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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: H320 - How to simply power off of usb, music playing, without disk mode?Re: H320 - How to simply power off of usb, music playing, without disk mode?
From: Mike Hodson <mystica_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:40:09 -0600 On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone_at_rockbox.open.source.it> wrote: > I had exactly the same problem / puzzlement about this a while back: > > On Saturday 24 May 2008 10:24, Antony Stone wrote: >> On Saturday 24 May 2008 10:57, Paul Louden wrote: >> >> > If I press REC and then plug in USB, it starts recording. >> >> This is actually the case where it's working. Your player will be >> charging, and if you do it quickly enough you shouldn't actually start >> recording. There is a plan to choose a button that has less effect, but >> there's some discussion still going on in regard to a standard behaviour >> choice for USB charging. > > From my perspective the REC button is not the ideal way to do this, and I > understand that on other machines the A-B (or equivalent) button is (rather > more helpfully) used. > > Either way, though, it appears to be fundamentally a documentation problem, in > that the currently-working behaviour is not described very well. I would have to agree. And, no matter how fast I connect the usb cable and release the rec button or where I do this combo from, it always goes into record mode. I propose a question popup (if such a UI element is doable in the current firmware) similar to the BlackBerry "Enable Mass Storage Mode? (Yes/No) [ ]Don't ask this again" popup. If you select the Don't ask checkbox, then it will save the choice you make, and assume it as default from that point forward; ofcourse this is settable when you go into the options for the device. I think this would be a rather intuitive, simple, and unintrusive method of choosing whether to use Disk Mode or simply get power. I now have read the manual regarding Car Adaptor mode, and it makes sense; but not quite in the same way I was thinking. If the popup isn't doable, then could it be a simple "USB Mass Storage Mode" option, Enabled/on/yes being the current behavior, and disabled/off/no being the same as hitting rec right before plugging in the cord, ofcourse, without the side effect of starting recording. Finally, in as much as the A-B button suggestion, this sort of a toggle option could also be added as the fourth 'quadrant' of the A-B menu. It could be placed at the top, to compliment Shuffle, Show Files, and Repeat. > Hope this helps, It does! But also creates a whole host of new questions and possibilities :) Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html Received on 2008-07-03 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |