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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Need to Remove Messed up Themes
« Last post by chris_s on Today at 09:38:22 AM »Just a heads-up: OneBit_VFD includes a theme file whose name is identical to that of OneBit VFD by Ben Clayton (OneBit_VFD.cfg in both instances), which results in one of them being overwritten when installing both.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Rockbox on HiFi Walker H2
« Last post by dconrad on Today at 08:31:10 AM »Ok, good. Now I need you to do the following:
1. Format the SD card with the player
2. Download the correct rockbox build for a Hosted Aigo Eros Q/K
3. Extract it onto the card.
Here is a video showing exactly how to do it, start to end. Please do exactly as this video does. Don't take any shortcuts or do anything a different way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKC42w8jYw
At the end, this is what your SD card should look like:
https://imgur.com/a/JrNQD77
1. Format the SD card with the player
2. Download the correct rockbox build for a Hosted Aigo Eros Q/K
3. Extract it onto the card.
Here is a video showing exactly how to do it, start to end. Please do exactly as this video does. Don't take any shortcuts or do anything a different way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKC42w8jYw
At the end, this is what your SD card should look like:
https://imgur.com/a/JrNQD77
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Rockbox on HiFi Walker H2
« Last post by psyscott on Today at 03:16:09 AM »Yes, except when I select Rockbox it says "cannot boot Rockbox". If I select "HIBY PLAYER, it boots "Eros". I do see ".rockbox" on the card.
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Hardware / Re: Weird screen problem with 6th gen ipod
« Last post by iPodVT on Today at 12:59:22 AM »Yes, that is very strange.
A 512GB card should yield ~477GiB. What kind of storage are you using (make/model of adapter/card or SSD)? Did you test it with H2TestW when it was new?
Model MB147 and serial ending in YMV both indicate a black 80GB 6th Gen, so firmware 1.1.2 is expected, but not with more than ~127GiB allocated storage.
A 512GB card should yield ~477GiB. What kind of storage are you using (make/model of adapter/card or SSD)? Did you test it with H2TestW when it was new?
Model MB147 and serial ending in YMV both indicate a black 80GB 6th Gen, so firmware 1.1.2 is expected, but not with more than ~127GiB allocated storage.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Rockbox on HiFi Walker H2
« Last post by dconrad on June 19, 2025, 11:57:13 PM »Ok. I'm just trying to understand what state your device is in. Here is a video showing what I believe your device looks like when you boot it up. Is this accurate, except that it says "Cannot Boot Rockbox" when you try to select rockbox?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H245Y2CZMw
Once you confirm this, we can go from there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H245Y2CZMw
Once you confirm this, we can go from there.
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: OneBit_OLED
« Last post by delta on June 19, 2025, 11:03:54 PM »I’m pretty sure I fixed the battery indicator in my version of the theme. Unless I’m mistaken…. And I apologize if it rubbed anyone the wrong way by uploading so many recolors. I really just wanted to fix all the bugs with Ben’s theme and re-upload but I got creative and thought myself as well as others might enjoy some different version to play around with. I’ve been messing around with more colors and more codes to see if I can’t just make a customizable version but I’m failing to comprehend even the simplest of things in Rockbox like how to make a viewport or image a gradient type.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Rockbox on HiFi Walker H2
« Last post by psyscott on June 19, 2025, 05:41:17 PM »BTW, I can boot into Eros, although boot options calls it something else,
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Rockbox on HiFi Walker H2
« Last post by psyscott on June 19, 2025, 05:08:07 PM »I did have it working but font was too small. Now however device says it can't boot Rockbock, when I select Rockbox in boot options. I have, however, made changes in microsd card since. That's why I tried reinstalling update.
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Hardware / Re: Weird screen problem with 6th gen ipod
« Last post by Frankenpod on June 19, 2025, 05:07:58 PM »Well this has gotten stranger still. I actually have two ipods with this same issue. The second one I tried flash modding with a 512GB card (figuring I had nothing to lose with this weirdly-behaving thing), and weirdly, it restored in iTunes, stating 460GiB size, while simultaneously declaring it had firmware 1.1.2 (two attributes I didn't think could co-exist).
I was then able to install rockbox on it. It still has the problem that the screen is blank in original firmware mode, but it seems to function with RB, with 460GiB available, and I can synch to it in OF mode (albeit can't see what it's doing). System debug syscfg says model number mb147, and last three letters of the serial number are YMV, but I can't work out from that if it's a 6th gen or a 7th gen or a 7.5gen.
It's possible in all my endless faffing about with broken/refurbished ipods I've swapped some parts around at some point, but I didn't think I had any 7.5gen logic boards spare.
I don't have any working screens to swap in, and anyway, the puzzle is why the screen works with RB, but not OF.
Edit, hmmm, according to something I found about decoding serial numbers, this one was made in 37th week of 2007, so it would have to be a 6th gen (which is what I thought it was). Odd that it seems to accept 512GB, but I think maybe I somehow, entirely accidentally, have done the same firmware swap thing you did, but for some reason it has the side-effect of the display not working in OF. Though even that doesn't entirely make sense as I restored this thing from fresh with the flash memory mod.
Pah, am inclined to give up and consider it a mystery. Can't work out what's happened to these two ipods.
I was then able to install rockbox on it. It still has the problem that the screen is blank in original firmware mode, but it seems to function with RB, with 460GiB available, and I can synch to it in OF mode (albeit can't see what it's doing). System debug syscfg says model number mb147, and last three letters of the serial number are YMV, but I can't work out from that if it's a 6th gen or a 7th gen or a 7.5gen.
It's possible in all my endless faffing about with broken/refurbished ipods I've swapped some parts around at some point, but I didn't think I had any 7.5gen logic boards spare.
I don't have any working screens to swap in, and anyway, the puzzle is why the screen works with RB, but not OF.
Edit, hmmm, according to something I found about decoding serial numbers, this one was made in 37th week of 2007, so it would have to be a 6th gen (which is what I thought it was). Odd that it seems to accept 512GB, but I think maybe I somehow, entirely accidentally, have done the same firmware swap thing you did, but for some reason it has the side-effect of the display not working in OF. Though even that doesn't entirely make sense as I restored this thing from fresh with the flash memory mod.
Pah, am inclined to give up and consider it a mystery. Can't work out what's happened to these two ipods.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Rockbox on HiFi Walker H2
« Last post by dconrad on June 19, 2025, 04:57:22 PM »Thank you for your help.
Should try a different installation method, or just give up on this H2?
I apologize for being so terse before, but... Now that I've thought about it, you had it working before, right? It was just that the text was small? So I'm not sure what you're currently trying to achieve. If this is a v1.8 Hifi Walker H2, then I don't believe there are any newer original firmware versions which work on your device. Original firmware update files are only compatible within their same hardware revisions, if that makes sense.
Or are you still trying to get back to Rockbox working? If so, we can work on that. I'm pretty sure you just need the correct .rockbox folder on the root of the card. No update file needed in that case.
If you're trying to get the player back to stock, we can continue trying to get it to accept the update file. We may need to look more closely at which update file you're using.
I certainly wouldn't give up on it, but depending on what your goal is, we may need to look more closely at how to get there.