Will the i5 ever get new firmware?

[foreigngadgetlove]

I'm still holding off purchasing an i5 on the hope that some new US-spec firmware will come out. I know Cowon have probably been busy with the X5 in recent months and therefore haven't been able to give much attention to other products, but we don't even have an official US version of the 1.15 firmware!

They've been updating the X5 like crazy though, but that's probably because it's more important as a product than the i5.

Still disappointing...I want to know that Cowon is dedicated to supporting the i5 before I buy it.

Come on Cowon, show some love to the i5! :)

[exapno]

I think you're right, they're probably concertrating on the X5 because it's more important and it's new and has technical "issues".

My I5 has the 1.15 firmware on it and everything works fine.

[Tempus]

It is, however, a valid point that releasing the US version of the firmware which they have already released in Korea would be a simple and easy thing to do.

If they believe that the 1.15 firmware works correctly, they should release the US version. If they DON'T believe that the 1.15 firmware works correctly, they shouldn't have released it in Korea.

[exapno]

True. Compiling American and European versions of the firmware can't be rocket science.

[foreigngadgetlove]

Hey! It appears there is a US version of 1.15 on www.iaudio.com !!!

[exapno]

It's seems to be the same as the 1.15 that's already out although when used firmware version is "1.15e".

Still a screen full of nonsense when you install it though...

[foreigngadgetlove]

Interesting...

Oh well, I hope to order my i5 2GB in about a week. I can't wait any longer. :D

[Jim Hogan]

Think twice before ordering the I5 2GB model. Cowon has acknowledged a design defect (which limits actual capacity to 450 files/folders or essentially about the same capacity as the 1GB model.) See other forum posts about this defect for details. You'd be better off buying two 1GB players .....

[timc18]

how come the 1.15e firmware doesnt work on www.iaudio.com? it's only a 12kb file

If i download the chinese firmware, will I be able to change the menu to chinese??

[jam]

now the link to the new 1.15e firmware version works and its installer is in English so... no more problems!!!

[Jim Hogan]

Following is copied from Cowon's dowload page and describes FW 1.15e fixes. Can anyone explain if these fixes are worth the effort to replace FW version 1.10a????? It means some effort since I'll have to re-load files to player ....

What's New in Firmware 1.15 (for iAUDIO 5)

# Improved Features & Fixed Bugs
- Improvement on stability of OGG playback
(Fixed problems which becomes mal-function by tag problem, from part OGG files that didn’t plays last 2~3 seconds.)
- Fixed problem, which start section repeat from wrong position if high bit rate MP3 file played.
- Fixed problem, which name of the last broadcasting station has broken when the broradio.ini file has downloaded.
- Fixed problem, which resume and bookmark do not work properly on files that located out field of 1GB from 2GB player.
- Other bugs has been fixed.

[foreigngadgetlove]

how come the 1.15e firmware doesnt work on www.iaudio.com? it's only a 12kb file

If i download the chinese firmware, will I be able to change the menu to chinese??

No, it's a 4.5MB file. Are you absolutely sure you didn't just save the actual hyperlink?

Think twice before ordering the I5 2GB model. Cowon has acknowledged a design defect (which limits actual capacity to 450 files/folders or essentially about the same capacity as the 1GB model.) See other forum posts about this defect for details. You'd be better off buying two 1GB players .....

I have thought twice about it, actually, and I don't care. I'm not going to be using anywhere near 450 files. If I can use 200 files and take advantage of at least 1700MB, that's fine with me.