Rockbox

is this still an issue?

No, there is a problem with charging. I have a ac charger and last night rockbox said I had about 39 minutes left on it, and I drained it down to about 24. I plugged in the charger and went to sleep, about a half hour later (I'm guessing 24 minutes) I hear a beep and its my IPL starting and loading rockbox. I figured out that while rockbox was running, it was not allowing the battery to charge so it would die, but since the charger was attached it would start up and load rockbox the die and repeat. So I loaded apple firmware and it charged completely overnight without problem. Now it's plugged into the charger and the battery is draining.

I am using build 17488.

This bug still occurs for svn 17611.

For firmware/powermgmt.c (In the function power_thread_sleep()),
when the battery was larger than 8% and does not charging,
the voltage of the battery and the remainder capacity of battery.

I send this bug's patch.
For iPod Color/Video, it was confirmed that this problem had solved.

I send the above patch(fs8319.patch) applied the Rockbox firmware (for iPod color/photo).

After original Rockbox binary (r17611) install in your iPod color/photo,
replace new firmware.

Alright. I am downloading 17611 right now. I will copy over the rockbox.ipod and report back how the battery and charging works. Thanks for your work.

Everything looks ok so far, except when I plug the ipod into the wall charger, the hard drive spins up. Weird, and kinda funny at the same time. Hope this helps.

Check the new firmware, thank you.

The above problem is different from the original problem.
In the item of the debug menu, there was something without the processing
when connecting it with the charger.

I send new patches.

1.fs8319_2.patch
For fs8319.patch, a little corrected.
- fimware/powermgmt.c
It was corrected that the capacity of the battery was correctly calculated
　　　 　　when Rockbox connected it with the USB cable (not charger).

2.fs8319_3.patch
The above problem's patch.
- apps/debug_menu.c
When Rockbox connects USB or a charger,
it was corrected that this machine was charged.


And I send the Rockbox firmware which apply 2 patchs.(for iPod color/photo).

After original Rockbox binary (r17622) install in your iPod color/photo,
replace new firmware.

I do intend to reply to this, I installed the patches on my ipod, I just need to get some time to report back on how they work. Thanks for your work Uchida.

Again, running 17622 with your patch and it appears to work great but the hard drive still turns on when I plug it in.

It also seems to be charging slow, it's been plugged in for about 4 hours now and it's only charged to 20%. I plugged it in when it had 3% left.

Another weird thing that I meant to mention earlier is the % and estimated time. When the charger is unplugged, it will read "2h 58m (36%)" and then I will plug the charger in and it will change to "5h 26m (7%)". What does the info mean when the charger is plugged in? Thanks.

I'm sorry that the answer is late.

Thank you for confirming the operation of the Rockbox that I corrected.

The problem that changed into the value that the percent of the battery is small was
corrected in the much more if charging the iPod.

I send the new firmware (base on svn 17703).
(The patch file see http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/9072.)

Please, could you advise to be happened when what operation is done though the hard disk still turned while charging it?

Hey there, sorry for the waaayyyy late response. Things have gotten real busy. I tried the 17703 and it doesn't appear to be charging at all now, it MIGHT have charged 1% or so in the last hour and a half but it's certainly a lot slower than disk mode. Also the hard drive spins up when I plug it in to the AC. The percents and time left looks all accurate. Thanks for your work.

Thank you for having it checked that the percent of a battery will seemingly be right also during charge.

While Rockbox moving, when it charges, because electric power consumption is many, it is almost not charged.
It is very difficult to gather charge speed.

So everything's good? I don't see how Rockbox could be using all the power that the AC adapter provides but at least it doesn't lose power and it's easily charged while in disk mode. Thanks for all your help Uchida.