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I THINK ROCKBOX KILLED MY IPOD!
Llorean:
"not with any combonation of buttons pushed," does *not* mean you followed any specific instructions. For all I know, you just mashed buttons. What *exactly* did you try to press, in what order, and for how long?
Yes, my statement makes absolute sense. And, out of curiosity, how do you know this problem has never happened with non-Rockbox'ed iPods? Are you calling those people who have reported the same problem on Rockbox-free iPods liars? Or did you mean to say "This has never happened to me before I installed Rockbox" rather than suggesting "This only happens to anyone with Rockbox installed."
Is is somewhat obvious, if you see the low battery warning, you're not in Rockbox. That's an Apple bootloader screen. That being said, none of our code is running at that point. I'm not sure how to explain this to you any more clearly than "our software is not running when you are having these problems, it's just files on the disk that have not yet been loaded."
xwaydoublecode1234.rez:
--- Quote ---"not with any combonation of buttons pushed," does *not* mean you followed any specific instructions. For all I know, you just mashed buttons. What *exactly* did you try to press, in what order, and for how long?
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For example: he is an n00b ipod user... he does not know the reset combination = he does not know that button combinations exist... he knows such words as "brick" "restart"... why he needs to mash the buttons as a paranoiac... ?
--- Quote ---And, out of curiosity, how do you know this problem has never happened with non-Rockbox'ed iPods? Are you calling those people who have reported the same problem on Rockbox-free iPods liars? Or did you mean to say "This has never happened to me before I installed Rockbox" rather than suggesting "This only happens to anyone with Rockbox installed."
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I mean that it happened for *me* only when rockbox was installed... Sorry if i am speaking not clear
If you say that when you are at this level there is no rockbox influence? But how does the rb alarm works? By magic? Can you explain me, just curious
Llorean:
He doesn't need to mash buttons, he needs to follow the procedure for hard-resetting the iPod as stated in Apple's own support documentation. I don't know what you're asking when you say "why he needs to mash the buttons as a paranoiac... ?" These are very specific button combinations that Apple has set as a hard reset.
As for how the alarm works, Rockbox isn't actually running, but some hardware can be left a message that basically tells it "turn on at a later time." Basically, instead of just the power button being able to turn it on, also the clock can turn it on. It may seem logical that "Rockbox must be running still, waiting to turn it back on" but this is not the case.
xxebbandflowxx:
wow... i really didn't mean for this to get all serious... i really appreciate the help, but you guys need to take a chill pill :-\
to answer your questions... i did in fact "mash" buttons at first, i mean c'mon, i thought my ipod bricked... but then i tried the usual ipod command combonations: Hard Reset: select + menu, Diagnostic Mode: select + left click, and Disk Mode: select + play.... so no, i am not "an n00b"...
The Rockbox installation did cause this freeze up... it would be an unbelievable coincidence for it to just randomly do this right after i installed a foreign OS ...but good news, all is well... i decided to try it again last night and plugged it into my car's ipod dock while my car was off (no usb access, just power) and tried the "hard reset" command... it actually took a few tries, but eventually it came back on and has been working well ever since...
so thanks for all the help...
scorche:
--- Quote from: xxebbandflowxx on July 12, 2007, 11:25:08 AM ---wow... i really didn't mean for this to get all serious... i really appreciate the help, but you guys need to take a chill pill :-\
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This is a technical forum. What else would it be besides serious?
--- Quote ---The Rockbox installation did cause this freeze up... it would be an unbelievable coincidence for it to just randomly do this right after i installed a foreign OS
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As we have told you many times, You iPod was in a stage where Rockbox doesn't even touch. It is not that big of a coincidence when you realize that you had to force your device into a full shutdown, when people typically just put the ipod into sleep in the apple firmware, so it doesn't go there much. Do not say that Rockbox is at fault unless you have actual data and can prove it beyond just saying "it couldn't be a coincidence".
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