FiiO M3K Install (Native port)

[Njones]

I chose Replace and that worked. On another note, The car play mode turns on and starts playing when the ignition is turned on but doesn't turn off when the ignition is turned off.

[7o9]

Replace, otherwise you keep your old version files.

[7o9]

amachronic: does it make sense to reinstall the bootloader after all recent nand/spl changes?

[amachronic]

amachronic: does it make sense to reinstall the bootloader after all recent nand/spl changes?

Updating isn't necessary, there's no new features or bugfixes. Generally speaking, I don't advise using development bootloaders; they may be broken for some reason because I don't test them regularly.

[doomsquirrel]

Excellent work. Thank you very much to the author(s) for making this M3K RockBox port. It is literally the main reason I got one of these players.

I notices a minor issue. I like setting the "Enable EQ" to the Top Quickscreen. When toggled on/off from the Quickscreen, it does not always work, and there's a seemingly random length delay when it does work. Sometimes it changes in a couple of seconds, sometimes it takes over 15 seconds - if it changes at all.

As said, it is a minor issue, and I can live with it as is. Just letting the dev(s) know, should this be important enough to be worked on.

[amachronic]

Thanks for reporting, it turned out that setting was totally broken in the quickscreen. Should be fixed now in the latest dev build.

[doomsquirrel]

Thanks for reporting, it turned out that setting was totally broken in the quickscreen. Should be fixed now in the latest dev build.

Works great now. Thank you for addressing this, and with such speed too.

[praashek]

Is it possible to add the link for the latest .rockbox build to the TOP post //also I recommend to add the info about the step that you HAVE TO copy the .rockobox folder to the SD-card as this is not mentioned there

Also there is many times mentioned "hold the Play button (while booting)", but there is no "play button" on the M3K. Do You mean the upper "Power/lock button", or is there any other button reffered as "play"?

[vitt13]

Also there is many time mentioned "hold the Play button (while booting)", but there is no "play button" on the M3K. Do You mean the upper "Power/lock button", or is there any other button reffered as "play"?

Take a look at the attached picture

[praashek]

Also there is many time mentioned "hold the Play button (while booting)", but there is no "play button" on the M3K. Do You mean the upper "Power/lock button", or is there any other button reffered as "play"?

Take a look at the attached picture

OK, so officially //refering to english manual here// it is the "Confirm button".

[vitt13]

Play/Pause toggle symbol is right under button

[praashek]

Play/Pause toggle symbol is right under button

That is true, but the official manual is reffering to it as "Confirm button" :] And to be honest I havent seen that symbol just because I have the player in the rubber case all the time.

[projeKct]

You can access the FiiO recovery mode by holding Play and Vol+ while booting, in case you need to update the FiiO firmware. Be warned that updating with the FiiO recovery mode will erase the Rockbox bootloader and you will need to install it again using jztool.

Hi, first post here. Thanks for all your work with Rockbox and the M3K.

I followed all instructions, and I can boot in Rockbox by pressing Power, or I can boot in FiiO mode by pressing Play+Power.

But when I press Play+VolUp+Power, I doesn't boot in FiiO recovery mode. I only see the button light but the LCD remains off.

Is my player bricked?

Thanks for you help!

[amachronic]

I followed all instructions, and I can boot in Rockbox by pressing Power, or I can boot in FiiO mode by pressing Play+Power.

But when I press Play+VolUp+Power, I doesn't boot in FiiO recovery mode. I only see the button light but the LCD remains off.

Is my player bricked?

Thanks for you help!

The first and simplest thing I would suggest is make sure you're pressing Play+VolUp together, and keep holding them down, until the Fiio recovery screen shows. And make sure you are NOT holding down VolDown by accident because that will override any other keys. If it's truly not working, then read on.

If for some reason some part of your flash got corrupted/wiped, I have a full flash dump you could recover with. Unfortunately I don't have anything rigged up to easily dump or restore bits & pieces of the flash. I can spin up something but it may take a couple of weeks.

If you really need to use the Fiio recovery, and you took a bootloader backup (fiiom3k-boot.bin), then you can restore it using the RB bootloader. That will restore the Fiio bootloader and should let you access the recovery. But this will only work if the rest of the flash is intact, which you can't easily determine yet.

[7o9]

Is my player bricked?

It sounds like you might be touching volume down and end up in USB boot mode. Then the button light is on and the LCD remains off.

But if you hold down power again to turn it off at this time until the button lights turn off, and then power again to turn it on again normally it still works?

I might be reading your post wrong, but it sounds like you can get in Rockbox (power) and the original firmware (power+play) but just not in the original firmware recovery.