Fiio M3k

[diegopau]

Done! thank you! I had to use

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getty /dev/ttyS0 115200instead of

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getty /dev/ttyGS0 115200

[daps]

Seems like the Fiio M3 Pro is the new hot budget player. Anyone messing around with it or is it similar to the M3k?

[darkcity]

It is similar to the M3k

https://www.fiio.com/m3pro_comparisons

It uses the same SoC, Ingenic X1000E, so hopefully rockboxable.

It has a larger touch sensitive screen. Battery life isn't as good.

[efqw]

Seems like the Fiio M3 Pro is the new hot budget player. Anyone messing around with it or is it similar to the M3k?

The hardware setup should be sufficiently similar to the M3K, but this is a full touchscreen device. While it is indeed more aesthetically pleasing, I don't think it'll work as well with rockbox as the M3K would.

[LuismaSP89]

The left-right balance does not work for me.

Will be fixed in the next version.

Hi  @Xvortex, do you know when you're going to release the next update? Like other users, the forward/rewind buttons doesn't work, and it's a shame since rockbox works with great performance on the M3K, but can't be used normally because of this bug. Also I can't change the track with the "next/previous" button if the loop option is selected for 1 track.

Thank you for taking your time developing this rockbox for M3K 

[ZoRG172]

Is there any way to make sure that the blocking blocks only the touch buttons, and the mechanical buttons continue to work as in the native firmware?

upd
I understand correctly that without the author of the port XVortex softlock cannot be installed in any way?
From this post https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=51589.0
I'm willing to pay for this function: Softlock Options: Disable Touch (Blocks touch screen buttons like the original (only for touch devices) and for fixing the rewind, but the author does not respond 
As there is a device, it’s useless for me, I’ll have to sell it.

[speachy]

FYI, over the weekend I received the M3K sources from xvortex.

It's probably going to take a week or two but I'm working on getting the patch sliced into more mergable/reviewable chunks.

[chinchin]

That's great news. Thanks so much to you both.

[fossphile]

+1 great news to read. Will be very happy to see skip bug fixed .

[speachy]

+1 great news to read. Will be very happy to see skip bug fixed .

For my reference, what exactly is this "skip bug" and how would one go about recreating it?    (Basically, is it something unique to the m3k, or is it shared with other devices?)

[Thew]

I think “fossphile” is referring to the fact that the two screen buttons for track skipping forward and back don’t work in “vortex's” second Rockbox version. They also don’t work for continuous fast-forward and rewind. They both work correctly in “vortex’s” first Rockbox download.

[Summer Element]

I was excited to find a rockbox port for my brand new Fiio M3k.  The stock firmware lacks features I've become used to on my old (now dead) SanDisk Clip+ which ran rockbox.  So first of all, thanks very much for doing this!!!

I do have one question, though.  Fast Forward and Rewind don't work - pressing/holding the buttons just makes the screen flash rapidly - and I was wondering if there was something I could do to fix it.  Maybe revert to an earlier version or play with the settings somehow?  Since I listen to a lot of audio books and podcasts and often find myself rewinding/relistening, or fast fowarding past boring parts (or advertising), lack of FF/RW is a big deal for me.

I found other reports of FF/RW not working on this forum - someone suggested changing FF/RW Accel to "Very fast", which I did, but it had no effect.  For now I have changed "skip length" from "skip track" to "30s", but that's really irritating when I'm listening to music and want to skip a song/track.

Any advice?

Specifics: Fiio M3K, originally with stock firmware 1.4.3, now with the latest M3K rockbox version (also 1.4.3).

Actually, it can be fixed by changing some setting. Turn to setting-playback settings-fast_forward/rewind and change the step. My M3k has been okay now after that. 

[lubatur]

Turning to: setting > playback settings > fast_forward/rewind didn't work quite well for me, but:
installing Vortex's firmware M3K_v1.3.0_eef591e-190901.zip, found here: http://xvtx.ru/rockbox/download.htm > FiiO M3K > All versions, FF/RW works as usual.
Thanks to member bbame for finding out/testing and informing.

[Njones]

How  do you add additional themes to this update?

[speachy]

With regards to the seek problem, I found and fixed the underlying problem in the vortex code dump -- it was a "Fix" for the LCD not getting shut off properly, but it had some nasty side effects on all of the hosted targets too.

the m3k-specific stuff is close to being mergeable but we need to be able to patch a new bootloader/launcher into the m3k flash image before it'll be of any use to anyone.