1.8.2
- Games: in Solitaire, Centre on a pile that can't take the cards you hold now picks that pile up instead. Before, nothing happened and the cards stayed held until you put them back or pressed Return, which looked like the game had stuck.
- Themes: Chinese, Japanese and other text the theme's own face lacks is now drawn bold wherever Classic or Modern draws its text bold: Classic's lists, bar, info rows, Cover Flow, album panel and hold menu; Modern's bar title; and Now Playing's title in both. It used the regular system font.
- Cover Flow: an optional Position Bar follows wheel and touch browsing, then fades after you stop. Turn it on in Display → Cover Flow.
- Status bar: the battery turns green only while it charges. With a cable in and charging held off, by USB mode: Audio and DAC with charging Off or by Charge Limit at 80%, it was green as if charging. It now stays white, or red under 15%.
- USB DAC: System settings → Power → USB DAC Charging sets whether the Q2 charges while USB mode is Audio and DAC, with nothing connected. It's the same switch as the USB DAC screen's, which only showed once a computer or phone had connected, so a Q2 in DAC mode could look as if its battery had died: nothing charged it, a wall adapter included. It's On unless you turn it off, and it's On after this update even if you turned it off before, as the Q2 can't tell that from its factory setting. Turn it Off if your phone rejects the Q2 as a USB DAC; Off also stops a wall adapter charging it in DAC mode.
- Playback: with Headphones Required on, the Q2 restores your queue at start-up again, paused, as Memory Playback has it. Since 1.8.0 nothing was restored with the switch on, even with headphones connected. In-Vehicle Mode still starts playing, or restores the queue paused when nothing is connected.
- Controls: Wheel Sensitivity goes down to 10%, for a slower wheel: 20% takes a third of a turn per step and 10% most of a turn. 50% is still the default and nothing changes unless you lower it.
- Cover Flow: under Theme: Classic, an album's track list runs a long title right up to the song's length, a small gap before it. With Scan Song Durations on, the title was cut off well short of the length, leaving a wide empty gap.
- Cover Flow: it opens on the album of the song that's playing or paused, so that artist's other albums are a turn away (#350). With nothing queued, or a song with no album tag, it opens on the album you last stopped at, as before.
- Playlists: under Theme: Classic, Edit Playlists… is now Select Playlists…, since it marks playlists to import, export or delete. To change a playlist's songs, use its More → Edit Playlist.
- Quick Settings: holding Play/Pause there shows Wheel: Volume or Wheel: Brightness as a pop-up in your theme's style, as other messages are. It was a thin black strip.
- Search: with the keyboard up, one press of Centre turned the screen off, which looked like a freeze. It now takes a double press, as on every other page, and a single press does nothing (#365).
- Settings: the Language row is hidden until the other languages are translated. Q2 Pod's own pages are in English only, so every other language read half-blank.
- Home: Display → Appearance → Shortcut has a new choice, None, which takes the shortcut row off Home's list. The other rows stay as they are. Home: Carousel keeps its shortcut card, which opens Rockbox when it's on the card and Favorites otherwise (#361).
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