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Rockbox General Discussion / does anyone have the datasheet of tcc7801? i am studying the cowon d2.
« Last post by gargoyles2 on April 05, 2024, 12:53:55 PM »does anyone have the datasheet of tcc7801? i am studying the cowon d2.
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New Ports / Re: Resources for Telechips TCC890x: TCC8900 & TCC8902
« Last post by gargoyles2 on April 05, 2024, 10:39:29 AM »do you have the datasheet of the tcc7801? I am learning the Cowon d2.
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Rockbox Utility / Re: Both versions of the Rockbox utility for linux do not work on Mint. What next?
« Last post by Dook on April 05, 2024, 09:08:22 AM »I've never gotten the appimage version to fully work, I usually recommend resorting to the 1.4.1 version as it doesn't use appimage. Though do run it from the command line with sudo, as it seems to not have relevant permissions without.
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Rockbox Utility / Both versions of the Rockbox utility for linux do not work on Mint. What next?
« Last post by grey38 on April 05, 2024, 12:35:52 AM »I have used Rockbox a long time ago on Trisquel, which is based on Ubuntu and it worked great. I am now on Mint these days, which is also ubuntu based, and nothing works.
My old player broke, I got a new one, I went to install Rockbox on it so I went to get the Rockbox tool. I see that under 'Linux' the tool comes as something called "appimage" and since I don't know what that is I assume it's for some other kind of system. I try to find something for Debian-Ubuntu type system. I find the ppa, I follow the instructions to add the ppa. I enter the command to install it from the ppa. It does not work. I get this error:
Cannot add PPA: ''This PPA does not support jammy''.
Okay, that's out of my scope. But my point is that the Debian-Ubuntu version of the Rockbox tool does not currently work on Mint, which is kind of the most popular Debian-Ubuntu family system.
So now I try the other thing. I google around and find out that "appimage" is a program to install programs. Okay. I find some instructions to install the program that installs the program. It goes fine. I open the rockbox appimage file. It opens. It checks for the current version of Rockbox but it never gets past 'checking...' so it seems the rockbox tool cannot get to the internet. I plug in my new device (iPod mini gen 1) and it does autodetect it. I tried to install rockbox and it fails before it can even try to download anything. It instead shows three errors of "Permission Denied" and doesn't give me any more information than that. I've attached a screenshot to prove it.
I honestly have no idea what to do here. One version can't be installed and the other version requires you to install a program to install the program and It's completely broken on install.
I still love Rockbox because it's so much better than the default OS on an ipod, but what do I do here? How do I install Rockbox Utility on Linux Mint?
My old player broke, I got a new one, I went to install Rockbox on it so I went to get the Rockbox tool. I see that under 'Linux' the tool comes as something called "appimage" and since I don't know what that is I assume it's for some other kind of system. I try to find something for Debian-Ubuntu type system. I find the ppa, I follow the instructions to add the ppa. I enter the command to install it from the ppa. It does not work. I get this error:
Cannot add PPA: ''This PPA does not support jammy''.
Okay, that's out of my scope. But my point is that the Debian-Ubuntu version of the Rockbox tool does not currently work on Mint, which is kind of the most popular Debian-Ubuntu family system.
So now I try the other thing. I google around and find out that "appimage" is a program to install programs. Okay. I find some instructions to install the program that installs the program. It goes fine. I open the rockbox appimage file. It opens. It checks for the current version of Rockbox but it never gets past 'checking...' so it seems the rockbox tool cannot get to the internet. I plug in my new device (iPod mini gen 1) and it does autodetect it. I tried to install rockbox and it fails before it can even try to download anything. It instead shows three errors of "Permission Denied" and doesn't give me any more information than that. I've attached a screenshot to prove it.
I honestly have no idea what to do here. One version can't be installed and the other version requires you to install a program to install the program and It's completely broken on install.
