HiBy R6 III (Gen 3) Android digital audio player, Dual ES9038Q2M, Class A / AB amplification switch, Snapdragon 665, Open Android 12 OS, DSD512 / PCM768

Sep 21, 2023 at 4:55 AM Post #1,006 of 1,821
@Joe Bloggs

I found the original 1.3 FW upgrade fine. The newest 1.31 seems to have gone a little backwards. We should NOT in any way have to do a 'Factory Reset' to overcome the problems....THAT is HiBy laziness. Please turn FW 1.31 into CLEAN Firmware. That is your jobs at HiBy. The R6 III is a great bit of hardware and needs, stable, clean, bug free FW/Software.
 
Sep 21, 2023 at 5:52 AM Post #1,007 of 1,821
@Joe Bloggs

I found the original 1.3 FW upgrade fine. The newest 1.31 seems to have gone a little backwards. We should NOT in any way have to do a 'Factory Reset' to overcome the problems....THAT is HiBy laziness. Please turn FW 1.31 into CLEAN Firmware. That is your jobs at HiBy. The R6 III is a great bit of hardware and needs, stable, clean, bug free FW/Software.
I have my "time problem" with the v.1.30, didn't have a notification for the 1.31 (it's a minor problem, but well.. it's here). But on the positive side, i noticed that the stand-by mode works well: battery consumption is really low.
It's a bit of a shame these inconveniences, and I hope they can fix everything because this DAP is great
 
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Sep 21, 2023 at 5:54 AM Post #1,008 of 1,821
Is anyone also have a problem that the volume indicator on status bar not update when you only increase/decrease one level of volume? This is only happen for me when my screen is turn on and I'm not in lock screen.
 
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Sep 21, 2023 at 7:40 AM Post #1,009 of 1,821
Okay this is a weird one for you. I upgraded to fw 1.31 and i have noticed the tuning of the device has changed. It seems to shimmer in the treble now least out of the 3.5mm line out. I am running it through a nx7 as my amp. It definitely didnt sound like that before the update. Ill go through and check settings to be sure
 
Sep 21, 2023 at 5:32 PM Post #1,012 of 1,821
A public service announcement regarding TIDAL on our devices

Currently, TIDAL (builds starting from 2.87.1 that included Max level FLACs) does not seem to be working properly for devices of Android version 10 or below.
I included my investigation results (how I arrived at this conclusion) here: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/tidal-lossless-streaming.733233/page-340#post-17695132

One solution is for us to upgrade all our DAPs to 11 and up, but as some of you know, our ability to do update the Android version is pretty much tied to the SoC used and the SDK provided. 😅

Another solution, since the app does allow installation on all our DAPs ranging down to Android 6, is for TIDAL to make use of the info given above to debug the app for older versions of Android, so that they will actually run properly on devices they would install on. 😀

As of this writing, the last TIDAL version I tested that functioned properly, was 2.86.0 . I include a link to its installer here
https://d.apkpure.com/b/APK/com.aspiro.tidal?versionCode=1121

I will try to update here when this issue has been resolved.

Best regards,
Joe
HiBy Music

Tidal seems to be working correctly now on my Hiby R5. Tidal version 2.91 beta...
 
Sep 21, 2023 at 11:12 PM Post #1,013 of 1,821
Tidal seems to be working correctly now on my Hiby R5. Tidal version 2.91 beta...
Yeah, I think 2.91 is starting to get the oldsters to play everything again.

Well, almost.

My Shanling M6 Pro 21 will play the new FLAC stuff great now with the 2.91 beta but balks at anything MQA. Try any track from Elina Duni A Time to Remember; it's entirely MQA. My Shanling just stops and stutters and generally refuses to play that one and any other MQA track.

FLAC though is great in the M6 Pro after I did a cache clear and settings reset in the app.

It may play for you as you're at Android 8.1 even with your 16x decoder. Weirdly my Acer tablet stuck at lowly Android 7.0 will now play all FLAC and MQA like a champ in 2.91 vs. the Shanling. I don't know but it may be the Android 7.1.1 in the Shanling, but more importantly the hardware decoding of the M6 Pro just doesn't work properly on MQA stuff in this latest Tidal, whereas the Acer just does the first unfold in software and isn't bothered about hardware decoding.
 
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Sep 22, 2023 at 12:39 AM Post #1,014 of 1,821
Hey Guys, hope you all are doing good.
Updated the R6iii to 1.31 and after that I am not able to play any songs on spotify nor any videos on you tube. But yes I am able to browse online - just nit able to play anything.
Any solutions....

Cheers Rahul
Reported to headquarters... 😢
 
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Sep 22, 2023 at 12:44 AM Post #1,015 of 1,821
@Joe Bloggs

I found the original 1.3 FW upgrade fine. The newest 1.31 seems to have gone a little backwards. We should NOT in any way have to do a 'Factory Reset' to overcome the problems....THAT is HiBy laziness. Please turn FW 1.31 into CLEAN Firmware. That is your jobs at HiBy. The R6 III is a great bit of hardware and needs, stable, clean, bug free FW/Software.
Sorry, we literally have no idea why this is even happening at this point. It's not happening with any consistency as to be able to pinpoint a fault in the firmware upgrade process let alone the firmware itself.

Just passing on the message...
 
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Sep 22, 2023 at 12:50 AM Post #1,016 of 1,821
Hey Guys, hope you all are doing good.
Updated the R6iii to 1.31 and after that I am not able to play any songs on spotify nor any videos on you tube. But yes I am able to browse online - just nit able to play anything.
Any solutions....

Cheers Rahul
Received word from headquarters that his problem was solved after updating the system time and date.
 
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Sep 22, 2023 at 1:01 AM Post #1,017 of 1,821
1.31 all works fine on me except the name of pluggins and mesb error, factory reset solved the problem.

What I consider still is the LDAC audio input bluetooth, it stuttering like random blip sound (like a bad connection) from my samsung s22+ and tab s8, please report this, or any solution? If I don't use LDAC (high quality 96khz) and turn into default standard quality AAC 44khz its all fine. Thank you
 
Sep 22, 2023 at 9:10 AM Post #1,019 of 1,821
Just a report...
Updated to 1.31 and MSEB/Plugins show fine here.
The issue with some apps (like DI.FM and HypeMachine) crashing on open still persists.
 
Sep 22, 2023 at 11:49 AM Post #1,020 of 1,821
My Hiby music app still keeps crashing even if all I do is adjust volume this does not happen in any other music app on the player I have factory reset problem still occurs
 

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