AGPTEK Rocker

[Dromedary]

The firmware version is 1.31 beta.
There is at least one more user with the same/similar problem. They were able to modify the firmware iso (update.upt). I tried to do the same multiple times, but was unsuccessful.
   http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,52907.15.html

I suspect that if you were to get a player with firmware 1.31 beta you have non-updateable palyer on your hands. You will not be able to update to any other firmware version (neither AGPTEK's own, nor Rockbox).

Edit: see solution in following posts.

[Milardo]

Hi, can you post a picture of the rocker and it showing the 1.31 firmware in the settings/about of the player? Maybe you can try this firmware?

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/the-shenzhen-benjie-bj-t6-agptek-rocker.834797/

https://mega.nz/#!yygFDA5S!iLNBI5ypzPB37BXyRVeT1dH-ygPMKcz4EIzpYRNa9IQ

I'm not sure if the person in the your link was able to solve it

[Dromedary]

Here is the photo attached
Firmware version 1.31 beta

[Milardo]

Ddi you try that firmware in the link i provided? If it doesn't work, it is possible you might ask agptek about it.

[Dromedary]

Thank you!!!

The update on the first link (I mean AGPTEK's own v1.2 update) failed, but the second one named "update_rb_new_T6_model.upt" worked!
1. I copied update_rb_new_T6_model.upt to the player and renamed to update.upt
2. Copied to the player the .rockbox folder from the Rocker development build.

I now have AGPTEK firmware version 1.2.
Goodbye 1.31 beta.
I suspect firmware 1.31 beta sees itself as newer and does not allow installing any version that presents itself as 1.2.

Yay, I have a Rockbox player

[Milardo]

Your welcome, just reply if you need more help getting rockbox itself installed. The first link was a general link to the page where i found that second link which links to the firmware you used.

[wodz]

This simply means Agptek caught up with Benji and updater requires new format of version string. There was thread here about it a year or so ago.

[Pigoletto]

Thanks, Dromedary and Milardo! I had exactly the same 1.31 Beta problem and using the second link provided by Milardo I seem to have been able to downgrade to firmware 1.2

Now I just need to work out how to add Rockbox, as it won't allow me to boot into it. I'll get reading the rest of the thread, though.

Very grateful!

Best,

P

p.s. if anybody can tell me what Rockbox stuff I now need to add the help would be very welcome. I'm getting on for elderly, and this stuff makes my brain spin... I got the Rockbox folder from the links on the AGPtek page (http://www.agptek.com/index.php/blog/agptek-rocker-firmware-download-2/#) and extracted it to the root directory of the card. I also put the firmware update there (as provided by Milardo above). I went to Settings and told it to update firmware. It did, and it's showing 1.2. However, when I start the MP3 player and it offers me Rockbox and I choose it I get "Cannot boot Rockbox".

I suspect I may be missing something from Rockbox site. Can anybody explain?

Update: Whoop! I think it's working In case anybody else comes here looking, what I did was go to the Rockbox development build page (http://build.rockbox.org/) and download the one for the AGPtek. I then extracted the folder from the zip file and copied it to root directory of card. The version I had from AGPtek page was already there so when it asked whether I should overwrite files I said 'yes'. When finished I restarted player, chose Rockbox and it worked

This is all a little bittersweet because I bought Bluetooth headphones y/day not realising they wouldn't work with Rockbox. Duh... Not all bad, though, because dual boot means I can boot into the original if I want to use them.

Thank you, all. The internet is wonderful

[wodz]

To all interested in BT support, as I stated loooong time ago, please propose mockup of BT ui. I am really bad at ui design and this pushes me off from implementing bt support in rockbox.

