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Title: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: dst on July 10, 2007, 01:01:31 PM
Ipod 5.5 gen, new install of rockbox.  The screen freezes, the control freeze but the music continues to play.  Only does this when listening to album for awhile.
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: GodEater on July 10, 2007, 01:13:18 PM
It does this with default settings ?
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: rovert on July 10, 2007, 03:05:00 PM
This also happens to me and Ive the same model but I always put it down to having it on hold but either way ive left it play alone for a while.
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: LambdaCalculus on July 10, 2007, 03:10:32 PM
I have similar behavior with my iPod as well. It only happens occasionally, but nonetheless, it happens, usually requiring me to reset the system with MENU+SELECT. It seems to happen often when listening to LAME-encoded MP3s at high-quality VBR settings.

It may or may not be a bug, but I'm not filing any bug report unless a lot of users report this same problem.
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: tdtooke on July 10, 2007, 07:12:26 PM
I've had this happen twice, both times I do believe I was playing a v0 mp3.
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: dst on July 13, 2007, 11:43:47 PM
Default, yes. Except for a theme I installed to help with the way-too-small text.

This happens everytime I play music, at different times though and I never catch it.  I can't reset it or anything the pad is frozed.
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: rovert on July 14, 2007, 09:06:33 AM
I have similar behavior with my iPod as well. It only happens occasionally, but nonetheless, it happens, usually requiring me to reset the system with MENU+SELECT. It seems to happen often when listening to LAME-encoded MP3s at high-quality VBR settings.

It may or may not be a bug, but I'm not filing any bug report unless a lot of users report this same problem.

Has this been reported yet becuase its a chronic problem and really spoiling my enjoyment of this software.
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: LambdaCalculus on July 14, 2007, 07:34:12 PM
I did say only occasionally, meaning it's a rare occurance. My iPod has been rock solid and stable otherwise.
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: wesderby on July 15, 2007, 10:56:25 PM
As I've reported in other threads, I have this problem on occasion with Rockbox on a 30Gb (5th Gen) iPod Video.  I'm currently running a build of Rockbox which I downloaded around 8:00 PM Pacific time on Thursday night.  Thursday, I played music fine without any freezing...Friday started out good, but then I had it freeze twice and require the menu+select reboot.  I was blaying MP3's ripped at 128KBPS, with VBR disabled.  Who knows, maybe my iPod just didn't like the Dokken record I was playing. :)
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: sadffffff on July 16, 2007, 01:33:34 AM
have never had this problem in my 4gb nano. my build is a few months old. i'll update and see if i have any issues
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: sadffffff on July 17, 2007, 04:45:21 PM
still no issues with the new build.
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: LambdaCalculus on July 18, 2007, 03:20:28 PM
Try this out: Go to Settings -> General Settings -> System -> Idle Poweroff, then set idle poweroff completely off.

I did this earlier, and the lockups have stopped entirely.
Title: Re: Freezing screen/controls, continues playing
Post by: tdtooke on July 19, 2007, 02:58:47 PM
Based on what LambdaCalculus said I was thinking this might be in powermgmt.c.  @any developer/coder reading this I don't know what I'm talking about at all on power managementb (can't stress that enough), but I was thinking just looking at it that taking out (audio_stat == (AUDIO_STATUS_PLAY | AUDIO_STATUS_PAUSE)) in that if statement that makes sure it's not turning off a playing player and of course cleaning up the parentheses afterwards  at around line 647 in handle_auto_poweroff might do the trick.  There is a 90% chance that I'm completely wrong in every way here, but just on that 10% chance..