Ipod Video 80Gb

[nicks23]

Hi all
I wanna know few opinions from people who work on a rockboxed ipod about some problems i notice on it. First i notice when im running the rockbox firmware the ipod's harddrive makes more noice than the original apple's firmware. Secondly often when i try to open my ipod i get battery signs and i have to restart it so as to enter the rockbox firmware, but i never notice those problems with the original apple's firmware. Do u think there is something wrong with my ipod or is it normal to get this sometimes with rockbox and if it is so is it dangerous at all?

Please reply because i really want few opinions about this.
Thanks

[GodEater]

My iPod makes no more noise running Rockbox than in the OF.

I don't make a habit of opening it though, and can't imagine why you'd want to.

[Llorean]

I think by "open" he means "turn on."

[MU4L]

Hi all
I wanna know few opinions from people who work on a rockboxed ipod about some problems i notice on it. First i notice when im running the rockbox firmware the ipod's harddrive makes more noice than the original apple's firmware.

Depends on what you mean by 'more noise'. I have not experienced any more noice with Rockbox than with Apple's firmware.

Secondly often when i try to open my ipod i get battery signs and i have to restart it so as to enter the rockbox firmware, but i never notice those problems with the original apple's firmware.

Yes, I do experience these sometimes, but because it is so simple to reset, I've never considered it a problem.

 

Do u think there is something wrong with my ipod or is it normal to get this sometimes with rockbox and if it is so is it dangerous at all?

It really depends on what you mean by 'more noise'.

[soap]

Secondly often when i try to open my ipod i get battery signs and i have to restart it so as to enter the rockbox firmware, but i never notice those problems with the original apple's firmware.

When you try to start your iPod and you see the low battery symbol - Rockbox is not yet running.  This is apparently a bug in the Apple firmware.
The reason you haven't seen this error before installing Rockbox is a little complicated:
  The black-and-white low battery symbol only comes up in error when booting an iPod from a fully powered off state.
  The Apple firmware rarely does a full power-off, it is most often in a deep sleep mode.
  Rockbox does not know how to sleep your iPod, so it always does a full power-off.
  Therefore you have probably booted your iPod many more times since installing Rockbox than you ever did before installing Rockbox, thus your odds of seeing this bug of Apple's is greatly increased.

[nicks23]

Sorry by open i mean turn on. My english are not so good.

Thank u guys for your opinions.
Thanks "Soap" your informations. They helped me a lot. Im in a company which sells and repairs ipods (Only if is a firmware problem) and i do repair ipods myself sometimes, so i suppose that the baterry signs i get are more likely to be a hardware issue (the battey) rather than a firmware problem. Anyway i sent my ipod for repair to see what it will happen.

Thanks all for your replies.

[countach]

In my 80Gb 5.5 a lot of weird things happen, including yours. But a hard reset and often visit to the OF will normalize everything.

About the noises, I haven't ever played music using the OF, only a couple of videos, so I can't compare.


A quick list of weird things I note. Some of them have been discussed here.


> The battery expiring icon when turn on.
Fix: Hard Reset, going to the OF with the hold on switch, and then reset again. Seems to do something that fix whatever.


> Having a Theme, a font, a splash, etc. Sometimes will bot with the original layout, the tiny font and the plain black background.
Fix: Hard Reset


> Harsh and terrific noises when changing manually a song, having the crossfader enabled. Wont play more after that.
Fix: Stop and play again


> Total hang of everything but the music. No key operation, no screen update.
Fix: Hard Reset


> Auto turn-on silently in the nigh, starting to play, draining the battery. (Even if you set the initial screen to menu, and wake up alarm off)
Fix:Let it rest with the hold on switch enabled. When it decides to startup,  will do in OF, so in a couple of minutes will turn off again, saving the batteries.


> Slow USB transfer
Fix: Always do the USB in Apple mode.


> Error message about the file access: Sometimes, when browsing the files while playing and the song ends to play another, you will get some system error.
Fix: Nothing more happens. The play will continue, and you can continue browsing.