Iriver H100 series

The iriver H100 series (originally iHP-100 series) is a series of discontinued portable digital audio players (DAP) made by iriver company and originally released in October 2003. The H100 players differ only in hard drive storage capacity, RAM size, color, and thickness. It was succeeded by the iriver H300 series.

Features

• Plays MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and WMA (non-DRM) format files
• Analog and digital optical line in and out
• Records from line in (analogue or optical), built-in or external microphone to WAV or MP3 format (supports powered or unpowered external microphones)
• Built-in FM radio tuner
• 160×128 pixel greyscale LCD (4 shades of grey)
• Wired remote with 128×64 pixel black and white LCD, which can control any function of the DAP (same as iMP-550)
• Built-in 1300 mA·h Li-polymer battery, advertised 16 hours playback time
• USB 2.0, supports USB Mass Storage (drag and drop music transfers)
• Upgradeable firmware
• Motorola Coldfire CPU at 120 MHz [1]
• 16 MB RAM (H110, H115) or 32 MB RAM (H120, H140)

Upgrades

Firmware

It is possible to upgrade the firmware on H100 series players. These upgrades generally contain bug fixes and new features. The latest official version of the H100 series firmware is V1.66.

Hard drive

The H100 series is equipped with a 1.8 inch (45 mm) form factor hard drive manufactured by Toshiba. Storage density has increased since their introduction, making it possible for users to replace the factory drives with higher capacity aftermarket models. Opening the case of the player voids the warranty. However, after the case has been opened the upgrade consists of simply unplugging the old drive and inserting the new one.

As of December 2005, the H120 can be upgraded with a 30GB single-platter drive (giving a 50% storage increase) and the H140 can be upgraded with an 60GB double-platter drive (giving a 50% storage increase). Due to differing physical sizes, the two drive types cannot be used interchangeably (ie, a double-platter drive will not fit in an H120 casing).

As of 2008 The H140 can be upgraded using a ZIF to ATA conversion cable to take a larger capacity 1.8 inch non ata hard disk drive. The 120GB MK1214GAH ZIF drive has been used in the H140 and the 80GB MK8025GAL ZIF drive has been used in the H120.

Battery

The battery used in the H100 series is physically similar to the battery used in iPods and other DAPs. It is possible to replace the factory battery with a higher capacity one (up to 2200 mA·h has been reported) for greatly increased playback time. In some instances the polarity of the battery leads must be reversed, and the installation process will void your warranty.

RTC (Real-time clock)

Users have succeeded in adding an RTC chip to the player's main circuit board, allowing the device to display the current date and time as well as adding alarm clock functionality, accurate filesystem timestamping and last.fm logging. Note that Rockbox is the only firmware known to be able to utilize an RTC-modified H1xx.[2]

Models

• H110 (originally iHP-100, later iHP-110): 10 GB hard drive
• H115 (originally iHP-115): 15 GB hard drive
• H120 (originally iHP-120): 20 GB hard drive
• H140 (originally iHP-140): 40 GB hard drive

Dimensions and weight

• H110, H115, H120: 105×60×19 mm, 160 g (including battery)
• H140: 105×60×22 mm, 172 g (including battery)

Alternative firmware

The Rockbox logo

Rockbox is a free and open source firmware, released under the GPL license. Among others, it supports iriver H10, H100 and H300 series. Features included are:

• Support of over 15 audio codecs, including Ogg and FLAC
• Support of Replay Gain (volume normalization), gapless playback and Last.fm
• MPEG video playback support
• Many games, including Sudoku, Solitaire, Pac-Man and Doom
• Customizable graphical interface through themes
• Installable plugins: clock, calendar, dictionary, text and image viewer, and screensavers
• Multilingual (more than 30 languages supported)
• Narration of interface, useful for the visually impaired

The above features are subject to the platform limitations. Rockbox may lack some features of the official firmware (for example support for DRM-covered music) and may considerably change the player interface. Depending on the manufacturer and reseller, usage of Rockbox may actually void player warranty.

External links

• www.iriver.com — the manufacturer's web
  • New Product 10G HDD based MP3 player, iHP-100 — the product announcement from the manufacturer's web
  • iRiver iHP-100 Series — the first version of the product page from the manufacturer's web
  • Classic style jukebox H100 series — product information on the manufacturer's web
• Index page for the iriver Rockbox porting effort — wiki page describing the status of Rockbox port to iriver H100 series and links to the hardware information including PCB scans, schematics and component datasheets
• www.misticriver.net — MisticRiver, unofficial site for iriver users
  • H100 series on iriver Wiki
  • iRiver H120 with 80GB HDD guide - instructions for using an 80gb ZIF drive in the iHP-120 with an IDE to ZIF adapter
• iriver Taper's FAQ, 2007 June 9