# Iriverh340 and Rockbox

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Dj paddy (The irish Cranky geek) on Saturday, 03-Nov-2007 13:25:52

Anyone flashed the firmware without sight?
I swear that Steve Nuts keystrokes are out of sync on,
http://www.hartgen.org/iriverproducts.html
He says,
"devised a method of updating the iRiver firmware without sighted assistance, which is a necessary component of the installation of Rockbox. This is what
he says:
List of 1 items
1. Copy your firmware to the root of your Iriver's hard disk.
Disconnect the Iriver.
Turn it on, and then hold down the selector, the middle of what I call
the joystick for about a second. This gets you into Iriver's own menu system.
The menu option you want is General, which happens to be the first option. So press the middle of the joystick again briefly to get you into General.
Once in General, arrow down three times, to upgrade firmware, and select it by pressing briefly in the middle of the joystick.
You will now be asked visually if you are sure you want to upgrade the firmware, no is the default, so press left once for yes, then press the middle of
the joystick briefly. You are now updating your firmware. Do
not, I repeat, not, press any buttons on your Iriver at this point. Wait for it to power down, and you are done.
"
This isn't true and I swear when I've flashed Irivers in the past sighted folks have had me go about 5 or more down and not 3.
Anyone know exactly what needs done here?
Somebodys going to be here tomorrow but I really wanna get this player speaking tonight.
BTW. This is my fourth Iriver. Decided to buy a brand new one this time as the others bricked after a year or less.