I still love Rockbox because it's so much better than the default OS on an ipod, but what do I do here? How do I install Rockbox Utility on Linux Mint?
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Olympus - Installation/Removal / Re: M: Robe 500i hangs on white screen when try to boot Rockbox
« Last post by Bilgus on April 04, 2024, 05:48:02 PM »If that build works for you hit us up here with details and later on IRC when you have some time to test builds
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Olympus - Installation/Removal / Re: M: Robe 500i hangs on white screen when try to boot Rockbox
« Last post by cereal_killer on April 04, 2024, 05:17:23 PM »sorry to quote you out of the blue, but perhabs you could reupload your rockbox build somewhere?
sure: https://www.file-upload.net/download-15301871/Rockbox_Olympus_mRobe.zip.html (beware of ads where to click on this website)
I hope everything works. Some time ago, I tried to swap the storage too, but caan't remember if I have ever succeeded or which adapter I used. What do you use?
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Olympus - Installation/Removal / Re: M: Robe 500i hangs on white screen when try to boot Rockbox
« Last post by multiwirth on April 04, 2024, 04:03:26 PM »I had a look and found an old but working rockbox build on my mRobe. I uploaded the content of the player containing the build and the system files here: https://www.file-upload.net/download-14970909/Rockbox_Olympus_mRobe.zip.html (use at your own risk).Hi cereal_killer,
sorry to quote you out of the blue, but perhabs you could reupload your rockbox build somewhere?
After i found a working storage solution for my m:robe, i now figured out that basically all current rockbox builds are broken.
Your help would be very much appreciated
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Starting Development and Compiling / Re: Sansa E200V2 Bootloader is broken in master
« Last post by Bilgus on April 03, 2024, 03:44:27 PM »Out of curiosity I tested this no thumb build without `usb_storage_disconnect` fix. Still doesn't boot. So it doesn't look like some alignment issue to me. `usb_storage_disconnect` is the cause...
agreed -- thatd be our smoking gun
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Other - Installation/Removal / Re: Installing rockbox on HiFiMAN HM-603 Slim - boot hangs
« Last post by Infine on April 01, 2024, 03:03:36 AM »I was contacted by another person having the same problem via email
Unfortunately there's no contact information to get to the person in question (email address is the rockbox noreply robot), I'm posting it here hoping we can get in touch somehow.
So, it was a long time ago, and I kinda forgor what I did, and I don't have the device at hand right now
BUT I searched around a bit and have found
1) https://github.com/Rockbox/rockbox with build instructions
2) Rockbox 3.13 sources in my downloads folder.
3) Several built images dated 2016.03.07. It's possible there were other, later images, deleted during some cleanup. There's no image dated march 8 or 9 (that being said, posting time can be an artifact of a holiday). Some of those might be the one you need. Or might be not.
4) I can get to the device by the weekend, but I'm not sure of its current state (haven't used it for a couple of years because mechanical damage, but should be alive unless SD card died to bitrot).
I skimmed through the ./tools/configure.sh script, and it seems this is the default settings for the HM-603 build target (via --target= option)
As you can see, the default memory size is 16mb
You can change the configure script directly to set the ram size to whatever might work (4mb in my case)
Or there is --ram= configure option that most likely achieves the same result.
So our options are
1) Try to build the image yourself with the instructions provided in the git repo. The preferable way because you can get the latest and greatest version that is not outdated by 10 years and doesn't contain any extra malware introduced by yours truly.
2) Wait until caturday when I can get to the thingy and try to get the working firmware off the SD card. Assuming it's still alive.
3) I can just throw random firmware files at you, starting with the latest built, and we'll pray one of them will work.
2 and 3 are bad options because where's guarantee I won't give you an infected firmware that will randomly shuffle your collection ID3 tags (of course it will be a timebomb that activates a month later).
Anyway, if we are to move anywhere with this, some way to contact each other would be useful.
