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Hardware / Re: New cheap portable player in the market
« Last post by bahus on Today at 09:47:55 AM »I got a working YP3 player like that, I uploaded the dump
Thanks! It works!!! And it adds missing Cyrillic support. My old firmware was: K177 yp3 1.6.23 Now it's: 2.0.43. Cool.
jpegqs also gave me 2.0.43 dump of similar player but my player didn't see SD card and colors were inverted. So there are multiple hardware revisions of the same player. Didn't really expect your dump to fully work.
The same than this BenJie player https://www.benjie-tx.com/mp3player/217.html
Yes Benjie D30 is the same chip. Other SL6806 players are mentioned in video converting tool readme:
https://github.com/fdd4s/portable_music_player_avi_video_converter_tool_2025
It actually plays h264 format but needs some fancy encoding settings that can't be supplied by ffmpeg.
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Hardware / Re: New cheap portable player in the market
« Last post by pmp4 on Today at 09:32:14 AM »the MP3-807 from the eroshifi brand has a newer SL6806 chip with 4MB flash memory, possibly has more RAM.Bought another player from aliexpress for 4$ (early bird deal) and it also comes with newer chip SL6806:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008748160971.html
Firmware functionality looks pretty much the same. But screen quality is much better. According to spec it's 1.8 inch IPS display with 240x288 resolution (vs 128x160 for my old one 1.8 inch YP3 player). Seems true.
Firmware dump for SL6806 using jpegqs tool:
https://mega.nz/file/wK5EVA5b#DRLUuvfKSCKuA1AJbvVcsvfPV35AjefLmjcg5ZKW2h0
The screen seems to be the same than several aliexpress smartwaches.
A 2.01 inch 240x296 display, with round borders.
The same than this BenJie player https://www.benjie-tx.com/mp3player/217.html
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Hardware / Re: New cheap portable player in the market
« Last post by pmp4 on Today at 09:24:29 AM »I made a firmware dumper for yp3 players. The firmware update program is written in python and is quite easy to decompile.
The chip's bootloader has the ability to load binary code into memory and execute it (just like in feature phones).
Awesome tool, thank you for coding it!
Mine YP3 player looks like this. If you need to test any write capabilities but afraid to kill your player - let me know we can use mine
I got a working YP3 player like that, I uploaded the dump here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/y38j36mphzradas/dump-round18usbc-yp3_2.0.43.bin/file
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User Interface and Voice / Re: A user-named shortcut to a setting chooser will change that chooser's list title
« Last post by iPodVT on May 12, 2025, 08:56:01 AM »I edited the question at the end of my above post to make the main point of the post be more clear. The question is:
Is there an intentional reason and need/benefit for Rockbox to change a setting chooser's list title to be the same as the shortcut's user-supplied name?
Thanks.
Is there an intentional reason and need/benefit for Rockbox to change a setting chooser's list title to be the same as the shortcut's user-supplied name?
Thanks.
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User Interface and Voice / Re: Panic after disconnecting from USB
« Last post by joebar on May 11, 2025, 03:30:07 PM »It's a Sansa e200 and I was just yanking it out, but I did try clicking the Safely Remove Hardware icon and selecting Eject drive to see if it would make a difference.
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Plugins/Viewers / viewer plugin for ipod .tone files?
« Last post by TheoCGaming on May 11, 2025, 01:13:52 PM »the ipod's stock os has a function that allows you to make your own alarms using .tone files that are played through the built-in beeper, but rockbox doesn't seem to have any support for them by default. does anyone know of a plugin i can get that would do that?
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Cooperative multitasking?
« Last post by amachronic on May 11, 2025, 09:03:04 AM »Ouch. I forgot about that nasty side-effect on hosted platforms. But yeah, we could catch a lot by testing hosted & sim builds with pthreads if we wanted to go fully preemptive. The biggest chunk of core code that isn't testable that way is the filesystem layer. I think being able to test the FS code in sim would be great for many other reasons too, but it's a PITA to implement.
Realistically even if some platforms could go preemptive, we would still need to support cooperative threading for the foreseeable future, to avoid breaking platform-specific code that we can't update for whatever reason (lack of hardware, time, etc).
Realistically even if some platforms could go preemptive, we would still need to support cooperative threading for the foreseeable future, to avoid breaking platform-specific code that we can't update for whatever reason (lack of hardware, time, etc).
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Cooperative multitasking?
« Last post by Bilgus on May 11, 2025, 08:49:51 AM »AFAIK this page is still relevant
https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxKernel.html#General
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The Rockbox kernel is an advanced priority aware cooperative kernel. It consists of thin threads with some means of passing messages and locking data structures.
https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxKernel.html#General
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User Interface and Voice / Re: Disable delete message and progress bar
« Last post by speachy on May 11, 2025, 07:39:45 AM »Is it possible to disable the "Deleting file" message and progress bar?
Of course it's possible. Set up a development environment, modify poll_cancel_action() in apps/fileop.c to not show the splash for deletion (as opposed to copying and moving) operations, compile a new binary for your device.
But keep in mind that disabling the progress splash won't let you do anything else while the operation is happening; the UI will just appear to hang until it's finished, and that's probably not what you want.
(Of course, changing that is also possible, but would require a substantial amount of work)
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User Interface and Voice / Re: Panic after disconnecting from USB
« Last post by speachy on May 11, 2025, 07:29:48 AM »You can start by stating what device you are running rockbox 4.0 on, if you disconnected it "safely" vs just yanked it out, etc.