EchoPod 0.7.1

EchoPod 0.7.1, replacement firmware for the Snowsky (FiiO) Echo Mini 8 GB.

Use it at your own risk. EchoPod is early, has been tested on one player, and comes with no warranty. Read the known issues and make sure you could recover the player through maskrom before you install.

Fixed

• The first start with a FAT32 card no longer looks frozen. With a FAT32 microSD card full of music, the first start after installing could stay on a black screen for minutes while the player set up its files on the card, so it looked like it wouldn't boot. It now finds the free space on the card in one pass instead of one pass per file, and shows "Setting up the card..." while it works. exFAT cards weren't affected.

When you update

• Your library, settings, covers, equalizer and Bluetooth headphones stay as they are.

Full notes: docs/release-notes.md.

Install

Follow the user guide. Already on EchoPod: copy HIFIEC90.IMG to the top level of the player's internal storage (ECHO MINI), eject both drives and unplug; the player installs it. From FiiO firmware 3.7.0, 3.9.0 or 4.0.0: copy HIFIEC90.IMG to the top level of the player's internal storage, eject, unplug, take the microSD card out and restart. Installing from Windows is the tested route. One tester whose FiiO firmware kept refusing the file got it to install after first updating to FiiO's 3.8 firmware.

Check the download first: the SHA-256 of HIFIEC90.IMG must match SHA256SUMS.txt.

Your music goes on the microSD card; EchoPod doesn't read music from internal storage.

The 512 MB Echo Mini is not supported.