideal, since over half my music is Ogg Vorbis.    I'm going to try stripping the comments from a few and see if that helps. There's OFW for that I suppose, but compared to Rockbox, the OFW is very limited.

[Kokos]

I'm putting this here for visibility. I've raised some issues and proposals for enhancement here: https://github.com/xvortex/rockbox/issues

I'm still not sure developer can see these requests, whether this is right place to submit them.

[Serenity]

I'm assuming since this isn't an official Rockbox port (yet), xVortex is simply making his own port available for others to use/modify/review. If he doesn't use Ogg Vorbis, pause on headphone plug out, etc., it's likely he's not interested in troubleshooting these issues.

It is possible to contact him via his website, but he does refer Rockbox support questions to the Head-Fi forum devoted to the port. If I get sassy (or drunk) I may contact him and ask, but for now I'm just happy the X3 runs Rockbox.

[Tacoboy]

Does Rockbox currently work well with the Xduoo X3.
As I'm thinking of getting the Xduoo X3 (Rockboxed) as an improvement, over my Sony NWZ-E464 player.

[Serenity]

That depends on how forgiving your definition of "well" is. The Xduoo X3 is responsive, sounds great, and has very few issues running Rockbox.

The only two real bugs I've run into consistently are lack of Ogg Vorbis support (the X3 skips any .ogg files) and the "stkov dircache" panic error. If you don't use Ogg Vorbis for your music, then no problem there. And the panic error doesn't seem to happen often (usually when I try navigate the menu immediately on boot). All I have to do is let the X3 boot and leave it alone for five or ten seconds, then it's fine.

Another note: Use a card reader or boot into OFW to transfer music to the device. USB connectivity is a little strange with Rockbox. I use a card reader anyway, just for the speed boost.

If you can live with these bugs, then grab an X3. Even with the bugs, Rockbox is so much better than the original firmware.

[Doghouse Riley]

For those of you you are using a Rockboxed Xduoo, what is the largest capacity SDXC card you've used successfully?

[squonk]

For those of you you are using a Rockboxed Xduoo, what is the largest capacity SDXC card you've used successfully?

Now I use a 128Gb in slot 1 and a 64Gb in slot 2.
I don't think there is any problem with two 128Gb cards in both slot: many user on head-fi report that this is possible.
I don't know about larger microSd...

[Ste-]

I use 2x 128gb cards in mine no problem. I've read reports of 2x 200gb ones working.
Alas this has very little to do with Rockbox dev. so I shall run.

[Massa]

So what's the state of this port?

Are the source changes (re)integrated in the main rockbox repository?

Or are the source changes for the xduoo device only available at xvortex repository fork at github?
That would it make harder to reintegrate it to the "normal" rockbox repo because xvortex' changes are more than five months old... 

Is any dev with commit access here in contact with xvortex to reintegrate the changes?

[gregsoir]

So what's the state of this port?

Are the source changes (re)integrated in the main rockbox repository?

Or are the source changes for the xduoo device only available at xvortex repository fork at github?
That would it make harder to reintegrate it to the "normal" rockbox repo because xvortex' changes are more than five months old... 

Is any dev with commit access here in contact with xvortex to reintegrate the changes?

maybe try to mail the developer?
http://xvtx.ru/rockbox/contact.htm