H3Mod 2.2 is out - Page 2

Lord Julius · #41 (**permalink**) February 4th, 2006, 12:35 PM

Is it proper to start a second post for this? I guess so, since it's a completely
different topic. The latest version is mainly interesting for X5 users, fixing
a few bugs and adding a few pictures and a font. The biggest cross-product
change is in the preview window: if you load an external slide file, H3Mod
will remember it and use that file as the default from then on.

I wonder what will happen to H3Mod, now that Rockbox is getting more and
more popular...

SnoopsterJ · #42 (**permalink**) February 26th, 2006, 08:43 PM

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Latest version of H3Mod: 2.4.2248, published 2006/02/26
Bugfix release, downloading the upgrade is enough.

Fix: opening skin packs failed with a message about the wrong product

Thanks Lord Julius for updating it, even through the entire wps Rockbox hype

moneyforstephen · #43 (**permalink**) February 26th, 2006, 09:24 PM

does this work with rockbox also??... like can u use both rockbox and have the iriver firmware to have modifications also??

Lord Julius · #44 (**permalink**) February 27th, 2006, 06:37 AM

Search function? See for example here:
does skinning also work when rockbox is installed?

tallika_fan · #45 (**permalink**) February 27th, 2006, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by moneyforstephen

does this work with rockbox also??... like can u use both rockbox and have the iriver firmware to have modifications also??

You can indeed mate, i have rockbox on my 340, though for the iriver fw i have the blue aqua skin.

DD · #46 (**permalink**) February 27th, 2006, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by tallika_fan

Quote:

Originally Posted by moneyforstephan

does this work with rockbox also??... like can u use both rockbox and have the iriver firmware to have modifications also??

You can indeed mate, i have rockbox on my 340, though for the iriver fw i have the blue aqua skin.

No, this program isn't for rockbox. Rockbox themes (known as WPSs) are made mainly in basic text editors like Notepad.

Lord Julius · #47 (**permalink**) February 27th, 2006, 11:50 PM

Depends on what the OP means: you can't change the look of rockbox
itself with H3Mod. But you can still modify the original firmware after
rockboxing it. For example, for the times when you want to boot the
original fw to watch videos, and still don't want to suffer from the
iriver candy colour look.

nwr12 · #48 (**permalink**) March 5th, 2006, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Julius

Depends on what the OP means: you can't change the look of rockbox
itself with H3Mod. But you can still modify the original firmware after
rockboxing it. For example, for the times when you want to boot the
original fw to watch videos, and still don't want to suffer from the
iriver candy colour look.

How do you modify the original firmware? I keep getting this message when I load the h300 firmware that was modified with the rockbox patcher and try and put a new skin on there: "The firmware has been modified outside of the areas that are known to be pictures. The position of the change is 2227954. Upgrading your H300 with this firmware may fry it....Are you absolutely sure you want to save it?"

Whats the proper way to add a new skin with the rockbox modified H300 firmware?

Lord Julius · #49 (**permalink**) March 5th, 2006, 11:55 PM

Oh. I relied on another post that said it was possible. Never tried it myself,
I wanted to wait until rockbox gets a grip on the battery life and becomes
a bit less dynamic... Now it seems I have to test it earlier. I'll keep you
informed. For now I suggest not to patch rockboxed firmware, since that
warning tends to make me quite nervous.

mozetti · #50 (**permalink**) March 6th, 2006, 04:36 AM

The order of operations to have a H3Mod'd iRiver FW & Rockbox together on h300 is:

1) D/L iRiver FW
2) Add theme to iRiver FW using H3Mod
3) Save H3Mod'd iRiver FW
4) Run Rockbox FWPatcher.exe on the H3Mod'd iRiver FW you saved in Step 3
5) Flash H300 with the H3Mod'd (first), Rockbox-patched (2nd) firmware created in step 4

Lord Julius · #51 (**permalink**) March 6th, 2006, 12:35 PM

Glad to hear it. The rockbox treatment probably changes bits of the
firmware that are not images, and then H3Mod's paranoid security
checks get confused.

nwr12 · #52 (**permalink**) March 6th, 2006, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mozetti

The order of operations to have a H3Mod'd iRiver FW & Rockbox together on h300 is:

1) D/L iRiver FW
2) Add theme to iRiver FW using H3Mod
3) Save H3Mod'd iRiver FW
4) Run Rockbox FWPatcher.exe on the H3Mod'd iRiver FW you saved in Step 3
5) Flash H300 with the H3Mod'd (first), Rockbox-patched (2nd) firmware created in step 4

Mozetti, when I do step 4 and run the FWPatcher.exe on H3Mod's iRiver FW, I get the error "unrecognized firmware."

