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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: [Fwd: Re: 5.5G iPod shutdown confusing the boot code?][Fwd: Re: 5.5G iPod shutdown confusing the boot code?]
From: Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:45:04 -0500 Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Does anyone know if there is a forum topic about this? I'll keep looking... Dave Woyciesjes wrote: > Dave Woyciesjes wrote: >> David Hall wrote: >>> Dave Woyciesjes wrote: >>>> Alex wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I've noticed that sometimes when Rockbox shuts down it leave the >>>>> boot code confused as to the charge state of the battery. The >>>>> iPod will refuse to boot with the usual Menu key and when plugged >>>>> in to the USB reports very low battery. Once I give it the two >>>>> finger salute and reboot into Rockbox everything is fine. >>>>> >>>>> Has anyone else seen this behaviour before? >>>>> >>>> I'm also wondering if this is related to the iPod being >>>> formatted >>>> FAT32. My iPod never gave me this kind of trouble until I had >>>> reformatted on Windows iTunes to load Rockbox... >>>> >>> Two things pop to mind: >>> 1 - The low battery symbol pops up w/o a disk spinup. >> >> When it happened to me, I didn't catch any low battery symbol. >> I'm >> not saying it didn't happen, I just didn't see it on my screen when >> it >> finally did power up. Of course, I did have it plugged in to a >> charger >> at those times. Next time I won't have it on a charger, to see... >> >>> 2 - This happened to me when using the original firmware. >> >> The only times I remember it happening is when I had Rockbox on >> the iPod, in addition to the Apple firmware that gets loaded when I >> did the Restore in iTunes v8 on Windows Vista Enterprise. >> Rockbox was then dropped on using a Windows XP Pro Sp2 machine. >> Rockbox Stable v3.1 & current r20102-090225. >> >>> I think the assumption that this is not uncommon behavior even >>> with the >>> original firmware is well founded, as there: >>> A - are reports of this happening to people who have never used >>> Rockbox. >>> B - is sound logic to the statement "bootloader problems are more >>> likely >>> to be seen the more often you use the bootloader" Active Rockbox >>> users >>> engage the bootloader possibly multiple times per day. Active Apple >>> OS >>> users rarely _if ever_ engage the bootloader. >> >> Agreed. >> >>> The only question, in my mind, is "does Rockbox increase the >>> likelihood >>> this bug is triggered?" >>> This would be a time-consuming question to answer. >> >> In my case, I would say yes, because of point B above. Before >> Rockbox, I rarely kicked it over. >> >> But another possibility, (I'm not a programmer but...) I presume >> the firmware files are different for FAT32 and HFS, so I'm curious >> which way the iPods are formatted when users experience this issue... >> Again, time consuming question... >> > Well, my iPod wouldn't start up this morning. I've been using it > in > iPod/iTunes mode for the past week+, without issue. This morning, had > to > give it the 2finger to get it going. When it finally started up, there > was a quick flash before the Apple logo, but I couldn't catch of it > was > a low battery symbol. When it came all the way up, I did notice the > battery was only at 50% charge. Which is very odd, since I didn't use > it > off charger for any length of time yesterday. It should've been at > least > 90%. > Looking at the Last Played timestamp in iTunes shows what I > expected. Nothing was played between 5:38 pm yesterday & 8:04 am > today... > Seems like it didn't properly go to sleep last night. > -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- AIM - woyciesjes --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ "From there to here, From here to there, Funny things are everywhere." --- Dr. Seuss ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.htmlReceived on 2009-03-04 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |