Topic: iRiver H120 CF Mod Attempt - Success!

[ballubasch]

THANK YOU for this great thread!

I thought my H120 to be lost after 10 years, when I dropped it and the harddrive was broken. Couldn't afford another MK GAL somewhat for like 300.-. I didn't even have Rockbox installed, so I couldn't go Runrunrun's way, I needed a HD first to install the Rockbox-Bootloader.

Now recently, a friend phoned me up, saying he once saw me still using my good ol' IRiver and that he found his old broken H140 when he mucked out his drawers, that he had regrets just throwing it away, asking if I had any use for it. How beautiful is that?!

The HardDrive was louder than a chainsaw, but worked and my IRiver is now officially Rockboxed. Now I'm waiting for the Adapter and the CF-Card to arrive. 

I really would like to repair his H140 in return for his favour, but the switch that corresponds with the play-button is somehow crushed, so it's not possible to turn-on the device. Has anybody experience with repairing defective buttons?

Now go Adapter, go CF-Card, and finally go again IRiver, for another 10 Years! 

[rsimms3]

Okay, so I just performed the CFMod on my H120.  Is there any harm in using an old REP build with this mod?  I really like the old REP builds with the adjustable sized peak meters, they feel less cluttered than the current daily builds.

[petur]

the current daily builds use the user font, so bigger font == bigger peakmeters

There is talks right now about making the whole screen skinnable, so expect the REP to become obsolete somewhere in the future

[rsimms3]

the current daily builds use the user font, so bigger font == bigger peakmeters

There is talks right now about making the whole screen skinnable, so expect the REP to become obsolete somewhere in the future

Not to be a complete ass, but you didn't answer my question.  You are saying with a new build to get larger peakmeters I have to have a bigger font, I don't want that.  I just want regular sized font and big ass peakmeters.  The two should be independent of each other in my opinion.  I don't know how skins work, I just like how the old REP builds have a seperate adjustment for the size of the peakmeters independent of font size.

[petur]

point taken. We'll try to let the skins define peakmeter size

[yousef]

Possibly not the best place to ask this but I was wondering if this sort of mod would be possible with any hard drive-equiped device.

I ask because I have picked up a Korg D1600 recorder which has an ATA hard drive - something that seems to be getting harder (though not yet impossible) to source. Swapping it for 64GB of flash media sounds like an attractive solution.

Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.

[petur]

simple answer: somebody has to try it

[yousef]

simple answer: somebody has to try it

The parts are already on the way...

Expect to hear many, many expletives.

[Idle Wind]

Hmm.  I did the CF Mod on my rockboxed 120.  Everything worked fine, I stealthed a show with it (think chick music, SC, something about an avalanche..)  No problems.

I did the USB transfer, realize it has to be reset after that,  I did that, I get the bootloader - my default was boot from RAM but it's on the Shut Down selection, and the NAV button doesn't work now, and I can't move it up to boot from RAM (or ROM or whatever...).

It was working fine before.  Any ideas?   

Never mind.  Had the hold button on.   

[shaggy]

Okay, another question, anyone try this?

ata/cf  adapter > cf/SDHC adapter?

[petur]

Okay, another question, anyone try this?

ata/cf  adapter > cf/SDHC adapter?

Yes, a fellow rockbox developer tried this and failed. Maybe it was his particular adapter/SD combination, but it is a sure sign it won't be plug and play...

[Humbug]

Could I possibly ask for some help?

I am currently preparing an iRiver H120 for CF-modding and have ordered the parts.

The instructions here:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CFModGuide

are not simple enough for me! I think it's my age..I'm nearly 40 and not a computer whiz-kid.

I have currently installed the latest version of rockbox (r24254-100116) for my iRiver - I probably didn't do this right - I unzipped it on my pc, then copied across the .rockbox folder, however I seem to have two versions of Rockbox installed.

The latest version fires up when the power is switched on. If I navigate to Files, and click the rockbox.iriver file, it fires up the old version (CVS-060721).

Could someone please let me know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Humbug

[Humbug]

Oh yeah, a screenshot:

[shaggy]

You should delete the .hex file and the .rar files as they are unecessary (you can save those on your computer's HD and then delete them off your H120).  I believe that the rockbox.iriver file is not supposed to be outside of the .rockbox folder.  It is dated from your install of 7-21-2006, that is whay I say that.  If you examine the .rockbox folder, you have a rockbox.iriver folder that will be of the correct date.  In fact, I just looked at the recent install I did and I did exactly what you did, clicked on the remanant rockbox.iriver file from my previous install (7-17-2006) and it booted up the old image even though I replaced the .rockbox folder with the newer version.  I deleted the file in question and it runs just fine without it.  I went to my old archive of old H120 .rockbox folders and noticed that there were no rockbox.iriver files within the .rockbox folder (all from 2006).  It must be some new file arrangement now.

Don't forget to install the pre7beta4 bootloader, I just did this last month and will be doing a 32GB CF upgrade very shortly myself.  Which CF card did you settle on?  I am thinking of getting the Adata Speedy here in Japan but the Topram is about $25 cheaper in the US.

[petur]

yes, remove the rockbox.iriver file from the root, it should only be present in the .rockbox directory.

And being nearly 40 is no excuse, I'm your age. So I know that you grew up with computers