AGPTEK Rocker

[Pingouin]

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.

BT support would be great: the OF only connects using a default key without the option to change it, and that's not the key my BT speaker expects, so I can't connect to it Massive caveat to anyone planning to purchase a Rocker to use BT on OF!

[mowing-parapet]

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.

So I tried this:

0. Boot with old SD card (the one I used to flash rockbox): boots fine
1. Remove SD card, but do not replace it with another one -> after selecting Rockbox from the boot menu, I see "Cannot boot Rockbox"
2. On a new 64 Gb card, sudo mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sdd1 , plug that in to the player -> same result at boot as with no SD card
3. On that same 64 Gb card, sudo mkfs.fat -I -F 32 /dev/sdd , plug that in to the player -> same result at boot as with no SD card

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

I'll try that after dding off the current data in case I mess it up.

[Njones]

The rockbox file needs to be on the sd card that is currently in the player. If you switch sd cards you must put rockbox on the new card.

[mowing-parapet]

I used dd to make an image of the original micro SD that I used for flashing the rockbox, which was working for me with restricted space.  Then I dd'd that to the new micro SD card.  With that card in, it booted.  Then I resized the FAT filesystem using:

sudo fatresize -p -s 60900Mi /dev/sdd

Now it shows 49 Gb free -- not sure why still that small (I expected something between 54 and 59 Gb), but it's a lot better than just a few Gb as before!

[mowing-parapet]

The rockbox file needs to be on the sd card that is currently in the player. If you switch sd cards you must put rockbox on the new card.

Thanks -- what do you mean by "The rockbox file"?  Does some data need to be in a particular location in the filesystem, or is it perhaps just the presence of the directory named ".rockbox"?  Or are you referring to following the flashing process again?  Or maybe something else?

[saratoga]

You need to have the contents of the . rockbox folder on your device or you won't have rockbox installed.

[Njones]

Exactly

[Gomas]

Are suggestions about BT UI being accepted still?

[wodz]

Sure. Maybe good ui design will motivate me to work on this.

[Gomas]

Well, I usually like simple/minimal UIs, so I guess a switch for On/Off, then another one with Pair/Unpair and a 3rd option for listing devices. Then inside of this 3rd one, with a list which if you select it, it will pair it. Something like:

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Bluetooth
- Active        [On/Off]
- Sync          [On/Off]
- Devices
        -Device 1
        -Device 2
        -Device 3

Sync would be for something sort for pairing, if this makes any sense (English not my mother language).
Sync [Off] just unpairs the actual device but don't forget it, I think it is how the actual BT on Benjie works.
Selecting a device for the list tries to pair it and forgets the previous one.

[darkcity]

Can Bluetooth output to more than one device? If so then each device that has been Sync'd would need [on/off] option too?

Can device also send or/and receive files over BT ?

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Regarding Benjie T6. This video reports a 'crack' between songs with OF and APGTek firmware. Does RockBox solve this problem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOuAkLJC_Sk

[darkcity]

I wonder if the Benjie X1 uses similar hardware to K1/T6 (other than the touch screen interface)?

https://www.aliexpress.com/i/4000159912873.html

[ddscentral]

I sadly destroyed my old Fuze Plus when trying to replace the (totally dead) battery with an 18650. Since I do like to have a separate device for music playback, I bought a Benjie T6 (same hardware as the Rocker) from Aliexpress as a replacement. I really don't want to go through all 25 pages of this thread. What's the overall status of Rockbox support on this device ? Do the plugins work ? Are there any major issues (except for Bluetooth) ?

[darkcity]

I use a Benjie T6 and can say it mostly works. Some of the plugins crash out with 'segmentation fault' type errors.

It isn't a polished port though with some quirks - the worst being the keymappings. For example, return to previous menu is sometimes mapped as 'up' other times as 'left' and the 'volume' buttons are used for somethings.  Using the text entering dialog is weird 'up' maps to down row and vice versa.

[krncnr]

I wonder if the Benjie X1 uses similar hardware to K1/T6 (other than the touch screen interface)?

https://www.aliexpress.com/i/4000159912873.html

Doesn't seem like it.

"AFAIK the Benjie X1 has the same internals as ruizu x20 but with metal body." - https://www.head-fi.org/threads/obscure-chinese-daps.720512/post-13207567