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Subject: Re: Hold switch emulation?

Re: Hold switch emulation?

From: Remo Hofer <remo.nospam_at_gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:10:38 +0200

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:01:50 +0000 (BST) bmidy_at_guddland.lu (Benoit Midy) wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:28:15 +0100, Mat Pritchard wrote:
>
>>On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 07:16:56PM -0700, Psyco Dedman wrote:
>>
>>> Um? do you even own an archos? there's no worry about it accidently
>>> turning on unless you're doing some very strange things with it :p
>>
>>Actually, this happened to me a couple of days ago. Also, because I had
>>resume on, the batteries were flat when I woke up in the morning.
>
>A solution is to put the resume feature on the ASK mode.
>So if you accidently press ON the AJB will power on and after to start the file
>you'll have
>to accidently press excatly the play button which is in the middle on the
>reorder SO it is
>a very particular case (on the player it is more possible)
>
>Or you have to press ON and then another button than PLAY and then PLAY !!
>
>A solution to have more security where to add an "Auto - Off" after a certain
>time
>configurable in the settings menu like the Archos nightmare .. euh Firmware
>sorry !

My preferred solution would be:
There should be a selectable "Repeat" mode, and a "Auto - Off" timer in idle
mode. So, if repeat if off, rockbox would turn off after playing the current
playlist/directory.
-- 
Remo Hofer <remo.nospam_at_gmx.net>
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Received on 2002-08-23

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