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@BasilSkyWalk BasilSkyWalk released this 01 Nov 09:57
v0.9.0
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EchoPod 0.9.0, 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

  • Languages. Settings → Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish. The choice is saved and applies after you restart the player (the toast says so). Menus, settings, the equalizer, Bluetooth, USB, the updater and the diagnostics all follow it. The English text is no longer part of the firmware's code: every language, English included, is a small pack stored in the image and read when the player starts, which also leaves more free room for code than before.
  • The translations are unreviewed. They were written by Claude and no native speaker has checked them; the Chinese starts from chuqiao's translation (pull request 11). Some long texts may wrap or be cut on the small screen, and this version's screens haven't been checked language by language on the player yet. Corrections are welcome as changes to assets/lang/<code>.txt.

Fixed

  • Cyrillic, Greek, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and Vietnamese letters in track, artist and album names show instead of ? (reported by Katsuki, issue 7).
  • A long text that doesn't fit its box is no longer cut in the middle of a character.

When you update

  • Your library, settings, equalizer, orientation and Bluetooth headphones stay as they are. The language starts on English.
  • The settings file gains a language byte. Going back to 0.8.1 or earlier makes that older firmware ignore the file and start from default settings.
  • The Battery low notice shown before the player's storage starts, and the panic screen, stay in English.

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.

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