Port Status
driver |
status |
comments |
LCD |
90% |
No inverse and other fancy stuff. |
Backlight |
100% |
Working. |
Buttons |
100% |
Working. |
SD |
90% |
Basicaly works. DMA handling is suboptimal. Needs more testing. |
NAND |
10% |
Low level driver part is reverse engineered. The work on reverse engineer FTL scheme is started. |
PCM |
100% |
Working. |
Codec |
100% |
Working. |
ADC |
100% |
Working. |
USB |
90% |
The driver is not yet merged see patch on gerrit. There are still some minor issues to be solved and more testing is needed |
Power managment |
90% |
Battery readout & charge working but not calibrated. |
Installation
Windows
- Extract the rockbox build (rockbox-hifietma9.zip) on sd card of your device.
- Download and install PowerISO. Free unregistered version would be enough. Or you can use any analagous program, which could edit image files with FAT filesystem.
- Open OF image file MA9*.img (file located in MA9_Upgrade.zip archive in Image folder) in PowerISO program.
- Copy BASE.RKW file from SYSTEM folder in image to the .rockbox folder on sd card.
- Replace BASE.RKW in OF image with bootloader.rkw (Rename booloader.rkw to BASE.RKW and replace original BASE.RKW in SYSTEM and SYSTEM00 folders).
- Save changes and put derived IMG file into internal storage of your player via RK27Upgrade_Image.exe.
How to use RK27Upgrad_Image.exe
- Connect the device through USB cable with PC, and enter to the ÂUSB mass storage mode.
- ÂRK27 MSC Device will be found, see area (5).
- Press ÂSwitch button (button (2)) to switch to ÂRK27 Loader Device mode, if this is the first time, you will need to install the driver for RK27Loader Device.
- Select the new firmware by pressing the button (4).
- Press ÂUpgrade button(button (1)) to reflash the device, you can see following messages:
After succesfull reflashing the MA9 player will turn ON automatically (if you donÂt unplug the USB cable from PC after reflsahing for the first time it loads the OF because of the automatic dual-boot function). To run the rockbox software just unplug MA9 from PC and reboot it (turn the OFF and ON correspondingly)
Uninstallation
- Download original firmware (OF)
- Boot OF on the MA9 player (turn on device by pressing POWER + any other button or by inserting USB cable)
- Flash the OF via RK27Upgrade_Image.exe software.
- Safely eject your player.
- Shutdown device.
- Boot OF by turning the unit ON
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AndrewRyabinin - 16 May 2013
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