AGPTEK Rocker

[nonob]

Hello,,

Thanks for your reply. Also i receive a response from Agptek :

Yes, our rocker support Rockbox, rocker is MC15 and MC 15 2nd, they are same model just different name. Other models don't support rock box.

Bye

[crdaley]

Has there been any luck routing Rockbox audio output through a bluetooth connection?  I've had success getting devices connected via the bt_enable, bt-device, etc commands listed on the wiki https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AgptekRocker.  It even looks like we might be able to support a non-zero PIN through the bt-agent executable (I don't own a non-zero PIN speaker so I can't test).

While I can get devices connected fine, no audio seems to be output to the bluetooth headphone.  I've been messing around with aplay to see if I could play something directly from the Linux / ADB shell but I've had no luck there either.  I was curious if anyone else had any luck before I keep digging around in the system.

[wodz]

Yes, it is possible. I tested playback to bt headphones. Unfortunately can't remember details - it was quite some time ago.

[almog1006]

Yes, it is possible. I tested playback to bt headphones. Unfortunately can't remember details - it was quite some time ago.

Hi wodz, please..
1. Are there problems with the Rocker rockbox firmware?
2. Is the problem with "the screen turned on while the device is not being used" fixed?
3. I want to buy this player.. is "Benjie t6" ok? I mean is the Benjie t6 same as rocker or can be problems with the Rockbox firmware?? and what version should i buy

Thank you for your work!

[WarpEnterprises]

First of all thanks for this port - I am one more with a slowly dying Sansa ClipZip in search of a new device.
So far the BenjieT6 looks fine.
But I can't find the Hotkey-Menu (settings..general settings..Hotkey..WPS Hotkey). I used this to quickly delete a file.
Can anyone tell me if and how this can be enabled in some way?

[mowing-parapet]

I've browsed through this thread I think from start to finish several times, but I'm unsure what the install steps are as of today.

1. Does one still start here? https://github.com/wodz/rockbox-wodz/tree/agptek-rocker/tools/agptek_rocker

2. Once one has output from that build process (patched update.upt and rockbox.zip), what does one do with them?  I feel like the best answer would be a link rather than a description, because the latter might prompt further questions.  Perhaps that link should then be added to the end of the page above?

Sorry to ask here: I'd ask elsewhere, but I don't see any discussion re AGPTEK Rocker elsewhere, only requests not to post here :-/  In my defence: if I can get the thing installed and working well enough to have hope it's workable for me, I might well make some patches / PRs, I'm a programmer but not an embedded programmer so I'm clueless with dumping flash memory and whatever else it is you wizards do.

[Milardo]

I've browsed through this thread I think from start to finish several times, but I'm unsure what the install steps are as of today.

1. Does one still start here? https://github.com/wodz/rockbox-wodz/tree/agptek-rocker/tools/agptek_rocker

2. Once one has output from that build process (patched update.upt and rockbox.zip), what does one do with them?  I feel like the best answer would be a link rather than a description, because the latter might prompt further questions.  Perhaps that link should then be added to the end of the page above?

Sorry to ask here: I'd ask elsewhere, but I don't see any discussion re AGPTEK Rocker elsewhere, only requests not to post here :-/  In my defence: if I can get the thing installed and working well enough to have hope it's workable for me, I might well make some patches / PRs, I'm a programmer but not an embedded programmer so I'm clueless with dumping flash memory and whatever else it is you wizards do.

Hi, do you have an agptek rocker or benjie t6?

1. I think that is only useful if you want to build the patched update.upt file yourself or you can download precompiled update.upt file by me.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wKUaxM4Zxs2850x5jeVBLI4DvbtbQTCJ/view

You can get a newer rockbox.zip file from here.

https://build.rockbox.org/

And download the agptek rocker one of course.

2.
Instructions for install:

Extract the folder out of rockbox.zip Take the folder out of that named ".rockbox" and put it directly into your sd card. Put update_rb.upt directly into sd card as well, and once in there, rename it too update.upt

Next turn on player go to the settings of the main operating system player you'll need to choose the update firmware option. It should upgrade and then you'll have a choice to choose rockbox, the original agptek rocker os and some tools. You might need to shut down player and restart to get the rockbox working though.

If you could look into getting the bluetooth functionality working (which currently doesn't work in rockbox only the original firmware) that would be great.

[mowing-parapet]

Hi, do you have an agptek rocker or benjie t6?

AGPTEK Rocker.

1. I think that is only useful if you want to build the patched update.upt file yourself or you can download precompiled update.upt file by me.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wKUaxM4Zxs2850x5jeVBLI4DvbtbQTCJ/view

Thanks -- now I see that I somehow missed that wodz's changes were merged to upstream rockbox, and the docs for what to do with the built files are here:

https://git.rockbox.org/?p=rockbox.git;a=blob;f=tools/agptek_rocker/bootloader_install.sh;h=afe17ab552b5bbc92f4d89c8aacde8809de296dd;hb=HEAD

following on from the instructions here:

https://git.rockbox.org/?p=rockbox.git;a=blob;f=tools/agptek_rocker/README;h=b08d067a7dbb089885b0e2df7f9bdff872dfacb0;hb=HEAD

Does anybody know why update_rb.upt is not hosted on rockbox.org?  Because of licensing issues?  Or just because it has binary blob components?  Licensing would seem odd since AGPTEK appears to be violating the GPL (I wonder what leads them to do that: lack of time seems odd when it's so easy to fork and push on say github).

I guess I should submit a patch to make these install steps easily reachable from the rockbox home page (?)

If you could look into getting the bluetooth functionality working (which currently doesn't work in rockbox only the original firmware) that would be great.

Sorry, though I did do some stuff with bluetooth once (and I remember it being very complicated!), I'm very non-expert at that sort of thing... and I don't have bluetooth headphones ;-)

If I do anything I'm more likely to try and fix whatever little things seem broken...

[WarpEnterprises]

Does anybody know why update_rb.upt is not hosted on rockbox.org?

AFAIK these binaries (from other companies) cannot be hosted here legally.

[gomezz]

If I do anything I'm more likely to try and fix whatever little things seem broken...

That reminds me:  When I am in the Bookmark List screen there does not appear to be any way of going straight back to Main Menu.  I would expect the Left key to do that (as it is the Right key which takes you from the Main Menu to Bookmarks).  At the moment I have to start playing something from Bookmarks, then Pause it and exit to the Main Menu using the Up key.

[speachy]

I just committed a fix for that.

[gomezz]

Magic!  Thanks.

[Njones]

Will  The Rocker ever be included on the Rockbox installer?

[speachy]

Will  The Rocker ever be included on the Rockbox installer?

I believe the problem is that we don't have a portable (ie capable of running on Windows) method of unpacking and re-packing the original AGPTek firmware update images.

OTOH, I think the current process is entirely manual anyway, so even putting aside the portability problem, we're a ways from any supportable solution.

(It's worth mentioning that this same firmware update image technique applies to numerous other devices that have ports in various stages of completion, so there's obvious need for it to be done..)

[wodz]

From technical POV there is viable solution - binary patching. There are portable opensource libs/tools which could be integrated in rockbox intaller. Big question is who will do the work :-)