Features and Improvements
- Hiby R1 Touchless Navigation: Implemented a custom keymap enabling full Rockbox navigation without the touchscreen, added Prev/Rewind button.
- Audiobooks: Included a specialized audiobook settings profile (
audiobook-mod-config.cfg) with 30-second skips, auto-bookmarking, and M4B chapter support (via CUE generation). - Bluetooth: Integrated bidhata's patches with major improvements:
- Replaced
sys_serverwithbluetoothctlfor more reliable connection handling. - Added support for Bluetooth headset media buttons.
- Added direct Bluetooth management in the Status menu (Enable/Disable, Codec switching).
- Replaced
- Touch Controls: Included gestures, swipes, and kinetic scrolling by amachronic.
- Bootloader: Modified Rockbox bootloader to persist Bluetooth state across reboots and adjusted button mappings for Hiby R1.
- PictureFlow: Added support for embedded album art.
- ImageViewer: Tries to display JPG images in fullscreen and supports viewing embedded album art in ogg/opus files.
- Includes other useful community patches like USB DAC and Touchscreen keyboard by Michael McAllister.
- Big bunch of other fixes and improvements (see full list of changes here).
Downloads
HiBy R1:
- Rockbox: rockbox_hibyr1_bahusoid_26.08.08.zip
- 1.8b2 firmware with modified Rockbox bootloader: hibyr1_1.8b2_bahusoid_rb_26.08.07.zip
- Bootloader (needed only for manual firmware patching): bootloader.r1
HiBy R3 Pro II:
- Rockbox: rockbox_hibyr3proii_bahusoid_26.08.08.zip
- 1.4b4 firmware with modified Rockbox bootloader: hibyr3proii_1.4b4_bahusoid_rb_26.08.08.zip
- Bootloader (needed only for manual firmware patching): bootloader.r3proii