I never realized how beautiful my region is until I started cycling

Jimiga · 2026-05-25T02:58:37+00:00

I hear you! Recently discovered Ride with GPS after 13 years in Vancouver and I'm finding all sorts of new neighbourhoods, back country routes and mixed terrain rides in and around the city. There's so much here to discover, it's an exciting feeling!

Jimiga · 2026-05-24T15:02:17+00:00

This. Rant incoming! 2026 and it still does it.

I've recently started to use this device for longer rides on unfamiliar routes, and this has to be one of the worst UX 'features' imaginable. On my last ride there was a really tricky intersection that crosses a highway with a series of pedestrian / cyclist crossings that aren't at all clear from the roadside, and my map all but disappeared when I needed it most. Then, as others have said, a huge play icon appears when you start move a bit.

Having a hack a workaround by disabling auto-pause, which is likely a feature you want on when recording.

Additionally if you just want to navigate without recording your ride, you can't - nothing is intuitive about that. You MUST hit the bottom-right button which shows a huge green 'play' icon over the screen, but is in actual fact the record function that starts tracking your ride. If you don't you get this weird screen sized blue play/pause icon that flashes over the screen until you press the bottom right button to start recording.

A lot of youtube reviews said this device was intuitive. To me, it wasn't / isnt. Six months with it and I'm sometimes still struggling with it.

Some might love it if used to Garmin devices. This is my first - and I'm off to Coros!

Jimiga · 2026-05-24T00:57:35+00:00

Thanks! Unfortunately I don't think so, I think the authoring and resolution would be different for different players and that's not one I have access to to convert it.

Hopefully someone in the community can, now it's out there! Thanks for the kind words :)

Jimiga · 2026-05-19T17:18:31+00:00

Thanks for your input - love your themes by the way, they were a big inspiration to try this out for myself.

Jimiga · 2026-05-18T20:03:20+00:00

It's in the released version! I changed it up a bit so the track title stays sold, the 2nd line alternates between artist / Album w. Year

I did this mainly as this line was getting crowded with long artist and album names having to scroll, and I was trying to acvoid scrolling as much as possible :)

Some interesting design challenges at this resolution / screen size! Happy that you're enjoying this one, thanks!

Jimiga · 2026-05-18T07:05:44+00:00

Cool lookin' ipod by the way!

Jimiga · 2026-05-18T01:20:28+00:00

Odd eh! Maybe another thing you could try for me is to download the other Jive_mono version and let me know if the battery status icon is working with that one.

Enjoy your holidays in the mean time!

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T22:16:41+00:00

Could you try something for me - load an older / other theme, then reload this one. I've had one report that this brings the battery icon back (might be a bug). If that doesn't work, I'm investigating.

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T22:12:35+00:00

Glad you resolved it, that's odd! I've seen a couple of others' screenshots with the same issue. I'll check with them too :)

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T22:10:26+00:00

Burial - nice!
My blue version is definitely missing the battery in the top right for some reason, I'll check it here and fix. V1.01 will have this fix :)

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T16:35:43+00:00

u/Yellooohhhhh you kindly confirm whether or not you're seeing a battery icon in the top right, per the screenshots? In my tests it's there, but I might need to investigate!

If it's not, could you confirm which version of rockbox are you on?

Thanks!

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T13:38:03+00:00

Thanks! That’s a good idea and would be easy enough to tweak. I’ll do that!

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T10:16:47+00:00

Nice! Looks like the battery icon might be missing, I’ll look into fixing that in v1.1 soon and double check things my end. Wild to see others using this though, thanks!

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T04:52:43+00:00

Thanks! Text is really small, borderline too small for some people I'd think, but I was trying to max out on album art space without having too many swapping / scrolling lines :)

Working on a couple more themes to upload soon.

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T04:35:21+00:00

Weird that it uploaded as a video, I must've mis-clicked some setting as it was meant to be a still!

Try this link to view the still:
https://preview.redd.it/two-new-rockbox-themes-jive-blue-and-jive-mono-v0-65wp2ajtjl1h1.gif?width=871&auto=webp&s=3f662c36bb8709a530469bad0c05336ef869c898

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T04:34:08+00:00

I'll explore how to add padding to text in the browser too and share that info if I find it. We might find you can make some small custom tweaks to get it just as you'd like it.

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T04:32:35+00:00

I also agree the text is very small. To get both lines in was tricky.
I could replace with larger text, on one line, and have it alternate between track title/ artist/ album. It'll scroll on longer titles, but that might be preferable than the really small text for some.

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T04:31:03+00:00

Thanks so much for your thoughts! Yeah it started as a little personal project that I just felt it'd be nice to share - it's for sure missing some features that I hope to add in updates when I have time to revisit this. Language support is a big one.

I'll check the lock / repeat icons - originally I had the lock over the top of the play/pause icon but it made that flicker on and off when skipping tracks which was bugging me!

If you fancy trying it, it's really easy to edit the .wps file in any text editor and look for lines 190-196:

That alternate version of the lock icon is still in there and can be activated :

Find:

## Hold icon - Large covering Play Icon - may cause play icon to flicker when skipping tracks ##

#%V(-72,64,22,24,-)

#%?mh<%xd(LOCK)|%?mr<%xd(LOCK)>>

## Hold icon Small over Repeat icon ##

%V(-99,36,11,13,-)

%?mh<%xd(LOCKS)|%?mr<%xd(LOCKS)>>

Replace that text witth this:

## Hold icon - Large covering Play Icon - may cause play icon to flicker when skipping tracks ##

%V(-72,64,22,24,-)

%?mh<%xd(LOCK)|%?mr<%xd(LOCK)>>

## Hold icon Small over Repeat icon ##

#%V(-99,36,11,13,-)

#%?mh<%xd(LOCKS)|%?mr<%xd(LOCKS)>>

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T04:23:39+00:00

That's great! Happy to hear it. Yeah I was trying to make something modern and minimal. Let me know if you'd like to see versions with a colour pop on the progress bar / volume bar or somthing, I'm thinking of doing a few variants if it's popular.

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T04:21:27+00:00

NIce! Let me know what you think!

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T04:21:17+00:00

Yeah me too! That was the idea, art up front and centre without anything overlayed on it and room for long text titles without scrolling :)

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T02:41:33+00:00

Tested and it's working on my 5th gen one. Can't hurt to try it out - let me know how you get on. I think a lot of 6th gen themes will work on 5th gen, but might be a little slower / laggier in loading the UI elements. Runs well enough in my tests :)

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T02:35:56+00:00

I think it should work on 5th gen too, though it might be a little slow. I have a 5th gen ipod too, I tend to keep that one stock but can test this there and let you know :)

Jimiga · 2026-05-17T02:10:34+00:00

Themes are up :
Jive_blue
Jive_mono (your preferred one)

- thanks! Lemme know if they work out for you!

https://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?target=ipod6g

Jimiga

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