Emerging issue / mystery: "Result: 0" freeze: OutletM3 batch

[Zeke]

Linus:

Another Update:

I have PM’ed both rickeyjt and watchpocket to test the SW fix on their H140s.

I asked them to post the information here directly so that you can get the information.

Rickey has already tried it, and confirmed that he can get his player to boot up!!!  He did mention that the Recording Enhancement Package did not work – I don’t have any further details on that but hopefully he will post the issues here.

The REP is important to me for live recording, so if you could verify that it works I would be grateful.

Watchpocket said that he would try to install the daily build today while he’s at work (this is where he has a PC) and I have asked him to post his findings here as well.

I’m not sure who else is still seeking resolution to the issue – I only contacted those folks who had PM’ed me on the issue.

Thanks Everyone.

Zeke

[Llorean]

Did he compile the REP himself, because if not his build could simply date from before the fix was in.

[watchpocket]

Linus wrote:

> Please try the latest SVN build and see if my fix solves the problem for the rest of you.


It's going to take me several hours tonight to fully charge my unit, and I will probably install the new build tomorrow.

In any case I'll be doing that asap and reporting here what happens.

Thanks for the heads-up, Zeke, and thanks Linus for your painstaking efforts.

[Zeke]

Did he compile the REP himself, because if not his build could simply date from before the fix was in.

Hi Llorean:

Hmmm, I'm afraid I don't know the answer to this.  I did a little research on the REP and I see that it is a patch.  (Is it still a patch, or did it make it into the regular build?)  The thread is 45 pages long, so of course I did not read all of it, but it seems you either have to run Mmm's build or patch your own --   This could be the reason  it didn't work?

Rickey, please give details on the problems you encountered.

Anyway, please continue to forgive my ignorance -- as much as I want to know what I'm doing I haven't run rockbox yet let alone understand how it works.  When I get my H160 back I'll take more responsibility for my gross ignorance!

Thanks again all, I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Zeke

[Mmmm]

If you run my build of the REP then it won't work on your outletMP3 players as the build needs updating to the latest SVN. The patch won't work at the moment either as it is out of date since the settings update. But I will eventually get around to sorting this out...

[Zeke]

Good Morning Mmmm:

Thanks for the clarification.  Another Question:

Last night I read about 20 pages of the REP thread, and from what I understand the bulk of the original recording enhancements have made their way into the regular build -- is this true?

By the way, I'm really excited get my player back so I can try out this code you've developed for us music junkies -- thank you!

out

Zeke

[watchpocket]

YES !!!!

VICTORY !!!

At long last, Rockbox has loaded successfully on my OutletMP3-bought h140.

The Eagle has landed !!!

At first, it didn't load, but it also did not freeze with the "Result: 0" message.

(It didn't freeze at all, it just went to the iriver OS).  That, it turns out, was because the ".rockbox" folder and the "rockbox.iriver" file were both themselves inside another folder.

I removed that folder so that the above-mentioned 2 items were in the root folder, and voila -- Rockbox.

This is the FIRST TIME since I bought my h140 last June (from OutletMP3, of course) that Rockbox has loaded and didn't stall out with the "Result: 0" error message.

I can't tell everyone how happy this makes me and, of course, will make Zeke and anyone else who bought their h140s from Outle tand who were or are having the same problem.

And we have Linus to thank for investigating and fixing the problem.

THANK YOU, LINUS !!!

(I gather that the fix itself was trivial once the problem was actually identified.  It was identifying the problem that appears to have been not-so-trival.)

Thanks again, Linus, for your work on this and your solution-fix.

I'll post a follow-up report after I've played with my Rockbox-installed h140 a bit and familiarized myself with the Rockbox system and its workings.

[Zeke]

Hay All:

That's great news!!  To recap, both Rickeyjt and Watchpocket can run rockbox on the troublesome OUTLET MP3 H140s.  This is a fine day, and again I'd like to thanks all involved for the hard work.

Linus, thanks so much for your time we know that you are busy and I don't know how to make it up to you!  If you're ever in California let me know.

In other news, Rickeyjt sent me a PM regarding my questions.  He was able to run the version with the fix on his Outlet MP3 player but not the REP build -- this makes sense based on what Llorean and Mmmm stated above.

In short Rickey, you'll need to patch the daily build for the REP functionality or wait until Mmmm rebuilds with this H140 fix.

Well, that's all for now.  Thanks again to all, I can't wait for the first show I hit with my H140!!

out,

Zeke

[rickeyjt]

I am now trying to determine if I have a defective h140 outletmp3 unit.  When I originally got it it seemed to record ok with the iriver firmware however I never used the unit because I couldn't use rockbox and I had a backup h140 to use.

The outletmp3 unit now loads rockbox and I used it a few times to record but soon I started having problems.  The playback was full of loud scratchy static.  The screen looked like it froze many times.  It would record for 40 minutes then drop out and pick up recording 20 minutes later.  the gain control started displaying wild numbers like -876 or just way out of normal range and the agc number status would be offset by just as much.  

Several times I have seen these messages on the screen:
I04: IllInstr at 3104782C
I05: DivX0 at 10000302
I04: IllInstru at 95B41400

I removed rockbox and reflashed the firmware with iriver 1.66.  Recording does produce the scratchy static now too.

Don't know what to make of this and wondered how everyone else is doing.  I will take it apart and swap hard drives between the two units and let you know what I find.