ipod 30GB 5G screen gets distorted everytime i boot!

[killer]

after using rockbox for a few days, it was amazing..  though i usually switch from rockbox to apple OS most of the time, because i use the apple os to watch video and rockbox to listen on my music files.. besides the fact that rockbox features are really cool!.. but after i watched an hour of video when i tried to boot back to rockbox.. the screen got totally distorted!.. but it was able to play music  , i tried to shut it down and let it sit for a few minutes and tried to boot it back, an apple icon appears on the screen and showed a normal screen again.., when i connected it on the usb port the screed got distorted again, but my ipod appears as my F: removable drive on my windows explorer!, but i can't see any icon appearing on my ipod screen!, why is this so?.. i need help here guys!.. thanks in advance!

[killer]

am i the only one experiencing this?  

[Yotto]

A picture would really help here.  Saying your screen is "Distorted" doesn't tell us much.

To me, "distorted" means the screen is flawed.

[killer]

the whole screen gets all white.. or grey sometimes!.. it happens everytime i plug it on the usb, charger and booting from rockbox to original apple OS.. i'll try to take a picture it.

[soap]

the whole screen gets all white.. or grey sometimes!.. it happens everytime i plug it on the usb, charger and booting from rockbox to original apple OS.. i'll try to take a picture it.

Ever since USB detection was added to the iPods people have been having problems exactly as you now explain.  Rockbox detects there is a USB data (as opposed to charger only) connection, attempts to reboot, but fails to do so, leaving the screen a faded and distorted mess.
My iPod video does this nine time out of ten if I don't reboot into Apple firmware before attaching a USB data cable.

If I am misreading your description, and this happens when you plug in a power-only USB connection, I don't know how to explain it.

But to clarify - unlike what you originally said in this topic's subject line - this does not happen every time you boot your iPod, it only happens when you plug in a USB cable?

[killer]

yes, before it seldom occur, but it happens everytime now!.. when i plugged and unplugged it on the usb port on my computer to download or make a few changes on my files on my ipod (on rockbox) but it didn't happen if it is on original firmware.. it happens everytime after my daughter watched her 2hours long favorite cartoons and rebooting back to rockbox, the screen gets distorted or faded even before it shows the apple icon, sometimes it happen even when its on its original apple firmware (which i use to charge the player) right after i plugged the connector of an AC charger and seldom it happens after i unplugged it after being fully-charged from an AC charger, say the screen was okey when i plugged the charger.. perhaps un-installing and re-installing rockbox will cure this  , because this only happened two(?) days after i run the rockbox on my ipod!.

[killer]

i tried to restoring my ipod using itunes, hoping that something reconfigured by rockbox would return to normal after restoring it, i was trying to uninstall rockbox using the uninstall icon inside the RBuninstall folder, but it prompted on the computer screen that i have to use itunes updater.. so i did, then i hit restore button to erase everything on my ipod's harddrive, first itunes informed me that all my files will be lost, okey, i hit restore button.. after a few minutes when itune restored my ipod and start synching.. the screen on my ipod is unfortunately still a distorted/faded mess!.. is it possible that rockbox could have messed up my ipod's screen or something?.

[Llorean]

There is no "RBuninstall" folder in the official install instructions. What exactly did you do to your iPod? It sounds very much like you installed using someone else's tools, which means we don't even know what was on your iPod.

The official version of Rockbox should not be able to cause any problem like that, as once it's removed properly, it's gone entirely.