Latest Rockbox not working on Nano

[neoliv]

The thing is... what could I do to help?
I answered all questions asked here. I guess this is not good enough but lacking any reply, well I'm not psychic either
Loaning my ipod is OK... but I'm in europe and using it about 3h a day.
I may be able to help debug though (able to patch/compile a rockbox to check it and report any debug information you want)
I'll try to get to you on IRC but this is not that easy either. In the meanwhile if you have anything I can do to help. Let me know.

    Olivier

[AlexP]

Being in Europe is good, most of the core devs are so loaning it will be easier

Could you pop onto IRC and if willing make the offer to loan the Nano?  Hopefully a dev will have the time to take you up on it!

[sersoft]

LOL so many people are having problems with nano rockbox, I'm glad I just sold mine.  

[scorche]

LOL so many people are having problems with nano rockbox, I'm glad I just sold mine.  

Keep in mind you are only seeing the people who are having issues and not the people for whom Rockbox works fine...

[neoliv]

Hi there.
I was having something which looked very much like this problem.
Went to the IRC chan to see how I could help fixing it.

Whith zagor we did some preliminary tests to assert the bug:

- clean format (zagor didn't ask for it... but I guessed it couldn't hurt)
  : same problem

- check 14003/14004
  : none of them worked

- updated the ipod bootloader to the latest one using ipodpatcher. (was using an old but not that old firmware... unable to remember the exact version... something late 2006). The process documented here: http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-ipodnano/rockbox-buildch2.html#x4-120002.2.4
  : both worked fine.

- tried the last svn checkout
  : worked too.

So... I guess all you people having this problem should try to update too and see what happens.
If you confirm the "fix" please report to the tracker thread.
CU and thanks again to zagor and all the rockbox coders/documenters/testers/... for this really great work.


 Â   Olivier

[GodEater]

- updated the firmware to the latest one using ipodpatcher. (was using an old but not that old firmware... unable to remember the exact version... something late 2006)

Do you mean Apple Firmware here ?

[pixelma]

I followed the process in IRC a bit and I think he means "Rockbox bootloader".

[neoliv]

yes indeed.
I've updated the rockbox bootloader.
Just download ipodpatcher and run it as documented here:
http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-ipodnano/rockbox-buildch2.html#x4-120002.2.4
let us know.

 Â  Olivier

[GodEater]

yes indeed.
I've updated the rockbox bootloader.

In that case could you modify your original post to indicate this then please, as I had no idea what "firmware" you were talking about.

[neoliv]

Clear enough?
Did you get the same positive result?

[GodEater]

I don't own a Nano, but yes, that's a lot clearer.

[tvg]

I'd like to say, that after 5 minutes in refrigerator my Nano works for 20 minutes on the latest build well.

[embrion]

So it looks like the faulty code part is overclocking the CPU too much:
 - tvg's Nano worked some time until it gained temp
 - some Nanos work and some not  == like PC CPUs (some units of the same CPU model overclocks well, some not too well and some not at all)

[scorche]

The PP chip is not being overclocked  it is speced for 32 KHz - 80 MHz.

As a reminder, as it seems some have forgotten this, but the problem doesn't seem to be solely based on temperature.  A few of us have gotten our nanos hot enough that it is too hot to touch, and they still haven't acted up.

[first500]

It's definitely not an overheating problem with my Nano.

It works fine with the 20070725 release, but crashes with all of the August onward releases.