AIGO EROS Q / AIGO EROS K / IRULU Surfans F20 / AGPTek H3 / HIFI WALKER H2

[speachy]

i guess theres still tons for you to do still in porting rockbox to these players. Any micro updates would be received with love but otherwise I patiently and keenly wait

Yesterday I committed support in the RockboxUtility (no binary builds available as of this writing), complete with patches for the stock firmware images.

A few minutes ago I finished uploading updated bootloader images with some critical fixes for the hotswap and external USB storage support.

It's coming along nicely.

[fossphile]

there due to be £5-7~ cheaper on aliexpress for the 11.11 big aliexpress sale day. ￡82.48 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32826674025.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.6dde3c00P456X6&mp=1

Good time to buy one .

If i buy one, would it be fairly safe to assume your rockport port may well be ready soonish or in few-6 months? Unlikely to get dropped unless you have life criss,etc?

[speachy]

It's ready now.

(I'm not going to claim it's bug-free, but it works well enough for daily use)

[fossphile]

oh goodie 

[fossphile]

Does the bluetooth IC support aptx hd? or does bt codec support depend on the OS not the bluetooth IC firmware?

[fossphile]

Regarding the model you have:
What's the lanyard hole to hang/secure it by, like to use and have? Worth the extra weight? Thanks!

[fossphile]

Unboxing Video, features close up of lanyard/headphone cable hole loop thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOD2emJ80HY

[mariocco]

Hello! I just got a HIFI WALKER H2. The firmware onboard is 1.3.
I tried the manual install but at boot i got "Updater 1.1" and then file error.
I tried with different firmwares and I replaced the sd card.
Could it be that the "Updater" program that loads the firmware on the unit is defective?
Any fix possible?
Thanks
Mario

[speachy]

Hello! I just got a HIFI WALKER H2. The firmware onboard is 1.3.
I tried the manual install but at boot i got "Updater 1.1" and then file error.
Could it be that the "Updater" program that loads the firmware on the unit is defective?

Unfortunately hifiwalker does not have a v1.3 firmware available for download anywhere  (and has not responded to anyone's inquiry about getting it), so we've been unable to figure out what we need to change to generate a working update image.

...Actually I'm pretty sure I know what needs changing, I just don't know what to change it into.

Figuring this out should be pretty straightforward but it will require disassembly so we can get access to the device's serial port.

[mariocco]

Thanks. I also wrote to Hifi Walker to see if a copy of firmware 1.3 can be obtained.
By the way

- Do you think this is a failure of the device or simply a characteristic of firmware 1.3?
- Is there any way to "dump" the 1.3 firmware from the player
- Does anyone know what is the difference between 1.2 and 1.3 firmware? I could try to downgrade to 1.2 and install Rockbox but I do not know what I would be missing and there is no way to revert since the stock 1.3 is not available.

Thanks

[johnb]

That's specific to the 1.3 firmware.
I tried multiple other firmware versions, but did not manage to downgrade.

It's likely that 1.3 is checking the 'name' string inside the update image.

I will probably will go and try various name strings (brute force guesses) in the next few days.

[speachy]

- Do you think this is a failure of the device or simply a characteristic of firmware 1.3?

It could be that there's a hardware incompatibility with firmware v1.3 devices, but more likely they changed the internal name of the player so it can no longer be cross-flashed with the firmware from one of its siblings.

(Speaking of, can you tell me the USB VID/PID of your device?  if you're on linux run 'lsusb' and send the output..)

- Is there any way to "dump" the 1.3 firmware from the player

Not from the outside; Ingenic's tools can only be used to *write* the flash, not read it out.

Taking apart the player one can get access to the serial console, and from a console we can definitely dump things and figure out what needs doing.

- Does anyone know what is the difference between 1.2 and 1.3 firmware? I could try to downgrade to 1.2 and install Rockbox but I do not know what I would be missing and there is no way to revert since the stock 1.3 is not available.

If the existing v1.2 firmware update could be applied onto the v1.3 players, then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

[mariocco]

On Linux, lsusb:
ID C502:0023

On Windows (if useful)
USB\VID_C502&PID_0023&REV_?
USB\VID_C502&PID_0023

Thanks
Mario

[fossphile]

my egos Q came.
firmware version is 1.8
how might i get rockbox on to it?
with stock firmware there's annoying bug where it turns audio output on and off between track change which causes a pop with my tpa316 amp boad and speakers .

[johnb]

See the bottom section of this page: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AIGOErosQK