EchoPod 0.8.0

EchoPod 0.8.0, 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.

New

• Portrait mode. Settings → Orientation → Portrait or Portrait, flipped turns the screen upright straight away, and the player starts that way next time. Home shows the album art under the menu, Now Playing puts the cover above the track, Cover Flow scrolls albums from top to bottom, the Custom EQ shows its seven bands as rows, and lists show 11 rows. Long messages, such as the update progress, wrap onto more lines so they fit. The volume rocker turns with the screen, so the button on top moves up through lists; in Portrait (not flipped) it also turns the volume down.

When you update

• Your library, settings, equalizer and Bluetooth headphones stay as they are. Orientation starts on Landscape.

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.