Rockbox - CLOSED

nexxyz

I've used Rockbox on my iRiver H340 for over a year now (basically since the first user-targeted betas for that player), and battery life used to suck..until four months later, when they fixed that for the H340. It is a great project, and definitely the best choice for a firmware if there is a port for your player and you love your gadget and are willing to play around with the options a bit to set them to suit your taste and habits.

I started a thread about porting Rockbox to the M6:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=10078.0

If you would like to participate, please read the following to see what you can do to help during the first stages of development:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NewPort

There is already a bit of info about the M6 hardware around: if you have more, please keep it coming!

I would love to see this happen, but it is only possible if miniplayer enthusiasts with the necessary skills or the will to acquire them devote a bit of their time and energy to it...once the port is started, I am sure the Rockbox community will welcome it with open arms.

It is a great way to learn and have fun, AND get a new firmware for everyone running on your player!

DaHarder

Seriously now...

As one who uses RockBox on several of my iRiver DAPs and one of my NANOs, I have to say that MEIZU firmware covers almost everything that RockBox offers, with a far better integrated GUI.

MEIZU's codec support is also very well realized, so RockBoxing a MEIZU player would be a Moot Point!

Not to mention that fact that it's a Quick Way To Void Your MEIZU Warranty~

aten

it also covers a lot of annoying bugs, which rockbox lacks to do

this point is not clear to me. What is "integrated GUI"?

adding .mpc and .wv playback and the whole bucha games along with getting rid of most obvious bugs is a moot point?

and this is a BS, which made me reply for this post. If you are using rockbox, then you know that with their firmware one always obtains a "dual boot". Means you always can revert to original firmware, and updating the original firmware usually wipes out the rockbox completely. So how would one lose the warranty here?
Of course, there is always a chance to turn your DAP into a brick. But no one forces you to install rockbox.

DaHarder

Your Point?

We Agree To Disagree... Enough Said!

oxyg3n

i agree with aten's opinion I really miss rockbox since i have sold my iriver H320 :D

aegisofrime

As a matter of fact, Sandisk actually asked the Rockbox team to port Rockbox to their Sansas. Which is pretty smart in my opinion; you gain the recognition of the Head-Fi community, (Even though Head-Fi hates the Sansa due to the lousy sound quality), and you get someone to do the dirty work for you for free.

aten

the rockbox team was contacted by one person from sandisk with such suggestion. They donated some hardware (a couple players and some sort of development pcb board). No help was offered besides this. Sandisk representatives refused to make any datasheets available for rockbox team, therefore these guys were struggling for some time to get the sound working on sansa e2xx. But then the help came directly from the manufacturer of the DAC which agreed to provide them with datasheets after the guys have signed some sort of NDA. (actually, the whole story is here http://daniel.haxx.se/rockbox-sandisk-connection.html)

there was another story though, when a representative of some small Australian company asked rockbox people to port the firmware onto their player, and it seems as if it was supposed to be only firmware available for this model. I really dont know the end of this story is it had some development at all. You can find this somewhere on their forums.
my point - it is worth the efforts. But someone really has to start the action according to their guide.

vcf

guys i have miniplayer to and i think that making rockbox is worth the efforts!lets start!after creating wiki page MeizuM6Port < Main < TWiki we need to decrypt the original firmware (the code is in a rar archive which is in the firmware file after the first 8KB) i dont exactly understand what is it.any ideas?

mbarry

Yes, we should start a port. Anyone on this forum with any technical know-how should contribute. Too bad Meizu doesn't open up their firmware though...

Traps

It seems that there is also an unofficial firmware on the chinese bbs.. if it's not fake, then maybe it can be used as guideline.