Topic: iRiver H120 CF Mod Attempt - Success!

[Humbug]

OK, I admit it, I owned one of these as a teenager:



I think the job you've done, and the level of detail that's gone into Rockbox is amazing, I personally find it hard to follow the instructions though. I'm not sure if that's me, or if others have found this too..

[Ziggz]

Took me a while to get my head around it too! I followed this post, and it worked great:
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=95239.msg1388440#msg1388440

[Humbug]

Great! I must have read through this thread a couple of times and not noticed that post properly.

H120 now flashed; just awaiting the arrival of the CF card (Kingston Elite 16GB) and screwdriver.

Thanks for your help.

[yousef]

Seeing this thread bumped just reminded me: I posted a couple of pages back about doing a similar mod to my Korg 16-track... for the record, it didn't work and for a distressing half-hour it actually seemed to have completely killed the recorder.

Looking forward to similar (but hopefully more successful) tinkering with my Iriver in due course.

[petur]

Seeing this thread bumped just reminded me: I posted a couple of pages back about doing a similar mod to my Korg 16-track... for the record, it didn't work and for a distressing half-hour it actually seemed to have completely killed the recorder.

I'm not surprised actually.... It took me quite some time to get CF working - it doesn't work in the original firmware and it didn't work in rockbox at first either.

[Humbug]

Phew - seems to have worked OK! Took me about 30 minutes.

Plastic prongs stop adaptor being fitted:



Oops snapped one off (circled). Other one shortened.



Finished - looks OK! Why only 15GB? Now to test it.

[Idle Wind]

1024 Bytes (not 1000) in a Megabyte prob. explains why you're reading only 15GB.

I love my Rockboxed CF Mod IRiver.  Much lighter, quieter, way better battery performance.  I remember some struggle and drama when I initially did the CF Mod.  But when I get one of those Sony M10s, not sure I'll use it anymore.

Rockbox is not just for IRivers though......

I Rockboxed an IPod Video 60GB, loaded it up with live FLACs, it plays DOOM, etc.  Totally cool, especially once you get a "theme" together which shows "album art" (read:  pictures of Jerry playing live) track lists, etc.  I've only got about 10GB left (though  keep pruning it) so I think my wife's old Toshiba 60GB Gigabeat is next.....

What would be totally cool is dropping a 1 TB drive in one of these, but I don't think they make em that small. 

[shaggy]

Yep, not just for H1X0s!  In fact, the developers are getting other ports up and running in the past year or so.  I just installed it on my 2GB Sansa Clip and now it is my to-go player despite the small storage size!  I have those old legacy Sansas RB'd too, e280 and c250.  The e280 is great for Shinkansen rides, load it up with some WinFF scaled down Family Guy or Simpsons and I am in Kansai in a few episodes.

[petur]

We still need to find a good recent platform that has line-in. Had a look at the iriver E100 some time ago but it never took off.
Suggestions are always welcome

[athanato]

Hi,

I followed the guide for modding the iRiver iHP120 with CF, however with RB (Jan 26, 2010 build with bootloader 7pre4) it hangs on the RB logo screen with my new Kingston 32gb Elite Pro x133 CF card using any boot mode selected.
disk (expected), ram, or rom.

any thoughts?

[shaggy]

obvious questions: was the card formatted to FAT32?  You loaded the 1/26/2010 build onto it (.rockbox folder)? You preflashed the iriver.rockbox (RAM image) and iriver.rombox (ROM image) to the ROM with your HD?

[athanato]

Correct, all three bootloader  (7pre4), Jan 26 ram and rom images are flashed. I get all 4 options at bootup, disk, ram, rom, shutdown.
It is formatted FAT32

[shaggy]

Success with a 32GB TOPRAM CF (I had tested it in a dry run with a 2GB Kingston Elite Pro).  About a 45min job as I had to replace a Li-Poly battery as well, the damned power leads from the battery came off as I was double sticking it to the back plate.  I just shortend the leads a bit and resoldered.

[travelinbeat]

I just succeeded doing the CF-mod on my rockboxed iHP-120! 

What did I do on my iHP-120:

(0. Order the CF-to-IDE-adapter => ebay)

1. install the latest H120 rockbox-build from today

2. download the necessary "7pre4"-bootloader for the H120 here:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/viewfile/Main/IriverFlashing?rev=1;filename=bootloader_h120_7pre4.zip

3. copy the "7pre4"-bootloader to your H120´s harddisk(root directory)

4. FLASHING:
First Initialize your player as follows: (Stop audio-playback).

- Set "Show Files" to "All" in "General Settings"
- Enter the File Browser by choosing "Files" in the Rockbox menu
- Navigate to "bootloader.iriver"
- Mark "bootloader.iriver" and press(long) joystick - then select "Open with..."
- From the list of plugins, select "iriver_flash" and execute.
- If all went smoothly a confirmation message should be displayed
- Press PLAY-button (right side TOP-button) to confirm, the firmware flashing-process starts,
- "Success"-message and the player will return to the file browser

5. Copy the complete rockbox directory to your PC

6. Replace the HDD using the CF-to-IDE Adapter mentioned in this thread on page 1.

7. Bend down the adpater´s jumper, otherwise you´ll run into issues later on

8. Copy the folder from your PC back to the CF-card

9. Fix the 8 torx screws and you are DONE!




I use a SANDISK 8GB extreme III CF-card, which has ONLY 133x speed(about 20MB/s read and write).

No errors on boot-screen.

"System/Rockbox-Info" shows 7.xx GB as supposed to.

Here a pic of my "challenge":
My 8GB CF card attached to the ebay-Honkong-"CF-to-IDE adapter" : You can see how I needed to bend down the blue jumper.

Any have a lead on a current replacement for this link? I have all my hardware coming in to attempt this mod =)  I'm still not certain about the process though-- OP says I can just install it as a blank CF, then plug in the brain-dead new iriver and have the comp read it as a USB device, then just install the RockBox files that way.... but the above quoted post has some step that mentions this "7pre4" thing, and I'm not even quite sure what that is and what it does....

[Humbug]

Hello - though I've never tried to record with the H116, I gave it to the other half, and for a couple of months it's worked fine as a music player.

However as of yesterday, it comes up with "No partition found".

I don't have another card, or device in which it'll work, can someone suggest what to do?

I have tried taking the iRiver apart and putting it back together, doesn't change things..

Forgot to mention that my pc doesn't recognise the H116 as a drive any more.