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iPod 5,5 (80Gb) doesn´t switch on anymore
daniel54:
--- Quote from: DefineByte on July 16, 2007, 09:22:40 AM ---Did you charge from within Rockbox? How long between when you charged the iPod and when you next tried to use it?
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Charged it for about 10-15 mins and booted it into the emergency disk mode and reset the ipod in itunes to the factory setting and then booted to the apple firmware and then charged the rest of the way.
ps, its a shame its an apple boot loader error, rockbox it really good, would be a shame to have to wave bye to it.
DefineByte:
Just to be clear, when you last shut it down (before the problem) were you in Rockbox or the Apple firmware?
daniel54:
--- Quote from: DefineByte on July 17, 2007, 06:01:23 AM ---Just ti be clear, when you last shut it down (before the problem) were you in Rockbox or the Apple firmware?
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I was in RockBox. ;)
Edit: Is a RockBox boot loader too far in the distance?
GodEater:
I assume by Rockbox bootloader, you mean one which resides in the iPod's flash.
To be honest, I can't think of a good reason to do this - the Apple one is usually so reliable, and contains all the emergency routines for things like disk mode and self diagnostics.
linuxstb:
--- Quote from: GodEater on July 18, 2007, 02:47:01 AM ---I assume by Rockbox bootloader, you mean one which resides in the iPod's flash.
To be honest, I can't think of a good reason to do this - the Apple one is usually so reliable, and contains all the emergency routines for things like disk mode and self diagnostics.
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We would need a fuller understanding of the ipod hardware (to perform all the initialisations we currently rely on the Apple bootloader to do), plus a working USB disk mode, but running Rockbox from flash (we wouldn't just limit it to a bootloader) would give very fast boot-up times, and also allow features such as hibernation of dircache (as implemented on the iriver H100 series when running from flash).
Our own code in flash would also hopefully not share the same extremely slow emergency disk mode that Apple's firmware has on some models, although that wouldn't be needed as often as Rockbox would by that time have its own disk mode.
Another advantage that some people seem to care about is that the ipod would then be running 100% free software - no Apple code left.
I'm sure there are other advantages, but I think we're getting off-topic.
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