Hi,
My Brother's IPod 4G greyscale has given him nothing but grief. It keeps freezing and stuff like that, so much that it's hardly usable. We've tried upgrading the FW, but that didn't help (I also used the restore option, so now the IPod is quite empty).
So I thought installing RockBox on the IPod might do it some good.
I used ipodpatcher and found the right number (2), so I executed the command:
ipodpatcher -r 2 bootpartition.bin
but then i got this result:
ipodpatcher v0.3 - (C) Dave Chapman 2006 ...
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive2
Part Start Sector End Sector Size (MB) Type
0 63 80324 39.2 Empty (0x00)
1 80325 39054014 19030.1 W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Seeking to sector 63
[INFO] Writing 80262 sectors to output file
[ERR] read in disk_readData error (cyclic redundancy check).
A 28MB bootpartition.bin file was created.
When I executed this command:
ipod_fw -o apple_os.bin -e 0 bootpartition.bin
I got a 3.5MB apple_os.bin file (with no warnings).
and when i executed this command:
ipod_fw -g 4g -o rockboot.bin -i apple_os.bin bootloader-4g.bin
i got a 3.57MB rockboot.bin file (no warnings or nothing).
Now i fear writing this file to the IPod, since it might have come from a broken bootpartition.bin file.
I tried Formatting the IPod (which took several hours) and tried again. I got the same results.
Any Suggestions?
(I'm using WinXP SP2, administrator login, antivirus disabled).