Ipod patcher error on Ipod 5th gen

[serial8]

Yeah - new cable is the order of the day here. Shame you're not local - I think I have about four  Undecided

I in Quebec, Canada so...

For the cables, does a quick ebay bargain can do the job?

[LambdaCalculus]

Of course it can! You can get one for dirt cheap that way!

Actually, be safer and buy at least two. GodEater's got a very good point: Always have a spare.

[GodEater]

I regularly curse Mr. Jobs and his non-standard cables. Why couldn't they just use USB at both ends like everyone else?!?!

[serial8]

Ok that's what I will do.

Does those issues come often around here with 5th gen ipods?

[GodEater]

Not very often no.

But also - we don't get many posts from all the hundreds of users that never get any problems at all.

[serial8]

I regularly curse Mr. Jobs and his non-standard cables. Why couldn't they just use USB at both ends like everyone else?!?!

Because Mr. Jobs likes to get you sick with is fancy stuff. Macs do it different. But those cables are quite a mess.

The thing is that I never had a problem like this with iTunes, so why does it happen now? I really think my ipod is possessed!

[bascule]

I regularly curse Mr. Jobs and his non-standard cables. Why couldn't they just use USB at both ends like everyone else?!?!

Because Apple (perhaps even more than Microsoft) like proprietary lock-ins on both hardware and software, thus denying people the ability to anything bar the prescribed operations.  

[LambdaCalculus]

I swear, I'm beginning to think that Steve Jobs may be the reincarnation of Nicollò Machiavelli or something...

[serial8]

I swear, I'm beginning to think that Steve Jobs may be the reincarnation of Nicollò Machiavelli or something...

To tell the truth, Steve Jobs is quite a genius and did great things like co-writing the very first lines of codes that would become soon after what we currently call Unix.

But yeah, he's kind of weird and he after all just likes cash!

[serial8]

Hi everybody,

I found while in backup of my Ipod that some files on the filesystem were corrupted! So I copied all I can and restored in iTunes my Ipod.

And Then everything worked out!

Thanks for all that fast support!

Happy Rockboxing!!! You guys rock!

[GodEater]

Thanks for letting us know you fixed it.

[LambdaCalculus]

Enjoy Rockbox!  

[za9finm]

I had similar problem with 5th gen ipod:

[INFO] Moving images to create room for new firmware...
[ERR]  Short read - requested 8388608 bytes, received 5243904
[ERR]  Image movement failed.
[ERR]  --install failed.

Initially found it hard to believe it could be the cable, as I had successfully used the same one to install rockbox on a 2nd gen mini. But then I remembered I had been using the back usb port on my pc for that install. Switched the cable from the front port to the back. No Problems. Great product.

[dreamlayers]

Yes, there are signal quality issues with front USB ports on some computers.  In particular they may not allow reliable USB 2 high speed operation.  Whenever you have some kind of USB problem with a front port it's worth to try a rear port.  The front ports generally come with the case and they may not be up to spec, of good quality or designed for USB 2 high speed.  The ones on the back are on the motherboard.