I may have solved a similar problem. Go back to around page 32 onward to see what and how. 1. if your new cards are of very large capacity and/or 2. you are using a music player that ‚phones home‘ upon startup.

Has anyone here ever tried a RAM upgrade on his X5iii? Is it even possible? I found a PDF with specifications of the internals, a datasheet of the RK3188 chip, to be more specific, and it states that it's "compatible with JEDEC standard DDR3/LPDDR2 SDRAM up to 1066MHz and up to 2GB or RAM...

I don't know how and why, but startup is unstable again. I keep having to remove the cards before I power-up again. This seems to happen because I set up screen-lock. Removing the screen-lock makes boot-up normal again. Phew!

Separately.

storage is checked at system start. If you go into Settings > Storage, you can see that, initially, both SD cards are grayed-out, then the cards are checked (‘calculating’) until the bar is filled according to capacity and free space. I’d say it takes about a minute, or so, for both cards to be...

I think the default FiiO music player is so bad, IT was basically the reason this whole firmware modding effort started in the first place. No, I didn’t test inserting just ONE of the cards to see if the system was more stable that way, but I do remember reading here or in some other thread...

I'm probably the latest addition to the modded X5iii community. At least I'm the latest to post a question regarding the modded firmware, it seems. I bought a brand new (probably manufactured in 2018, but otherwise unused) X5iii plus two 1TB MicroSD cards by PNY. Flashing the firmware is a...

Still seeing some "interesting" behavior: Every time I power-down, reboot, wake-from-sleep, unplug the USB or - IIRC - sometimes even the headphone cable, the FiiO freezes up. I've tried lowering the CPU frequency, have "frozen" non-essential apps that I thought might be causing bottlenecks...

Go to page one of this thread. The process is a little more complex, but it’s very well explained.

Excellent! Yes, that’s it! Thanks!

Very happy with the new toy, thanks again to jkbuha and prispewnic for their amazing work, and everyone else for their input. A couple of questions: 1. Whenever I make some major changes (most notably, so far, when I add a considerate amount of new files to the SD card) the system freezes...

Picked up the player yesterday, spent deep into the night setting up and running all the upgrades and tweeks (with the obligatory pulling-out-of-hair included), and have the FiiO running great right now, as I fill the storage up with music files. Sooooo many settings, sooooo much stuff to learn...

Great points! Thanks for the insight. I have a huge music collection I’ve always wanted to be able to take with me. Not interested in streaming, so much.

I found a bargain on eBay, and kinda liked the fact that people had significantly improved it in a group effort. As far as I know the X5iii is one of only a few, if not the only DAP, to have its source code released to the public. I like the ‘tinkering‘ involved. Wish me luck! 🙂 Any...

I’ll be getting my X5III shortly. Haven’t gotten to my choice of player yet. Need to go through all the ‚tweaking‘ first. Wish me luck.