Hifi Walker H2 1.8 installation & inverted screen help

[thubol1936]

Hello,

Not sure if I am doing something wrong here, but struggling to get Rockbox working properly on my new H2.

* When I try the installation recommended on the wiki, I get an inverted and back to front screen.

I have tried using a couple of different builds amachronic had posted for someone having a similar issue back in April & May (see links below)

https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,54228.60.html

https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,54850.0.html

* The next best workaround I've tried has been "updating" the native firmware back to 1.5, and then duel booting into Rockbox as suggested in the below post on Reddit, which seems to work.

However, then when I turn off the device, eject the SD and insert the bigger (not formated to FAT32) SD card with all my music on it, it can no longer boot Rockbox.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rockbox/comments/1ats00e/how_do_i_manually_install_on_aigo_eros_q_v151/

Any tips? I feel like I must be doing something wrong here.....

[amachronic]

There's no solution for the inverted screen yet, unfortunately. There are a bunch of hardware variants for this player and we don't have a way to autodetect the right LCD settings, assuming it's possible at all.

I have some patches on Gerrit which allow you to fix this using settings once booted into Rockbox (which I should probably merge), but it isn't ideal. There's no good solution for the bootloader, other than providing different copies of the bootloader that have the right screen configuration hardcoded, and you'd just have to try installing them one by one to find out which one works.

The method you followed on reddit appears to be installing the hosted port. That should work fine as long as the stock firmware can drive the display correctly, and the instructions for installing that are on the wiki in the "Hosted Port" section: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AIGOErosQK

If I understand correctly, you unzipped the hosted version of rockbox to one SD card, then switched to another SD card and now you can't boot rockbox. In that case you just need to unzip rockbox on the new SD card. The hosted port should work with non-FAT32 filesystems.