Ipod video 64Mb?

[Deth20]

Im curious whats the difference between the regular and the 64Mb version?

[DefineByte]

iPod 5/5.5G 30GB has 32MB of RAM, while the 60/80GB versions have 64MB. You should use whichever version corresponds to your iPod.

The greater RAM allows for a larger playback buffer, increasing battery life.

[GodEater]

Technically the current "64MB iPod Video" build should only be used on 5G 60GB models - since the patches allowing the 80GB to run Rockbox have not been committed to svn yet.

[sharky_k]

hey GodEater, do you think you could upload an ipod video 64mb rockbox build with the 80gb patch in the unsupported bulds section?

I'd love to try it on my 80gb, but I don't have the expertise to apply patch and compile myself

[GodEater]

Sorry but no I won't.

a) I'm not about to start supporting an unofficial build.
b) You need a special bootloader too which isn't in the standard ipodpatcher.

but most importantly

c) amiconn looks like he's going to commit the new change sometime in the next few hours anyway.

Patience people

[sharky_k]

oh well, i guess i'll wait

thanks GodEater

[carmenm]

Ok so now it s official it is supported, Thanks GodEater and all the others
Yet i have a problem with my 80go, i have downloaded the last bootloader, last rockbox for 64mb, restored my ipod under windows. Launched the bootloader, installed all the file(no problem here i know it by heart with my h340). Yet when i start my ipod i have this message

No partition found
please insert an usb cable and fix it

I verified my partition seems correct(fat32)

Is there anything special that we have to do for it to work?

[peteypiefrogworth]

Confirmed. I get the same problem as carmenm with my 80GB iPod using the new 64MB build. However, when I use the build that I made myself the day before yesterday (which incidentally I erroneously built for 32MB RAM), it works fine.

In other words, the new bootloader works fine - I loaded the new firmware using that without any flags, replacing the one I built myself.
However, the latest Rockbox build itself isn't finding the partition. Do we need a special 80GB build, or is there just a problem with the current "64MB" one?

Would love to be using the official build, as creating my own means uploading and downloading stuff from my web server *hehe*
[Mind you, I'd LOVE some special builds that run nice WPSes, and I'd particularly love one with a scroll-wheel accelerator patch, which isn't up-to-date for latest SVN...]

Can I just say here (hijacking this thread) HUGE THANKS to the developers who made Rockbox work on the 80GB iPod in the last week! I'm sure I'm not the only person who's tremendously thankful and has said goodbye to iTunes in a trice.

[daniel54]

I'm using the 2007-05-23 20:52 build, and I have no problems here.

[GodEater]

Yet i have a problem with my 80go, i have downloaded the last bootloader, last rockbox for 64mb, restored my ipod under windows. Launched the bootloader, installed all the file(no problem here i know it by heart with my h340). Yet when i start my ipod i have this message

Could you tell me which version of ipodpatcher you've used ?

[peteypiefrogworth]

I used the latest ipodpatcher, but I don't believe it's the bootloader. I left that as is and copied over rockbox.ipod and the .rockbox folder with my own build from the day before and it worked fine.
So I think it's the Daily Build that's the culprit. That's my non-technical guess anyway.

I'm not sure how to download the 2007-05-23 20:52 build? I feel like a dummy - I can see the info about the builds on the current build page, but how do I download an earlier one? To clarify: I know I could download the previous daily build, but what about one from a specific time like this?

[GodEater]

Again, what *version* does ipodpatcher report? Saying "the latest" tells me nothing.

And the message you describe of "no partitions found" sounds exactly like it might be a bootloader error.

You can't download previous versions of "the current build" because then they wouldn't be current. It's either the current build, or one of the archived dailies.

[peteypiefrogworth]

OK:
ipodpatcher v1.0 with v1.1 bootloaders
is what it says.

Again, it could be the bootloader for the other person, but I'm still using the bootloader that was put on there by this ipodpatcher. All I changed was the contents of the firmware zip, which is why I thought it could be the Daily Build.

a1titude said they used the 2007-05-23 20:52 build with success, so I thought I could try that one, that was all. I don't mind.

[GodEater]

Well,

I used ipodpatcher 1.0 with 1.1 bootloaders this morning - installing over the custom bootloader that I'd put onto my iPod on Monday - with this morning's build of RockBox - and it went on without a hitch.

So I suggest you try using ipodpatcher to uninstall the bootloader there currently - then run it again to write a fresh one - and then use the current build of Rockbox as of right now.

[peteypiefrogworth]

OK, current build works, yup! Thanks GodEater, that's great. Dunno what happened before, because I did exactly the same process - uninstall bootloader, install new one using the same ipodpatcher, then copy over .rockbox folder. Maybe there was a glitch but the current build is AOK.

Now I await the special iPod builds to catch up, but in the meantime, ROCK.