What's the latest on the radio tuner reboot bug?

I *think* this has been previously reported. could be wrong. When listening to the tuner for a period of time, it randomly reboots, not easily reproduced... but can happen several times in an hour. The funny part is the radio keeps playing as the unit reboots, and at some point through the reboot cycle the sound clicks off and clicks back on again. So if I'm not watching the empeg, if the sound goes off and on for a short click, it usually means it rebooted. :-( Any word on this yet?

Calvin

Umm, has it been discussed before? I often listen to the radio for long periods and have never seen this happen (v2-beta-something).

Rob

Bugzilla number 1218, currently marked as "Unconfirmed".

Calvin, what software version are you running?

That would be v2.00-beta11 with Hijack 246.

It definitely reboots. I don't know what to do to reproduce it other than to watch and listen for a while.

Calvin

246? Join the new millennium, we're at v278!

I'm conservative. Whenever I hit a bright spot that is fairly stable I hunker down for a while. But seriously, is the issue with the tuner reboots a hijack one??? I haven't heard of that... if that is true I'll try to upgrade.

Calvin

There were some overall stability fixes, including these two which may or may not be related, but are good to have in any event:

v263 Button-illumination fixes; kernel built WITH frame-pointers.
v277 Lucky-Sevens Release: fixed (rare) Day-1 jiffies bug in Hijack.

I had tuner flakiness including lockups and reboots in older hijack versions, but have not had any in recent weeks and months.

Is this bug still open or unconfirmed?

My player (2.0b13 & Hj310) rebooted twice today while I was trying to retune.

I had spent the previous 10-mins searching for stations using long-left/right front button presses and storing the occasional preset along the way. Just before the reboot it was showing full signal strength on a station but the reception was a little sketchy. I started searching either side of the frequency to see if things got better and after 4 or 5 attempts it rebooted. I can't remember the first occasion in as much detail but I was definitely searching/tuning at the time.

Bug is marked as "resolved- Works for me." The empeg guys couldn't reproduce it.

Question:

Are you using the info mode called "INFO: LINE" when you listen to the radio?

If so, that's the problem. Known bug in Beta 13. When you leave info:line up, the player randomly reboots. Has nothing to do with the tuner.

Are you using the info mode called "INFO: LINE" when you listen to the radio?

I'm not certain what "INFO: LINE" looks like. I never chose a display mode for radio and for mp3 it's always set to TRACK display.
I can't get to the car ATM, so, from memory: It's a static display (apart from the station's scrolling promotional text) roughly as follows:

[AF / TA / TP indicators]
[Preset #] [Station Name]
[antenna symbol] [Signal Strength] [RDS indicator] [time?]
[Scrolling station promotional text (updated over-air)]

Does that answer your question?

Hit the "Info" button and it will show you the mode names.
However, the info mode you describe isn't line mode.

It's set to INFO:Radio

I tried and succeeded in getting it to reboot again today;

After 10 minutes of listening to radio and occasionally hopping between preset stations I started to search for new ones. A few minutes later I decided to see if I could make it reboot like it had yesterday. While it was briefly searching in one direction I pressed the opposite button to search back the other way, after about 10 attempts the buttons became unresponsive and it rebooted ~15 seconds later. I think the off station background noise was present right up until the reboot started if that's relevant.

I spent the remaining 15 minutes pressing buttons trying to reproduce it a second time without success.

Reminds me of that joke:
Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this" (Patient pokes himself in the eye)
Doctor: "Then stop doing that!"

I've had the misfortune to have to help somebody like that. They kept complaining about how their files just disappeared. It turns out they were putting it into the recycle bin. Still to this day not worked out what they were trying to accomplish. They weren't too happy when I told them that they shouldn't do that and the reason everything kept disappearing was because it was being deleted and that they wouldn't be able to get it back easily.

- Trevor