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IpodStatus page still up-to-date for 5.5Gen iPod?

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saratoga:

--- Quote from: lsiden on July 14, 2007, 08:19:32 PM ---Non-optimal disk-writing code shouldn't effect normal playback operation, since that only occurs when saving a playlist or config file.

What about occasional freezes on the 5/5.5g.  Has anyone encountered these?  This happened all the time on my iPod Photo.

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I think that issue was fixed last week on the photo when frequency scaling was updated.  Unless you were running a no scaling build?

lsiden:
Don't know.  That Photo is bricked b/c something happened to the mainboard.  I probably damaged it from opening it so many times.  (Once to replace battery, again to replace hard drive, and again to reconnect HD.  Big fiasco.  :(

mamboman:
what's wrong with the hdd in the 5.5G 80GB ipods? just concerned as i am thinking of getting another one

GodEater:
There's nothing "wrong" with it per se - it just doesn't work the same as any other hard disk in the DAPS that Rockbox supports.

If you search on the wiki you'll find an absolete page that says why it took so long for Rockbox to support it in a reasonable amount of detail.

The only downside to using the 80GB for Rockbox concerns when Rockbox itself writes to the disk - which as pointed out above, only happens when you save a playlist, or a config file. And even then, the "downside" is that it takes four times as long as it does with any other Hard disk based DAP - and you probably STILL won't notice that, since playlists and config files tend to rather small.

Perhaps if you create a playlist with every song on your DAP in it it'd be noticeable - but even so - it doesn't bother me much. I don't do it enough for the performance hit to matter to me.

wesderby:

--- Quote from: ryran on July 11, 2007, 07:17:50 PM ---I've been using Rockbox on a 60gb 5g for more than a year now with practically no problems. At this point, skipping is never an issue, the way I use it. (Same goes for a 30gb 5.5g I borrowed for a few months.)

Battery life IS kinda a problem for me though; however, if you're cool with ~10hrs then I suppose you'll be fine.

(I also bought it solely because of Rockbox.)

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Wow...You're getting 10 hours or so?  Nice.  I have a 30 GB iPod Video, and I'm lucky if I get four or five hours out of the thing with Rockbox.  I keep most of my MP3's at 128KBPS so I can fit more of them on the unit.  Been meaning to request posting permissions to the wiki so I can include my stats on the battery life form, but haven't had a chance to try the IRC channel to see if it works with a screenreader.  Should I have certain settings enabled, or disabled, for the optimum battery life?

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