Hi,
I really love the 1.22 ROM. It makes my Dynamism C700 about what I had originally hoped for when I got the unit in March 2003.
Can you tell me if reflashing with a larger root partition size might help me? I too have some applications that seem to install properly, but when you start them, the icon just stays frozen, like its trying to start. I don't have my SL-C700 with me, so I can't give you the spefic apps, but this happens with 5 or 6 programs I downloaded and tried to get running.
Also, kino2 just doens't seem to work right. It starts up, takes forever to get to the file list, and when I start playing an mp3 file, it takes about 15 seconds to start playing, usually well into the begining of the song. Then the song is "choppy" for about 5 seconds, then finally settles out and plays. The play bar and time run time of song are never right either. They always seem to come up with 1:03 minutes, no matter that the song I'm playing is 9 minutes long. The progress bar gets to the end and stays there, and the progress minutes counts correctly, but you end up with 1:03 of song, and the running play time increments to the proper value. I can live with the bar thing, but the slow start / choppiness is bothersome.
Here's a dumb question. Could any of these problems be related to the fact that I have an original SL-C700, the first of the CXXX series? Since it has the smallest amount of maximum RAM/ROM, could this be an issue? Does the 1.22 ROM "work better" on the later units with more RAM/ROM?
I use my C700 as an mp3 player every couple of weeks when I travel to Albuquerque. The old Sharp ROM mplayer worked fine for my needs. The kino2 just doens't work well enough for me.
If I can't fix the underlying problem, is there a quicker less capable mp3 player you guys can recommend? I don't need video, just mp3 audio. If this post is in the wrong place, I appologize, feel free to put it in the right place.
Thanks,
Stu
(yes, another Stu!)