Yesterday:
iRiver H10… on malformed RockBox… might have been wonderful if I hadn’t deleted the vital files from the H10… in an aborted attempt to remove a botched install. Of course, I wasn’t wise enough to have backed up the original files on the H10, so now the whole thing is just a funny looking protable hard drive.
What really bothers me is that no one else seems to have backed them up either. And iRiver doesn’t seem to have the repair thing available anymore.
le sigh.
Today:
I finally found the correct program from iRiver to repair my H10. And it worked too! w00t. So of course, I immediately started to mess with it again.
This time I saved a backup of everything that was on the drive immediately. See! I do learn from mistakes, despite all signs to the contrary.
I grabbed the PDF instructions and the latest files and popped the H10 into UMS mode.
Or was it MTP.
See, this is where I went wrong last time. I installed H10 rockbox firmware, it just wasn’t for the right H10.
And I did it again this time. Everything is so simple and yet utterly confusing. I made the mistake of thinking that because I had told the H10 to emergency boot into UMS mode that it was now the UMS firmware that I wanted.
Wrong.
Installing the MTP H10 5GB firmware made everything look pretty again.
Until I tried to plug it back in and found that while the player was running smoothly, the computer wasn’t recognizing it as… well, as anything. Joy.
And I’m sure not seeing this supposed dual booting feature. It is probably there, and I just don’t know where to get to it. This is mostly frustrating because it is actually all spelled out in a great amount of clear detail. Yet, I’m just not getting it.
2 Responses
Ah, Rockbox on the H10. If you need any help, let me know. I have much experience hacking the good old H10… not to mention opening it up and fiddling with the innards.
Unless you have Plays For Sure (gotta love the irony in that name) content you want to play on your H10, I would recommend using the UMS firmware for it. There are pretty good step by step instructions up at http://www.misticriver.net/wiki/index.php/H10_Firmware_Conversion:_MTP/UMS
There are two different layers, the bootloader and the firmware. The device will flash the bootloaderwhenever it sees it in the root directory. Afterwards, it will only run the appropriate firmware, which is actually software (confusing terminology, I know) on the drive itself.
Rockbox has its own “bootloader” (which is actually firware… on the hard drive… whatever) that replaces the old one. To dual boot, rename the old firmware .bin file to .of, then hold down the back button when booting. The manual at Rockbox at http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-h10_5gb/rockbox-buildch2.html#x4-60002 explains this all pretty damn well. Hit me up on Twitter if you are still having problems. And good luck!
Posted on October 17th, 2008 at 5:41 am
I was partially inspired to begin hacking the H10 because you had mentioned it… and I wasn’t doing anything with it. I’ll definitely have to check out the UMS conversion.
I’m mostly doing okay with the Rockbox, though it seriously locks up everytime I try to use the record function. I’ll have to do some more research on the problem at some point.
And thank you for the offer!
Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Add A Comment