replacement battery and replacement HD for iriver H140

[polluxx2006]

hello people!

does anybody know which battery
is suitable for the iriver H140 to get
a higher capacity and which works fine
with the hardware and rockbox?

plus, is it possible to replace the original
drive with a 80GB or 60GB toshiba hard drive?
again, will this work with rockbox?

greets
polluxx

[Mikerman]

Best source for info. on this:  the misticriver.net forums (do a search under them) and the Wiki for the player, which points to replacement parts and model numbers.

And yes, it's possible to replace the hard drive, and the new drive will work fine with Rockbox (once it's loaded on it).  That's why I now have an iHP-160.

[AlexP]

As mikerman says, look at this page:

http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=18911

and this page:

http://www.misticriver.net/wiki/index.php/H1xx_Internal_Battery_Replacement

I have a 60gb hardrive and a 2200 mAh battery in my H140, and I obviously get more space and 25hrs plus runtime with rockbox.

[badbrain88]

Hi all

New here, though may be recognised from other sites (mistic river, head-fi, freeland)

This question is related to this oldish post (I think), but if the mods think not, please put it where it should go (not the bin, thanks).

One of those misticriver links was dead, so here goes...

I kow the HD can be updated in a h340 (to 60 or 80), and know how to do it (roughly) and what drive I would need, my question is mainly to do with Rockbox....

Would the functionality of said upgrade (60 or 80) be on par with the current state of Rockbox on h430? Or would the 60 gig be like the Apple's state of play and the 80 gig, undoable, as it is currently on the Apple?

I have no clue (as you can see) whether or not it's the hardware that's causing the Apple's to be not as "fully-functional" (as can be) as the iriver's OR if it's those particular hdd capacities.

ANY help will be gratefully accpeted and acted upon.

Many thanks all.

[Llorean]

It's only the 80gb iPod 5.5G that has problems, due to hardware aspects unique to that single player. Rockbox does not work on it at all.

If you purchase a 60/80gb drive for your H300 all should be well.

[Mikerman]

I have a 60 gb drive in my (former) iHP-140 (now 160); it functions precisely as before, except that I now have 12 gb of free space left over for use (after I loaded the drive with further material that wouldn't fit onto my old 40 gb drive).

[badbrain88]

Many thanks for the speedy reply.
Looks like I'll be cracking the piggy bank this weekend and heading over to ebay. I think £150-175 all-in is a good enough deal.

Just gotta find a thread on misticriver about partitioning and all that.
Again, many thanks.

[Mikerman]

Best best:  do a search for Swissknife (freeware to use to format the drive and partition if desired); you can also search on username "Mike" (I posted on the topic).

OK, I looked a bit:

http://misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=45181&highlight=swissknife

http://misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=44391&highlight=swissknife

[badbrain88]

Wow, thanks.

Been busy and just checked here before heading to misticriver and...voila.

Very informative and just what I needed/was looking for.

I got an 80 gb for £150 p&p included, should be here next week, I'll let you know how it goes.

Again, many thanks, much appreciated.  

[badbrain88]

One last question please.

Can I just copy my Rockbox files from my old 40 gb to my pc, then do all the Swissknife partitioning/formatting, and then recopy those same Rockbox files back onto the new 80 gb??

Or do I have to something else, like reloading a whole new Rockbox, as in the bootloader and all that?

Will the iriver firmware need to be upgraded to the 1.29k and reflashed with Rockbox, and will I need to add the iriver .hex file to the new drive?

Sorry, more than one question, but I just want to make sure, thanks for any help.

[pilot000]

Just copy all the stuff from the old 40GB drive to the PC HD and then replace the disk in the DAP. After that you have to partitioning/formatting the new drive with FAT32. Then copy the whole stuff to the "new" H160.
There's no reflash needed. This is still in the ROM of the player.
If you open your player, it makes sense to replace the battery with a e.g. 2200mAh one.
Good luck

[badbrain88]

Thanks very much.

I'll post when done.

[badbrain88]

Well, it's been done and its a success!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Just used swissknife and all was good. Rockbox is twice as nice now (based on gb's)

Many thanks to pilot000, mikerman, and Llorean for the advice and tips. Very much appreciated.