[420204]

Long time no see guys--sorry I've been out of the loop, as non-FiiO related obligations and subpar health have been keeping me down :|

Anyway, here's some good news--first firmware update for the X5 2nd gen is available--and it's a stable release too!

http://www.head-fi.org/t/776861/official-x5-2nd-gen-stable-firmware-thread-fw1-1-significant-stability-reliability-upgrades

Joe

just flashed it on my X5.
too bad you're still not considering a faster screen timeout and idle standby.

 

[Klonatans]

It wasn't planned, but just pulled a trigger. Just couldn't resist to a once opened and in fact brand new X5 II. Most probably my wife is gonna get it as her Sony NW-F887 got some water therapy yesterday. Maybe it will come back to life but it's very likely that the Sony is gone.

 

[ASpencer]

  Most probably my wife is gonna get it as her Sony NW-F887 got some water therapy yesterday. Maybe it will come back to life but it's very likely that the Sony is gone.

Was it rain, bath or some other wetting?

 

[fleasbaby]

  It wasn't planned, but just pulled a trigger. Just couldn't resist to a once opened and in fact brand new X5 II. Most probably my wife is gonna get it as her Sony NW-F887 got some water therapy yesterday. Maybe it will come back to life but it's very likely that the Sony is gone.

 
I had a Sony that took a dip in the dog's water bowl. I submerged it in dry rice for a few days to no avail, so I chucked it in a drawer. A year later charged it up, and everything worked beautifully...

 

[Klonatans]

  Was it rain, bath or some other wetting?

It was water in a bottle thet opened in a bag. I hope it resurrect soon.

 

[Klonatans]

   
I had a Sony that took a dip in the dog's water bowl. I submerged it in dry rice for a few days to no avail, so I chucked it in a drawer. A year later charged it up, and everything worked beautifully...

It's now put in rice in a hot attic to get dry. If it's going to work again I'll have another DAP besides my buggy AK100 Mk2. By the way has somebody here compared these two machines (AK100 MK2 and Fiio X II)? I think their SQ might be comparable.

 

[KLJTech]

Long time no see guys--sorry I've been out of the loop, as non-FiiO related obligations and subpar health have been keeping me down :|

Anyway, here's some good news--first firmware update for the X5 2nd gen is available--and it's a stable release too!

http://www.head-fi.org/t/776861/official-x5-2nd-gen-stable-firmware-thread-fw1-1-significant-stability-reliability-upgrades

Joe

 
I hope your health improves and that you're feeling much better very soon. 
 
Thanks for the heads up on the new FW! 

 

[ASpencer]

 
It was water in a bottle thet opened in a bag. I hope it resurrect soon.

I hope so too.  I once resuscitated a unit that encountered a spill, someone else's clumsiness, by using a blow-dryer set to fan, then setting it under glass for two days and it reawakened without any problems.

 

[420204]

 
It's now put in rice in a hot attic to get dry. If it's going to work again I'll have another DAP besides my buggy AK100 Mk2. By the way has somebody here compared these two machines (AK100 MK2 and Fiio X II)? I think their SQ might be comparable.

I have both of them with me right now, and I don't think they are comparable. the AK sounds way better to me. more refined, precise and airy. 
A review about the AK100II is in progress. But I don't know if I'm going to compare it to the X5II since it doesn't even come close to it pricewise and SQ wise (at least to me).

 

[warrior1975]

I think you are referring to a different model, ak100ii as opposed to the older ak100 mk2.

 

[420204]

I think you are referring to a different model, ak100ii as opposed to the older ak100 mk2.

Oh, I'm sorry. The modelnumbers of the AK100 and AK120 get me confused sometimes.

I mean the newest AK100 II

 

[Klonatans]

Oh, I'm sorry. The modelnumbers of the AK100 and AK120 get me confused sometimes.


I mean the newest AK100 II

Yep, I meant the first generation AK100 with 3 Ohm impedance. Probably X5 II should be compared with AK Jr. as they share the same DAC (with first gen AK100) and are closer price wise.

 

[Simon Templar]

   
I had a Sony that took a dip in the dog's water bowl. I submerged it in dry rice for a few days to no avail, so I chucked it in a drawer. A year later charged it up, and everything worked beautifully...

 
You're lucky. My wife decided to run my 60gb iPod Video (now Classic) through the laundry....on the very day that Apple pulled the Classic off the shelves.  
 
No matter what I do, it makes a great paperweight.
 
 
 
 
....sT

 

[Light - Man]

  Oh, I'm sorry. The modelnumbers of the AK100 and AK120 get me confused sometimes.

I mean the newest AK100 II

Guys, I have said it before that someone at AK can only count as far as 2 while others in the price department count only in big bucks!!!
 
First there was the Ak100 then came the revised AK100 mkII and then came the latest AK100ii

 
Perhaps also consider the Hidizs AP100.

 

[DeLaw]

See if anyone that has loaded the new firmware 1.1 has the problem of OTG songs will only play one song at a time.
I had to go back to 1.0 firmware to make them play normal.