Rockbox vs. iriver firmware

[Ricardo Dawkins]

Hello boys!

I'm newbie here but managed to install this build of Rockbox Exp (2.8.1d) over the 1.29K firmware on my iriver H320.

Now, the original iriver firmware can't load after pressing and hold record before turning on the player. Player get stuck on the loading screen.

I followed all the advice on the Rockbox.org page about: resetting the player, scanning the disk, renaming or removing some files on the player and even formatting the drive twice. And got the same result with the 1.29K firmware stuck on the loading screen.

Tried to downgrade to a old version of Rockbox and got the same results. Rockbox still loads fine.

What should I do to recover the 1.29K firmware since I want to play videos ?
The is a way to recover the firmware without doing the procedure described on the player's manual ?

Any clues. Thanks for any answer and regards.

[ego]

just in case, check make sure:

with the player off, hold record. hold play, and keep both buttons pressed until the iriver logo displays.

if that doesn't help, can you describe with more detail what is wrong? when you say 'stuck on the loading screen,' do you mean the bootloader loading screen or the iriver loading screen?

[Ricardo Dawkins]

Hi Ego

I did what you told me. Still, freeze (stuck) on the iriver's loading screen. It reads-...
Ver 1.29K
LOADING...

What happens is that I need to boot on the iriver firmware. After pressing holding both record + play to load it my player is always freezing on the load screen since I updated to Rockbox Experimental build 2.8.1d from this site:
http://rockbox.biniaris.net/KoshBuilds.html

Check the thread here about this build:
http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=38917&page=57

Rockbox is still working fine. the bootloader version is 5. Before all this, dual boot was working fine. Shame on me.

Hoping someone else can help me, too.

[ego]

hm. try plugging the player in to AC while it's off, or holding record and plugging it into USB. if you can make the iriver fw boot somehow, you can flash to a clean copy of 1.29k and then try again (which is my only idea for a solution).  good luck. the people at the rockbox IRC channel might be able to offer advice too, usually most of the devs hang out there.

because it sounds like a bootloader problem and not a rockbox problem, the build you're using probably doesn't matter... i think.

[Llorean]

Though it's strange that the problem started according to him after he switched builds. I'd be curious to know if it was from an official build to one of the experimental/optimized/whatever other builds.

[Ricardo Dawkins]

Ego

Option 1: it goes direct to charging under the iriver firmware. Big battery logo splash with the charging word below and the blue bars.

Option 2: it goes direct to charging under the iriver firmware. Big battery logo splash with the charging word below and the blue bars.

final result: cant load into iriver firmware

Llorean.
Switched from the halfway build (drippy) to one of the Kosh-PaulHue 2.7 build. After that went to Kosh-PaulHue build 2.8.

final result: Rockbox build load fine and cant load into iriver firmware

[Febs]

hm. try plugging the player in to AC while it's off, or holding record and plugging it into USB. if you can make the iriver fw boot somehow, you can flash to a clean copy of 1.29k and then try again (which is my only idea for a solution).  good luck. the people at the rockbox IRC channel might be able to offer advice too, usually most of the devs hang out there.

because it sounds like a bootloader problem and not a rockbox problem, the build you're using probably doesn't matter... i think.

I just want to point out that if the problem is a bad hard drive, he is much better off having the Rockbox bootloader than the iriver bootloader.

[Febs]

Ego

Option 1: it goes direct to charging under the iriver firmware. Big battery logo splash with the charging word below and the blue bars.

Option 2: it goes direct to charging under the iriver firmware. Big battery logo splash with the charging word below and the blue bars.

final result: cant load into iriver firmware

Try pressing ON/PLAY when it is in this state.  What happens?

[Ricardo Dawkins]

Febs:

nothing special happens. I did the following:

Press ON / PLAY : nothing. just keep on Charging

Hold ON / PLAY: nothing. just keep on charging


Remember that before asking for any advice & help, I reset the player, ran a scandisk on it (W2K & XP) that found nothing, renamed and removed folders and files, formatted twice and still same problem.

I tried installing older versions of RB from MAY. But, same problem. I think is the bootloader that is borked.

I hope this thing doesnt brick. Any other advice boys beyond keeping RB just for playing music ?
(I bought this 'cause it "could" play videos)

[Ricardo Dawkins]

Ok. Looking on the H320 drive with command line under WinXP found the following folders
Recycled
System Volume Information

The 2nd folder have information regarding Rockbox, please check the following images
Command line box...Notice the two hidden folders Recycled and System Volume Information



Notice the files inside one of the sub-folders into "System Volume Information". On the notepad windows you can see the information inside a few of those files









My question is: should I delete these folders since anyone here no more advice for me ?
Regards.

BTW, notice how the iriver firmware is recreating the RECORD folder with its subfolders every time I delete it.

[pabouk]

The "Recycled" and "System Volume Information" folders are not important. You can safely delete them. They are created automatically by Windows (XP or ME).

"Recycled" contains "deleted" files which can be eventually restored.

"System Volume Information" contains automatic backups of some files. The backup is created by the "System Restore" service.

[Mad Dog McKill]

This is exactly what I am having as well..

I described my problem here and so far.. there hasn't been any progress.. I wonder how widespread this thing is..

http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?p=465237#post465237

I am using Iriver's 1.29k firmware.. and so far besides not booting up, the contrast has been messed up once again...

In my case though, the problem began not when I upgraded to another build but 3 weeks after I started using using a bleeding edge Rockbox build dated 23 of May.

[petur]

I've just added the eeprom driver for h300 series and a way to write a file to it.

This way it should be possible to restore OF eeprom settings if rockbox wiped them. It can also be used to find the source of the wiping.

[prop]

I've just added the eeprom driver for h300 series and a way to write a file to it.

This way it should be possible to restore OF eeprom settings if rockbox wiped them. It can also be used to find the source of the wiping.

It works!
Thanks!!! ))))

[petur]

you mean you took an internal_eeprom.bin from another player and wrote it back?

I've started a separate thread with instructions and a copy of my eeprom