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Offline zhilik

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RockBox on MPIO HD200?
« on: September 10, 2005, 01:00:55 PM »
I took appart my HD200 and found that it uses hardware very similar to the iRiver H1xx. Is anyone doing/plannig to do a port of RockBox to this device? Unfortunately MPIO's firmware is rather poor...

And if nobody is, how do I start myself?
(I DO have knowledge in electronics/microcontrollers (thou I worked with AVR's and MSP430's) and know the C language).
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Offline LinusN

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Re: RockBox on MPIO HD200?
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2005, 01:30:18 PM »
Put the circuit board(s) on a flatbed scanner, scan at a high resolution and publish the pictures in the wiki. then we can start documenting the chips.

Pick up your trusty multimeter and start tracing the circuit board, to draw schematics.
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Offline zhilik

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Re: RockBox on MPIO HD200?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2005, 09:32:53 AM »
Here they are:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/InsideMPIOHD200
I'm afraid of pocking around with a multimeter - something tells me that there are alot of thing I could kill with the 9v battery inside it...
And drawing the circuit is also rather complicated - the microcontroller and some other parts are in BGA packages  :-\
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Offline LinusN

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Re: RockBox on MPIO HD200?
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2005, 01:24:43 PM »
Don't worry, the multimeter doesn't use 9V when tracing. Those scans will take us quite a long way, but we will need to trace some signals. Also, we will probably need to sacrifice a player and remove the BGA's just like we did with the H100 and H300.

I find it very interesting that there is an unpopulated 20-pin ZIF connector on the PCB. It might very well be a BDM connector.
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