Setting time / Sleep function
 

I have MP4 player ,firmware ver 3.2.16 , it has five buttons on front ,play in middle , Mode,Rec and Skip left/right. (doesn't have vol buttons)

I have 2 problems with it:
1. Cant set the time/date. When I enter screen to set time/date , none of the buttons do anything ,it doesn't matter if i press quickly or long press - (except REC button switches from lock to unlock)

2. Maby related to 1 ,when I set my sleep time , my player screen still stays on during playing music, the screen just dims a little after say 10sec , but doesn't switch off. The off function does work for me.

Please Help !!
Thanks!!

dreamadream, when setting the clock pushing the play button should move you through the time and date settings. The left or right buttons will change the settings up or down.

Also you may find you need to set both of the settings under the Brightness setting (darkle and black)

Re: Setting time / Sleep function
 

Thanks for reply taddad1

when I press play button in set time/date screen nothing happens!

I have my brightness set to 6 , darkness and darkle set to 0 , but when i set my sleep to 10 for eg , the screen doesn't switch off.

Does anyone have same trouble ? does anyone know what to do?

Please Help!

Thanks!

Re: Setting time / Sleep function
 

I've just sussed out how to get sleep function to work !! Hallalulya!!

On my player ,when i set the darkle to 10 the dark goes to 10 ,same if i set darkle to 20 the dark goes to 20 ..and so on.

Now if I set the sleep to 10 when darkle is 10 - the player will sleep while music is playing. ...And... if I set the sleep to 20 while darkle is 10 the screen just dims slightly instead of sleeping.

So once the sleep is set to the same number as the darkle and dark settings - the screen will go off while listening to music. If the numbers are different the screen will just dim.

It still leaves me with the problem of not fixing the clock ,but i noticed each time i go back into clock screen the time has changed , so the clock is on..i'm not too worrying about setting it.

Hopefully this can help out someone else out there !!

dreamadream, You are setting the wrong thing. Darkness and darkle need to be set to 10 or what ever setting you want.

Sleep is a timer that sets the player to switch off after a set number of minutes, used if you want to go to sleep listening to music if you set it to 30 it will play for 30 minutes then turn the player off.

Re: Setting time / Sleep function
 

tadad1
your right , the sleep makes it sleep after 10 minutes or whatever...

its strange though , because when i set the sleep function , the screen does go off while you listen to music for 10 minutes or whatever..

And when i set the off function to 10 ..nothing seems to happen ??? the screen doesn't even dim ??

ANy ideas' ??

dreamadream, If you are refering to the Power off\Off time setting this is a power saving feature. This setting is for the player to switch off after a set time if there is no activity. So if you are playing music it will not work it only works if the player is on and doing nothing then it will switch itself off after the set time.

tadda1, you are describing how it should work ... but i have the same problem that hime.

I have two different mp4/ipodclone player, and one of them works exactly as you say, but the other not :( they have the same config options sleep/poweroff etc but in the second one the screen dimmer is not working.

I dont know if it is the reason, but every time i setup the clock, it remains until i switch off the on/off button :(

In my other player i dont need to switch off the on/off button because i put it off holding the Play button for a few seconds.

But in the second one if i hold the play button, the player goes throught the bye-bye screen, it shuts down, but the screen stays black-but-with-backlight turned on :(

Maybe to research about the clock problem is our only solution :(

Aiken

Aiken, If your backlight is staying on it sounds more like a fault with the player rather than a settings issue.

I'll take a look to the board-id, i want to be sure it's not a design problem. Thanks anyway ;)
Aiken

Re: Setting time / Sleep function
 

I still have no joy in getting the screen to go off while playing music

Would it be possible to fix this problem by changing the firmware?

dreamadream, I would not try changing firmware as an option or you could end up with the reverse and have a screen that does not turn on.

However what you could try is extracting your firmware with s1fwx then running the repair.bat and then reupload it to your player.

To recap check these settings.
1.Set the clock
2.Settings\LCD set\Darkle = 10
3.Settings\LCD set\Black =10
4.Settings\Power off\Off Time =0
5.Settings\Power off\Sleep time = 0

Re: Setting time / Sleep function
 

tadad1 - thanks for your help , its working now!

I done the settings as above - the diff was i think when in darkle and black i pressed the play button with the settings at zero.

now the screen goes off while the player is on when playing or not - which is perfect. even when i charge the batt, i can go into music (without pressing play music) and the screen goes off during charge.

i#m a happy dude
cheers man!

dreamadream, Good to hear you got it sorted. The little things can be so frustrating. :)

dreamadream

Just to recap, can you tell us what you changed and by doing so, what does your player do now? This is to clarify so I can put it together as a "Knowledge Base".

tadad1, thanks for your input in this as well as always.

Re: Setting time / Sleep function
 

just to recap , my player is using firmware 3.2.16.

I set brightness to 6 (although i dont think this is a factor)

I set LCD/Darkle to 10 (Ensure you press 'play' to confirm)
I set LCD/Dark to 10 (Ensure you press 'play' to confirm)

I set Sleep and OFf settings to zero (Ensure you press 'play' to confirm)


I think the key is to press play to confirm each setting. Once set up the screen will go off after a few seconds even though the player stays on (exception is of coarse when playing a video file). Settings will stay once you use play button to turn off/on player.

Hope this can help someone else out there!!