[bahus]

I am really bad at ui

Can you give us something UI-less for tests if it's easier to you? As a start it can read config from file I guess (xml or ini or whatever is easier to use from rockbox).
It would also be cool to have this BT API be exposed in lua (for now I think of 5 methods something like:  1) string[] ScanForDevices(), 2) SwitchBt(bool enable), 3) ConnectTo(string device), bool 4) IsBtEnabled(), 5) string GetConnectedDevice()).

please propose mockup of BT ui

I also suck at UI design but let's start from something. So my proposal for Bluetooth sub-menus:

1) Connected Devices
-> 1.1-n)List of connected devices

2) Scan for Devices
-> 2.1-n) List of available devices

3) Enable BT

Entering Connected Devices should show list of recently connected devices (preferably last used device should be on top). On device select we should try to connect to this device (and enable BT if disabled). It should also be possible to remove device from this list.

Entering Scan for Devices should enable Bluetooth (if disabled) and show list of available devices.

Currently connected device should be somehow marked in both  lists  (can be as simple as prefixing/suffixing name with "*" like "* Device").

Enable BT - ON/OFF switch.

[almog1006]

I haven't been here in about 3 months.. What is the progress with the "rocker"?
Was the option of the Bluetooth added to the Rockbox firmware?

[Frankenpod]

I haven't been here in about 3 months.. What is the progress with the "rocker"?
Was the option of the Bluetooth added to the Rockbox firmware?

My guess would be the post two posts up from yours might be relevant.

[leachim6]

Thank you!!!

The update on the first link (I mean AGPTEK's own v1.2 update) failed, but the second one named "update_rb_new_T6_model.upt" worked!
1. I copied update_rb_new_T6_model.upt to the player and renamed to update.upt
2. Copied to the player the .rockbox folder from the Rocker development build.

I now have AGPTEK firmware version 1.2.
Goodbye 1.31 beta.
I suspect firmware 1.31 beta sees itself as newer and does not allow installing any version that presents itself as 1.2.

Yay, I have a Rockbox player

I got a Rocker today from amazon[1]

I've tried everything on this thread to get it to work, including all of milardo's upt files.
No matter what I do I still get "v_v failed". It has FW 1.31 Beta.

Does anyone have a working solution at this time?

I have searched for "update_rb_new_T6_model.upt" of which you speak. There is no sign of this "update_rb_new_T6_model.upt" file on the web, google turns up 1 single result which is this thread. Can you provide this "update_rb_new_T6_model.upt" file?

Thank you to all! I had to give up on Rockbox when my last Sansa Fuze (og) died and I was really hoping to get it going on this player

EDIT: I'm super thick, I've read this entire 20 page thread multiple times and some how missed milardo's very helpful post:

https://mega.nz/#!yygFDA5S!iLNBI5ypzPB37BXyRVeT1dH-ygPMKcz4EIzpYRNa9IQ

Is the link you need!

It works!

Thank you everyone

[1]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PPMT251/

[mowing-parapet]

I've been using Rockbox on the Rocker for months now (it's just vastly better than the software on any mp3 player I've had for years).  However, the 64 Gb micro SD card that I installed it on shows up only as a 2.4 Gb partition.

Any clues how to get access to the rest of the space without breaking rockbox boot (whether by reinstalling or not)? I'm on linux, and it shows up as /dev/sdd (not /dev/sdd1 or whatever). I assume at least part of rockbox is on the card itself rather than in on-board device storage, because booting with a different card fails.

[speachy]

I've been using Rockbox on the Rocker for months now (it's just vastly better than the software on any mp3 player I've had for years).  However, the 64 Gb micro SD card that I installed it on shows up only as a 2.4 Gb partition.
Any clues how to get access to the rest of the space without breaking rockbox boot (whether by reinstalling or not)? I'm on linux, and it shows up as /dev/sdd (not /dev/sdd1 or whatever). I assume at least part of rockbox is on the card itself rather than in on-board device storage, because booting with a different card fails.

The "bootloader" is in the onboard flash, and it loads rockbox off the SD card.  All you need to do is reformat the card as fat32.

Alternatively, since you're using Linux, try firing up 'gparted' and just resize the partitions.