EDIT: I are retardenings. I confused original firmware images with teh rockbox builds. I found an actual build directory with several built rockbox images, including the definitely specified 4mb and 8mb ones.
EDIT2: I have the device, but it lacks the SD card with the software. So I can either give you whatever builds I've found or try building one from scratch.
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Hello!
My name is Eugene and I found your account on Rockbox forums while trying to install Rockbox firmware on HM-603. Yeah, it's a really old stuff and your wrote there a years ago, but the problem is still actual.
It seems that my HM has the same problem with a wrong display type so there is a white screen after loading Rockbox. Here https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=51233.0 you wrote that you reconfigure the script and successfully built a 4MB build. As I understand, it works well and you could install Rockbox firmware on your HM-603, right? Could you please share configured build in this case? That topic on rockbox forum was literally the only one possible solution of problem that I found.
Unfortunately there's no contact information to get to the person in question (email address is the rockbox noreply robot), I'm posting it here hoping we can get in touch somehow.
So, it was a long time ago, and I kinda forgor what I did, and I don't have the device at hand right now
BUT I searched around a bit and have found
1) https://github.com/Rockbox/rockbox with build instructions
2) Rockbox 3.13 sources in my downloads folder.
3) Several built images dated 2016.03.07. It's possible there were other, later images, deleted during some cleanup. There's no image dated march 8 or 9 (that being said, posting time can be an artifact of a holiday). Some of those might be the one you need. Or might be not.
4) I can get to the device by the weekend, but I'm not sure of its current state (haven't used it for a couple of years because mechanical damage, but should be alive unless SD card died to bitrot).
I skimmed through the ./tools/configure.sh script, and it seems this is the default settings for the HM-603 build target (via --target= option)
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190|hifimanhm60x)
target_id=79
modelname="hifimanhm60x"
target="HM60X"
memory=16
arm7ejscc
tool="$rootdir/tools/scramble -rkw -modelnum=79"
bmp2rb_mono="$rootdir/tools/bmp2rb -f 0"
bmp2rb_native="$rootdir/tools/bmp2rb -f 4"
output="rockbox.rkw"
bootoutput="bootloader.rkw"
appextra="recorder:gui"
plugins="yes"
swcodec="yes"
# toolset is the tools within the tools directory that we build for
# this particular target.
toolset="$genericbitmaptools"
# architecture, manufacturer and model for the target-tree build
t_cpu="arm"
t_manufacturer="rk27xx"
t_model="hm60x"
;;
As you can see, the default memory size is 16mb
You can change the configure script directly to set the ram size to whatever might work (4mb in my case)
Or there is --ram= configure option that most likely achieves the same result.
So our options are
1) Try to build the image yourself with the instructions provided in the git repo. The preferable way because you can get the latest and greatest version that is not outdated by 10 years and doesn't contain any extra malware introduced by yours truly.
2) Wait until caturday when I can get to the thingy and try to get the working firmware off the SD card. Assuming it's still alive.
3) I can just throw random firmware files at you, starting with the latest built, and we'll pray one of them will work.
2 and 3 are bad options because where's guarantee I won't give you an infected firmware that will randomly shuffle your collection ID3 tags (of course it will be a timebomb that activates a month later).
Anyway, if we are to move anywhere with this, some way to contact each other would be useful.
EDIT: I are retardenings. I confused original firmware images with teh rockbox builds. I found an actual build directory with several built rockbox images, including the definitely specified 4mb and 8mb ones.
EDIT2: I have the device, but it lacks the SD card with the software. So I can either give you whatever builds I've found or try building one from scratch.
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Starting Development and Compiling / Re: Sansa E200V2 Bootloader is broken in master
« Last post by bahus on April 01, 2024, 02:51:32 AM »Everything I've done is merged so let me know when you want to merge your changes. I also merged the multiboot v1 patches.
I tested bootloader on top of the latest changes - it works. So I think it's ready to be merged.