Creative ZEN X-Fi

[pamaury]

I am starting a dedicated thread for the ZEN X-Fi even though it is very close to the Creative ZEN.
The port is now in beta test! You can find the instruction here: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CreativeZENXFiPort. Don't forget that this is a preliminary version to it might be unstable and so on. I put a prebuilt version of the bootloader on my dropbox (see wiki link) and you can find the nightly build here: http://build.rockbox.org/data/rockbox-creativezenxfi.zip.
A few important notes:
1) you'll have to reformat the storage to FAT thus you cannot dual-boot and you will loose all your file on the device
2) charging is not implemented, use the recovery mode to charge

[cela]

Just tried this port out again following the LCD rework.

It's much better now, no annoying white screen, my workaround was to keep the screen setting permanently on, but now I can set the back light to time out again, for the record I have 8GB non wifi version.

[chrisjj]

ISSUE 1:  Boot can hang with black screen, either immediately after the CREATIVE logo or the bootloader text. Tested with bootloader V1Beta2.

[ToJa92]

Hi!

I just got Rockbox working on my X-Fi, thanks to your hard work. It looks awesome!

At first I tried to build everything myself, and after flashing the firmware.nk file I could get the basic text prompt (I.E. a black background with white text, saying that it was charging). However, when I tried to actually boot Rockbox it would first show the Creative logo twice and then go to a black screen.

Perhaps the build in the git repository is broken at the moment? Your prebuilt firmware is about two months old according to Dropbox. Unfortunately I don't know enough about developing for embedded systems to help you out (or even figure out if there's something wrong at the moment - I have no clue where to start).

[pamaury]

Hi,
the current ZEN X-Fi bootloader has a know problem (aka Black Screen of Death), I might have a found a fix, currently beta testing on the ZEN and will port to the X-Fi if it works. If this happen, just reset and you should eventually be able to boot rockbox. In doubt just a wait a few days so I can upload a new one hopefully.

[pamaury]

I have updated the LCD code, I think it should be more stable now.

[pamaury]

Hi, I have enabled frequency scaling for improved battery life and speaker is now supported. The screen flicker on frequency change but I think it's very hard to impossible to remove without compromising battery life or performance so I hope it's not too bad.

[chrisjj]

Can anyone tell me how to remove Rockbox from a Creative ZEN X-Fi? I reinstalled the Creative firmware ZENXFI_PCFW_L22_1_04_08.exe, but now boot shows CREATIVE, then ZEN, then Firmware Problem. Thanks.

[pamaury]

You probably have to reformart the user partition using the recovery mode. I don't have the device at hand so I don't remember how it is named.

[chrisjj]

You probably have to reformart the user partition using the recovery mode. I don't have the device at hand so I don't remember how it is named.

Ah yes. I should know that by now!

1 Hold Play while powering on
2 Select Format All

Thanks Amaury.

[pamaury]

Hi,
just so you know, I created and committed a keymap for all the plugins. Please refer to the Creative ZEN thread for more information. For now it doesn't use any key which is specific to the X-Fi, but if someone is willing to try and propose some improvements, I'll be happy to implement them.

[chrisjj]

just so you know, I created and committed a keymap for all the plugins.

Thanks. Works well here.

[chrisjj]

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CreativeZENXFiPort#Forum_discussion  says "Recording 0% Untested."

I tested it. It doesn't work.

[chrisjj]

Anyone else finding that screendump crashes? Here, Undefined instruction at 6004E75C.

[ToJa92]

Anyone else finding that screendump crashes? Here, Undefined instruction at 6004E75C.

I get this message on revision eaaff26:

Code: [Select]

Prefetch abort at FFFFFB54
FSR 0xC8
(domain 12, fault 8)
pc:FFFFFB54 sp:600E8E70
bt end

Hi, I have enabled frequency scaling for improved battery life and speaker is now supported. The screen flicker on frequency change but I think it's very hard to impossible to remove without compromising battery life or performance so I hope it's not too bad.

The speaker works great.
I took a look at the CPU frequency through the debug menu (for ~5 minutes while playing music) but it never changed, so I never saw any screen flicker. Maybe the CPU only idles in certain situations?
I'm on revision eaaff26.