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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: 5.5G iPod shutdown confusing the boot code?Re: 5.5G iPod shutdown confusing the boot code?
From: Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:02:27 -0500 David Hall wrote: > Dave Woyciesjes wrote: >> 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... -- --- 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. SeussReceived on 2009-03-02 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |