AGPTEK Rocker

[Njones]

Got it to boot Rockbox once. Changed SD card to one with music on it and now rockbox won't boot. Gives the option for rockbox but says it can't boot.

[speachy]

Got it to boot Rockbox once. Changed SD card to one with music on it and now rockbox won't boot. Gives the option for rockbox but says it can't boot.

The rockbox firmware needs to be present on the inserted SD card.

[Njones]

OK Thanks,
How do you get the car mode to work when it won't play and charge at the same time?
Are more themes going to be available?

[skarbonke]

Are more themes going to be available?

Themes for 128x160 px are suitable:
http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?target=creativezenmozaic

[Njones]

Rockbox stops playing when usb charger is connected. Is there a setting to allow it to play when plugged in?

[skarbonke]

turn on the player, then hold down the center button, connect the charging cable, listen to the music (-;

[Gavsgovenko]

If you can't upgrade benjie t6 to agptek rocker firmware you should download and install older version firmware agptek rocker and then make upgrade to last version. For upgrade  use combination of buttons on/off  and volume down.

[shikotee]

If you can't upgrade benjie t6 to agptek rocker firmware you should download and install older version firmware agptek rocker and then make upgrade to last version. For upgrade  use combination of buttons on/off  and volume down.

None of the AGPtek firmware (1.01, 1.05b, 1.06b, 1.2) from the AGPtek website works with T6's that shipped with 1.08B (using update.upt through the device).

Unless I am mistaken, only underst0rm has managed to do this successfully by opening up the device, soldering access through serial console, and making a date fix.
Unfortunately, this is not something that regular users (including myself) are likely capable of.
I'd be willing to give it a shot (I do have soldering tools), but would pretty much need a detailed step-by-step guide for what to do.

My fingers are crossed that (sometime in the near future) something will be figured out that will allow flashing from the device.

[underst0rm]

Unless I am mistaken, only underst0rm has managed to do this successfully by opening up the device, soldering access through serial console, and making a date fix.

My fingers are crossed that (sometime in the near future) something will be figured out that will allow flashing from the device.

Not true. In the end, the fix is only to change the version string in the image, not something on the player. No need to open up the device.

Under Linux, I can modify the AGPTEK image to flash on the T6 like this:

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# Download imagearchive and extract image
$ wget http://images.agptek.us/Download/AGPTEK_ROCKER\(20171101\).rar
$ unrar e AGPTEK_ROCKER\(20171101\).rar

# Extract the internal image files into the "iso" folder
xorriso -osirrox on -ecma119_map lowercase -indev ROCKER_update.upt -extract / iso

# Open iso/version.txt, Replace ver=1.0.0.0 with ver=2018-10-07T00:00:00+08:00

# Repack into an update image
xorriso -as mkisofs -volid 'CDROM' --norock -output uROCKER_update_1.8_beta.upt iso
The same process works also on a rockbox enabled 1.2 firmware. I'm sure you can also use windows, as long as you find something which can unpack and pack an iso image.

[shikotee]

Confirmed.

I changed the .upt extension to .iso, and extracted the contents to a folder.
I modified Version.txt as explained by underst0rm.
Using IMGBurn, I rebuilt the iso, and changed the extension back to .upt

I was then able to update my 1.08B FW to AGPtek 1.2.
The interface seems pretty much the same - just more colourful.

Will play around with 1.2 today, and will explore installing Rockbox this week-end.

Many thanks to underst0rm for figuring this out!

[WaterWolf]

Hello!

Today I received my AGPTek Rocker today with firmware 1.2 to replace my old Sansa Clip Zip. I've installed the latest nightly rockbox build on it using the update_rb.upt file linked to earlier in this thread. I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but I had to rename the file to just update.upt before the player recognised it as a firmware update.

Anyway, it all appears to be working really well. Thanks for the great work!

I have one question - how do you 'stop' playback on the rocker as opposed to 'pausing' it? I ask this because I have the setting turned on for creating a bookmark when playback is stopped, but I can't actually stop it! On the Clip Zip if I pressed the power button it would 'stop' and jump back to the main menu - on the rocker it locks and unlocks the buttons.

[gomezz]

Press and hold the Play / Pause button seems to stop playback creating a bookmark.

I seem to have a problem though starting playback from a bookmark.  Just takes me to the Delete? Y or N screen?

[WaterWolf]

Yes, pressing and holding play seems to work thanks. I am able to resume playback on a bookmark successfully, at least from the Recent Bookmarks menu. Just select the bookmark and press Play.

[gomezz]

I seem to have a problem though starting playback from a bookmark.  Just takes me to the Delete? Y or N screen?

Realised that it is bookmarks created on a FLAC file that cannot be used to restart playback.  The mpa files of three hour and more radio programmes (extracted from satellite TV recordings on my Freesat PVR) work with Bookmarks properly which is actually what I want them for.  So while it would be nice to have bookmarks usable on my music collection in FLAC format not an essential - I could always go back to the mp3 formatted version of my music library if it did start to annoy me.

[tximista_rissole]

Hey! I've had Rockboxed stuff for a while (about 6 years or so) but I just bought a Rocker (upgraded with 1.2 firmware) the other day since I really wanted a modern Rockbox player.

I was very happy to see it working, let me tell you. However, I've noticed some quirks so I decided to let you know about them.
Bear in mind that this stuff doesn't bug me for the most part, but are mostly nitpicks (from most to least important):

- I have to select Rockbox from a menu every time I turn the player on. Is there some way to have it go straight to Rockbox?
- The player hangs up when trying to leave some of the applications and demos, but more importantly it does so whenever I try to update the database or scan for album art. I have a fairly large music collection (a 200gb microSD card) so I don't know if it's either that or something with the software. So for now I can only play through folders.
- Files don't fully disappear after I delete them.
- I tried to save before quitting "jewels", but it resets to play a new game when you resume.
- A lot of the 128x160 themes didn't fully work, at least for me.
- Doom gets a "Missing Base WAD" error when I try to start it up.

That's all for now. I know that as development goes on these will be ironed out, but I'm just giving some input to what I've found!