Ipod video 64Mb?

[carmenm]

as peteypiefrogworth tried again and it worked. SO awesome

[phunkdust]

Working, with some wobbles. It saw the file structure and played an MP3, still finding my way around the interface (after not having touched Rockbox for a year when I ditched the iPod mini)

It's done a few weird things, crashed once or twice, and had that freeze error that someone else talked about (can browse, UI works, can select files to play, playback doesn't start)

Built the db just now, and working.

Is it just me or is the sound quality of the rockbox decoder far better than the Apple one, or am I just delusional?

Also thankyou to the rockbox crew for such an awesome bit of software, and amiconn for getting the 5.5G working! Going to paypal some more bux your way soon.

[bluebrother]

It's done a few weird things, crashed once or twice, and had that freeze error that someone else talked about (can browse, UI works, can select files to play, playback doesn't start)

Then you need to update your bootloader (in case you haven't found this out already

[HtS]

I had some problems too, but now, it works.
When I started my iPod, it said me "No partition found, press menu + enter to reset, etc...". I restored it with itunes, and then, after installation, it worked ...
I don't know if it's normal ...
I must also said I had ipodlinux installed, and tried many test last months, to help rockbox developers when they asked... think it must be because of that

As the others, a huge thank to everyone who tried to make the 5.5g working (regardless of the time we had to wait   )

[phunkdust]

It's done a few weird things, crashed once or twice, and had that freeze error that someone else talked about (can browse, UI works, can select files to play, playback doesn't start)

Then you need to update your bootloader (in case you haven't found this out already

No idea how to do that, but it seems to be stable now. I think it just wigged out, and me accidentally clicking on "Record" crashed it once... well Recording initialises, but if I exit out of it and try to do something else I get the gui work, hdd read, but no playback freeze.

Oh well, I'm happy with it, time to play around with it!

[y2kcpi1]

Hi There Ya' All,
 my ipod says can't find rockbox.ipod anywhere i installed this bootloader and the video 64mb.zip
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ipod/ipodpatcher/win32/ipodpatcher.exe

is this the right one

Cheers,
Ben.

[GodEater]

Hi There Ya' All,
 my ipod says can't find rockbox.ipod anywhere i installed this bootloader and the video 64mb.zip
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ipod/ipodpatcher/win32/ipodpatcher.exe

It's impossible to say if it's "the right one" since you don't say which iPod you have.

Where did you unzip it to anyway ?

[y2kcpi1]

Hi There Ya' All,
 my ipod says can't find rockbox.ipod anywhere i installed this bootloader and the video 64mb.zip
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ipod/ipodpatcher/win32/ipodpatcher.exe

It's impossible to say if it's "the right one" since you don't say which iPod you have.

Where did you unzip it to anyway ?

i have a 80gb 5.5g isn't this the thread for it?

Cheers,
Ben.

[GodEater]

the iPod 5G 60GB also sports 64MB of memory (although that's the same firmware too). I just dislike assuming that what's you've got - which is why I asked.

You didn't answer my other question.

[knight4led]

I was having the same trouble with the rockbox.ipod file on my 80gb. I tried first with the bootloader supplied in the 1.0 with 1.1 bootloaders of ipodpatcher and a build I compiled from SVN from the 23rd. When that didn't work I tried with a custom bootloader built from the same source, but got the same problem.

I am downloading a daily from the 24th to try and todays SVN. Hopefully I can get this to work.

I have a sneaking suspicion it is because I am converting from HFS+ to FAT32 using the MBR method, but if that is the problem would the bootloader even run?

EDIT: By the same problem I mean that my bootloader screen reports that it can't find rockbox.ipod. I tried with it in the .rockbox folder and in the root of the iPod. Both times the same error.

[y2kcpi1]

Hi There Ya' All,
 my ipod says can't find rockbox.ipod anywhere i installed this bootloader and the video 64mb.zip
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ipod/ipodpatcher/win32/ipodpatcher.exe

It's impossible to say if it's "the right one" since you don't say which iPod you have.

Where did you unzip it to anyway ?

sorry man, i unzipped it to the root of the ipod

Cheers,
Ben.

[GodEater]

So what folder structure do you have there now then ?

[y2kcpi1]

everything in the .rockbox folder

[knight4led]

Have you had any luck y2kcpi1?

I am still getting the cannot find rockbox.ipod error no matter what build I use whether rockbox.ipod is in the root or the .rockbox folder.

I have checked and double checked my bootloader as version 1.1 both with the ipodpatcher program and one I built from source.

I did format my iPod using the mbr files from the IpodFat32 wiki, but I am relatively sure that is correct since ipodpatcher and iTunes both report it as a winpod with 2048mb sectors.

(I think my next step may be to try to install windows on my mac and go from there. That is the EXTREMELY long method)

[blueworm]

I get the *No partition found* error

I have a 80Gb.
I have re-installed my ipod from backup.

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dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc count=1

dd if=bootpartition.bin of=/dev/sdc1

mkdosfs -F 32 -S 2048 /dev/sdc2All is good apple OS boots fine. I then install rockbox.

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unzip -d /mnt/ipod rockbox.zip

./ipodpatcher
ipodpatcher v1.0 with v1.1 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Ipod found - Video (aka 5th Generation) ("winpod") - /dev/sdc
[INFO] Reading partition table from /dev/sdc
[INFO] Sector size is 2048 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63         64259       125.4   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1           64260      39070079     76183.2   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Ipod model: Video (aka 5th Generation) ("winpod")
Enter i to install the Rockbox bootloader, u to uninstall
 or c to cancel and do nothing (i/u/c) :i
[INFO] Using internal bootloader - 50520 bytes
[INFO] Reading original firmware...
[INFO]  Wrote 7540736 bytes to firmware partition
[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit ipodpatcher :
I eject and voila *No partition found*

I have tried doing this a million diffrent ways but nothing.

Any Ideas?
 
I cant try to backup from a windows iTunes, like somebody suggested since I don't have windows at home. All I can muster is Linux or OSX.
 
What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE:-

I changed the mbr image to the one in the:- http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodConversionToFAT32

Now I get the same problem as those on OSX *can't find rockbox.ipod*.

Has anybody gotten this to work with Linux or OSX?

UPDATE:-

Rockbox boots with ipodloader but behaves incorrectly!