Hi Guys,
I would like to share some experience with my DX50. I'm very happy with this player. It sounds great. The official firmware also boots once in a while and the touchscreen reacts
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As a rockbox lover and longtime user (iriver H120 since 2005, clipplus, fuze, D2, X5) I had to try Rockbox on it. And my first impression was: it cannot be used with this player because this touchscreen is much to sensitive and the rockbox touchscreen handling is not the greatest. So I tried to use the 3x3 grid mode and i was able to control the player. But it is not a very intuitive way of using it (at least no one will steel the player
). And then I stumbled over a theme called rayboradio_OB. With this theme I was able to use the standard touchscreen mode. And it looks great also. Now i didn't find the theme to be highly optimized for touchscreens so I decided to modify it myself.
Please feel free to try it out (Zip File). All credits go to Humberto Santana for the theme and to Immolate for the graphics.
Download:
http://freakshare.com/files/g46urqs2/rayboradio_OB_mod_7.3c1.zip.html
or:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5tbv2f
The changes I did (the things I remember):
- Renamed the theme to _mod
- gave it the Version v7.3c1
- made almost all touchscreen areas bigger (this was problably the most important step)
- added a "resume" button on the Menu screen (how I missed it before...)
- added a quickmenu and a context menu button on top left and right
- removed all crossfade information and switch (is not important enough imho)
- replaced the cheap volume knob with a more durable one
- removed the clock (DX50 doesn't have one)
- replaced text like "unknown artist" with translatable tags
- replaced the logo on the main screen with the rockbox logo (sorry Humberto)
info: the volume slide control is intentional removed. In my opinion it was not usable with this touchscreen.
Here are some explanations about touchscreen areas:
Keep on rockboxing!
cholero