- Status Closed
- Percent Complete
- Task Type Patches
- Category Bootloader
- Assigned To No-one
- Operating System iPod 5G
- Severity Low
- Priority Very Low
- Reported Version Daily build (which?)
- Due in Version Undecided
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Due Date
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FS#11199 - iPod bootloader: reboot to disk mode from the fatal error screen on cable insert
Currently when the iPod bootloader experiences a fatal error (such as inability to mount the disk or find rockbox.ipod) it just prints a message telling you how to reset the ipod into disk mode manually. Some users appear to have difficulty with this, either because they are not doing it quick enough or perhaps their hardware is not behaving as we expect…
This patch makes the bootloader's fatal error handler poll for USB insertion and, on cable detection, reboot to the disk mode automatically. This should also work for firewire on 1G-3G, I hope.
The actual message printed to the screen needs to be updated, but I'm not sure how much space we have on the various screen sizes.. any suggestions what to say?
I've tested this on a 80GB ipod video 5.5G - can anyone test on other models, especially 1G-3G?
ipod-bootloader-diskmode.diff
(1.4 KiB)
2010-04-13 22:18
Reason for closing: Fixed
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Submitted (with proper messages) in
r25643
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Ah, if you want to test: build and install a new bootloader with this patch, and then rename rockbox.ipod to something else (or anything else which would cause the bootloader to fail). When the bootloader dies with the fatal error you should be able to plug in your cable and it will reboot (after a moment) to the apple disk mode for you to fix the problem, without having to reset manually.