nwr12 · #53 (**permalink**) March 6th, 2006, 02:44 PM

Nevermind, I modified the firmware with the fwpatcher first, then ran H3Mod on it, and it's working fine. I didn't get that error message this time either. I have no idea why that error message popped up the first time I tried it.

sebienbon · #54 (**permalink**) March 8th, 2006, 08:23 PM

Hello people! I just found out by this website and i m pretty happy to find some cool stuff for my h320
I just downloaded h3mod a few times but after decompressing it wouldnt start , neither after upgrading....It says: The application failed to start properly..... If u got any tip or idea of why , let me know...Thanks!

mozetti · #55 (**permalink**) March 8th, 2006, 10:29 PM

Have you installed the .Net framework? IIRC, Lord Julius had a link to it on his site. It's required to have that installed for the program to work.

misticbliss · #56 (**permalink**) April 15th, 2006, 12:26 PM

I have successfully changed my skin, thanks. I would like to know more about working with just the font that is shown when displaying a text file. I want to be able to show special characters like an A with a line over it or an S with an accent over it, etc. i.e. Ā,Ś. I can do it here can I some how do it so it will show in a text file on my H320?

I see in H3Mod the Latin Exended has all the characters that I need but I don't know if that is the font that is displayed in the text file.

I don't know if I have to just prepare my text files with a certain font or if I have to change the font in the skin or both..... or neither

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Lord Julius · #57 (**permalink**) April 18th, 2006, 03:24 AM

You don't need to do anything with fonts. The text file has to be in Unicode format and H3Mod will display it fine. A possible tool for saving files as Unicode is notepad. I t may not have many great features, but is one of the most stable unicode text viewers under Windows...
Open your file, Save As, and choose Unicode as the file type.

misticbliss · #58 (**permalink**) April 20th, 2006, 09:22 AM

Thanks LJ. I tried that and had a lot of success. Very helpful. There are still some special characters that did not display such as: ḥ, ṁ, ṛ, ṇ, ṣ and ṭ. There are a number of fonts on my pc that will display these characters including Arial Unicode MS, Microsoft Sans Serif, tahoma and others. The main one I am actually using, because of the transliteration software I have, is URW Palladio ITU. Do you know what font the H320 text viewer is using and what would be the easiest way to have the H320 text file font compatable with what I am using on my pc? Latin extended doesn't seem to have these.

It would be great if the font I am using in notepad showed up exactly the same way it does in the H320. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Lord Julius · #59 (**permalink**) April 21st, 2006, 12:27 AM

That doesn't have so much to do with fonts as with what characters
the firmware handles. If you look at what is listed in the font window
of H3Mod, that is the font used. Just a bitmap, it has nothing to do
with fonts that you know from your PC, H3Mod just convenently converts
PC fonts into H300 bitmaps. No way of changing the character set.

That said, the support covers more or less Basic Latin, Latin-1 and Latin
Extended A, see http://www.unicode.org/charts/ What you're looking for
is some seriously weird stuff I haven't come across in any language. Not
what a music jukebox generally needs, so I can't blame iriver for not
handling it. Short of rewriting the firmware, you can't extend the character
set. Maybe rockbox has full unicode support?

cotswall · #60 (**permalink**) April 30th, 2006, 07:20 PM

Is your site down LJ? I clicked the link in first post, and got a " cannot find" message

Lord Julius · #61 (**permalink**) May 1st, 2006, 02:51 AM

It's alive and kicking. Either a temporary downtime or a problem on your side of the wire, I'm afraid.

Lord Julius · #62 (**permalink**) June 11th, 2006, 10:32 AM

A new version is out, with the main focus on T10 fonts and a bit of usability.
- adjustable font width, manual and automatic, for some T10 font
replacements
- Registry replaced by XML file for settings (ATTENTION: you will get the
default settings again when you open the new version. No harm done, since
it is just some window positions etc.)
- Recent files list in all file dialogs.
- updated help file

And in case you don't have the link handy: http://www.cerebus.de/iriver

**saab_rider** · #63 (**permalink**) June 13th, 2006, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Lord Julius

adjustable font width, manual and automatic, for some T10 font

Hello LJ, quick question. Are fonts now adjustable on the H300 as well, or is this just T10 specific?

Lord Julius · #64 (**permalink**) June 13th, 2006, 07:21 AM

T10 only. They have a different format that stores the width before each
character, the H3xx doesn't have that. Some of the smaller H3xx fonts have
tables for that, but not the main fonts; at least I couldn't find them. So I did
not bother to add editing for those few, not worth the effort.