Anyway To Prevent Refresh When Loading Orig Firmware

[smeakim]

Well now that I am hooked on Rockbox and there is no USB support anyone know of a quick way to get to the original firmware to load or change music without having to wait for the refresh everytime?

Thanks

[pyr0sphere]

It only refreshes once after you've made a change. After that, it won't refresh the database.

[OddBob]

If you load music with a media manager (like WMP) in MTP mode you won't have the long database refresh wait.

[chrisjs162216]

There is a hack for the BL so that you can use MSC and it'll think that no changes have been made. I'll see if I can find it

[muffinzrock]

hmmm... please find that!! lol

[chrisjs162216]

Found where on the hidden firmware partition it needs to be overwritten....checking on IRC for the code used to have the RB bootloader write a 0 to that on startup


UPDATE: Found that the code is already used, but only when the USB cable is plugged in. Should I make a custom BL to have it always execute that code on startup?

[donutman25]

yes please!

[chrisjs162216]

It's compiling fine, but it won't boot the OF now. I'm not getting any messages, it's just booting into Rockbox, so I'll fool with it tomorrow and see why it's not working

edit: It seems I managed to remove access the he OF via <<|, as it still works when inserting a usb cable. Meh, I'll see if I can figure it out tomorrow

[cpchan]

If you don't use the OF for music, videos and photos, one way to drastically cut down on the database refresh time (without resorting to changing the bootloader) is to only/mainly use file formats that the OF does not support.

Charles

[chrisjs162216]

I think I got it...just need to wait for the bl to finish

Didn't get it....guess I don't know enough about C. For those who wish to try, it's in bootloader/main-pp.c underr disable_rebuild.

[jac0b]

I was in rockbox IRC and talked to JdGordon and he said he will take a look at it this weekend.

[testdasi]

I open a feature request here http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7207
If anyone uses Linux, please do what jdgordon suggested on the feature request so that he can do it. Thanks.

[saratoga]

Have you tried it under windows?

http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

[jac0b]

When I talked to JdGordon he said that all he really needed was the .mi4 file and he could fix it with that, so I emailed him the EU & A versions of the 1.02.18.

[xandl12]

So is there someone right now, who got that managed?

[testdasi]

Does anyone know how this is working?

[IcerC]

Be nice to skip this.

[digerati1338]

I'll have a look at that code next chance I get.

Note to self: Its under disable_rebuild

Another thread notes that it only works with 1.0.12A firmware...

[neoflame]

One way to prevent database refresh if you don't use the OFW for anything but USB, but don't want to transcode all of your files: Use the e200R firmware for OF.bin, and have less than 6MB of free space on your Sansa. Whenever the e200R firmware boots, if you have less than 6MB free space, you recieve a warning that there is not enough disk space to create the database, and the firmware doesn't try. This only works on e200R firmware as far as I know; for 1.02.15A at least, the firmware goes through the database building process, THEN complains that there isn't enough space to save it.

[lop]

i would love to see that feature to disable the refresh. dont want to use the workaround because sometimes i like to stick with the original firmware.