[ M6 SL firmware 2.004.4 ]

I found this today on the chinese meizu site...i don't know what are the changes, because i can't read chinese (too bad) :

M6 SL 2.004.4

try it on your own risk, i haven't tried it!

Thanks "nice2know_u" Change Log as translated by "IversonJack"

1. Support for 3.95~3.99 APE encoding added.
2. Fixed bug related to VBR MP3 files not displaying track times correctly.
3. Fixed bug related to when a VBR MP3 track finishes playing, and then goes on to play an APE file, the crash that happens.
4. Fixed bug related to when hovering in menus, pressing "enter" resulted in an option to close the player? (not quite sure about this one).
5. Fixed bug related to when after one manually close down the backlight, player unable to display screen again. (on M6, this is the function when you press and hold the menu button).
6. Fixed bug relating to crashing when voice record folder is opened.
7. Fixed bug that causes music to not be able to fast forward.
8. Fixed bug when a song is on pause, the "pupu" sound the player makes when you slide the volume up or down. (LOL).
9. Fixed bug when in "all music" folder, when you are at the bottom of the list, and you tap once more downwards to go to the top of the list, the crap stuff that is left at the bottom of the selector strip (LOL).

+1 thing i noticed: touchpad sensitivity has been increased! scrolling through menus is faster than before, i like it!

I have 1 issue with this new firmware.

After i update from the previous to this, SOMETIMES a song will be messed up.

It will like go very very slow and distorted.

To fix it i push forward then back to the song and it works fine .... can anyone else confirm this bug ?

my god, a terrible bug...again. and i ordered the SL a week ago

Ok so when i tried reinstalling this same firmware my player tried upgrading then it died !!

I spent an hour trying to fix it. ( reading forum, manual and trying a few things )

I hold play button for 20 seconds, then i held power and and M until the yellow screen appeared and said formating.

Player is working now :X i haven't yet noticed this slow distorted music bug yet..,. i will report back if i do.

Either its firmware bug or firmware didnt install correctly before because the first time i upgraded the player didn't format :X this 2nd try it did.

@Moogle: My SL "crashed" while updating firmware too, but i held play until it booted up and it worked fine...

Here are some other things I noticed that were fixed:

1. AVI icon is moved back to its original spot when selecting videos
2. Exiting out of the games now function properly.

What is still a problem/problems created after patch:
1. Stuttering still occurs at end of songs, but happens less often, and occurs on MP3s with a bit rate of 128kbps or less.
2.Above problem fixed on some songs, but now cuts off 0.5 to 1 second of the song.
3. Random distortion in some point of a song. Very rare but occurs more often.
4. NEW BUG: Slow distortion throughout a song is an issue. (I encountered it.)

ALSO: Resource file has not changed and is still the same as 2.004.1 beta TP/SP and 2.004.3 SL.

wow those are annoying bugs, i hope they fix it in like 1 week not 2 months!!

3. Random distortion in some point of a song. Very rare but occurs more often.
4. NEW BUG: Slow distortion throughout a song is an issue. (I encountered it.)

I encountered these but after reupdating again firmware and fully format and it went to default and i fix the settings to what i normally have, i haven't yet encountered this 2 problems again.

As for stutter what is that ? Do you mean song stutters for 1-2 seconds and is fine ?

Originally Posted by Moogle Stiltzkin

As for stutter what is that ? Do you mean song stutters for 1-2 seconds and is fine ?

Problem 3 is at some point of a song it sounds like "sfb kdjfhjb jd" for a millisecond and then continues normally. I think thats distortion rate.

Well im listening to my music 24/7 will report if anything wrong.

I got Mp3, ogg and flac on it.

The ogg i did myself :] using EAC then foobar to convert to ogg.

I am sorry to report i still encountered 3. Random distortion in some point of a song. Very rare but occurs more often sometimes.

Can be fixed by going forward then back but just to let you know this started happening ever since i updated to this new firmware.

Sooo...should we update our firmware?

All this bugs tell only about very short testing phase. Has Meizu no time for testing it well? No money? What are the reasons for such simple to discover bugs? I'm a student on the university of technology in germany and in all projects we must test our software for every bug that can occur, specially in User Interface. Sorry but I can't understand their concept in software planing

That's why firmware should be Open Source....

What is better?:

1)Meizu paying a little group of people developing/testing firmware without sufficient time.

2)Meizu paying 0$ while ALL THE MEIZU COMMUNITY AROUND THE WORLD is developing/testing firmware and improving it.

Answer is obvious for us, not for meizu.

i even doubt meizu pays them =)

did these distortions appear in 2.004.3? or in the default m6sl fw????????

i got my SL with the post today, and i have updated the player with this firmware... like a minute ago :D i feel like touchpad sensitivity has been increased so the scrolling in the menu is faster

Excuse me, I haven't been here for quite a long time,
does 2.004.4 supports FLAC v1.2.1 ?
If it does, may be I'll be back with a M6SL

swstar, it does

Originally Posted by swstar

Excuse me, I haven't been here for quite a long time,
does 2.004.4 supports FLAC v1.2.1 ?
If it does, may be I'll be back with a M6SL

I think M6 SP/TP supports it too.

Is the terrible bug of cracking noise of some track still appears?