MJ Ray: Samsung YP-U2 Firmware (3)
I listened to my YP-U2 quite a bit
on my recent travels. It worked fairly well.
On my return, I remembered that I had a few
comments to post from my old YP-U2 upgrade
problems article...
David Weinehall wrote:
"FWIW, my YP-U2 also has problems playing some oggs (nothing low bit-rate about them though; they're encoded with -q6); this is with version 1.418 of the firmware =/ On Samsung's site there seems to be a new version (1.43) available; too bad they don't mention what has been fixed."dann frazier commented:
"Links/discussion about ogg support in these device can be found here: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Talk:PortablePlayersSamsungYepp#YP-U2 I had to use a friend's Windows computer to do the upgrade :("Erik Rossen writes:
"I have a Samsung YP-U2RZW (code for YP-U2, with Radio, 1GB of space, White case) that I bought today. The firmware version is "1.41 EU" according to system/system.var. And playback of medium quality OGG (44100 Hz, ~160032 bps) has serious stuttering problems. The latest firmware available on the UK Samsung site is 1.43. I too would love to know what files to copy to system/ (or wherever) so that I could do the upgrade from Linux, but I am probably going to end up booting WinXP for this task."Scott Testerman comments:
"I don't have one of these players, but I wonder if this post is of any help to you? http://err.no/personal/blog/tech/2006-12-13-22-25_Samsung_Z5F.html"Interesting, but sadly, the YP-U2 upgrades I have don't include a dat file. I wonder if this is what Samsung's support engineer was trying when he told me to copy all the files to the device's root. Does anyone have more info? Last time I chased Samsung about their promise of Linux upgrade instructions, I was asked to phone back in an evening when the member of staff who promised would be there. I still haven't had time to do that (there are other things to do most evenings - why won't they call me?). As far as I can tell, Samsung's Linux upgrade support sucks. I've bought a few Samsung devices and been fairly happy (far better than Canon, for example), but if I buy one again, I'll expect upgrades not to work.