AGPTEK Rocker

[lebellium]

I finally rockboxed my Rocker and checked the main points:

- Doom: freeze when selecting "play game"
- Duke Nukem 3D: "buildsdl: failed to ..."
- Quake: "segmentation fault"
- Wolfenstein 3D: works 

[ZoRG172]

Hello. I'm using a Benjie BJ-T6 with Rockbox build "edbdefa" from 10.18. The player often does not play after pause. The play \ pause icon changes when you press play but does not start playing, the play timer does not move, but rewind works. Selecting other files does not help, just reboot the device.

[speachy]

Hello. I'm using a Benjie BJ-T6 with Rockbox build "edbdefa" from 10.18. The player often does not play after pause. The play \ pause icon changes when you press play but does not start playing, the play timer does not move, but rewind works. Selecting other files does not help, just reboot the device.

With the absolute latest builds (ie 2020-10-24 or newer) this should work properly once again.

As an added bonus, the clicking on track changes should be much reduced.

[ZoRG172]

Hello. I'm using a Benjie BJ-T6 with Rockbox build "edbdefa" from 10.18. The player often does not play after pause. The play \ pause icon changes when you press play but does not start playing, the play timer does not move, but rewind works. Selecting other files does not help, just reboot the device.

With the absolute latest builds (ie 2020-10-24 or newer) this should work properly once again.
As an added bonus, the clicking on track changes should be much reduced.

Installed build ec2a34b from 10.24.20. It got really bad)). Now if you pause and wait until the screen goes out. And then press the play button, I get 100% playback stuck.
Now I put the old build from 12/10/2020 with him there is no such thing.

[speachy]

I sent my rocker off to another developer so I can't test on that device, but I'm unable to recreate this on any of the other Ingenic targets that share the same platform and ALSA driver.  Pause playback, wait for the screen to go out, hit play, the screen wakes up and the playback resumes fine.

The Rocker only differs in that it mutes/unmutes the analog path when playback is paused -- even if that's somehow broken now, the play timer would still move.

So there's probably some other underlying problem here.

[speachy]

So there's probably some other underlying problem here.

The short version is that there's a bug in AGPTek's Linux kernel.  A workaround for this specific issue is in place but the underlying problem remains.

(basically, their kernel isn't properly properly serializing access to the shared i2c bus that both the backlight control and external audio codec are connected to.  Nothing we can do about this)

[ZoRG172]

But I'm testing the 135b3f6 build from 10/12/2020 for the second day. There is no bug at all.

[speachy]

But I'm testing the 135b3f6 build from 10/12/2020 for the second day. There is no bug at all.

Please use 2020/10/26.

We're at the point where we have to pick which OS/platform/kernel bugs are left exposed.

[ZoRG172]

I'm testing build 2020/10/26. The bug does not appear.

[fredex]

I note that Amazon is now selling AGP Rocker V2, and that they claim good RockBox compatibility.

Has anyone here tried Rockbox on that player?

Thanks!

[speachy]

I note that Amazon is now selling AGP Rocker V2, and that they claim good RockBox compatibility.

I bleieve the v1 and v2 are completely identical other than the case.

(That said, I don't see any actually purchasable on Amazon [US])

[bahus]

I've seen that some work is in progress to make Bluetooth work. That's very cool. Want to share some thoughts about it:
1) Would be cool to have option to connect Bluetooth headphones as remote only (so music is still playing via 3.5 out but you can control playback play/pause/next/prev... via  Bluetooth headphones buttons). Ideally it should be possible to quickly switch from remote to headphone mode. Maybe via ability to save it as separate profiles (something like MyHeadphonesAsRemote and MyHeadpones in list of connected devices)

2) Original firmware allows to connect your phone(or other media device) to Rocker as audio receiver. So you can play music on phone and listen it via Rocker. Would be cool to have this feature covered in rockbox too. Useful if you player lives in car connected to aux. Unfortunately it's not possible to control playback via Rocker buttons in this mode (is it hardware or firmware flaw? Hope it would possible in rockbox)

P.S. Also it's possible to remove connected device  (unpair)  in original firmware by pressing right button in list of Connected Devices (saw statement in IRC that it's not possible)

[bahus]

Is it possible to boot rockbox from path other than .rockbox folder in root of SD card? I see it's possible for sansa players:
https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=51844.0

by putting path in rockbox_main.<playername> file. Can this functionality be ported for Rocker too? I have Xduoo X3 and Rocker devices and it would really be cool to be able to quickly switch SD card from one to another player and still have working rockbox on it.

[emagon4523]

Recently bought an AGPTEK M16SB in hopes of a Rockbox port/build-

It's really hard to pin down the AGPTEK models and what is rockboxable.

It seems this model isn't but at A02/Rocker from AGPTEK is Rockboxable.
A02/Rockers seem to be impossible to find. Have seen a couple places to order but not 100% sure I'll be getting the exact device.

I was about to trash the M16 because I can't rockbox it - until I realized it might be better than a Rockboxed player - because the stock OS works with Bluetooth!

I picked up a couple of them from WalMart for $35 here-
https://www.walmart.com/ip/AGPTEK-Metal-Lossless-MP3-Player-Music-Player-with-with-Speaker-FM-Radio-Bluetooth-4-0-16GB-Black/554634257

I'm a Rockbox junkie and have been bummed that my Sansa died and have been dying for a new Rockboxable device.
I tried the XDUOO and a few others - but this stock $35 AGPTEK is working out pretty well.

biggest gripe is the font size and lack of customization.

check it out if you're looking for a new player

[Telehubis]

Have you tried Rockboxing A02? Based on forum info it has too little memory for Rockbox.