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Question about using rockbox for audio and original firmware for video- ipod 5g
mrufino1:
Hi, My first post here, and apologies for it being LONG. I purchased a used 80gb ipod video last week to install rockbox. I love it, much better than using itunes! However, for video, I have read that using the ipod firmware is better, and I have found that to be true. Anyway, I use ubuntu, so I want to play ogg and flac files, etc.
So here is my question- since I began using the ipod firmware, I have "crashed" rockbox twice, where it won't load up- the bootloader gets stuck. It happened the first time because something on my computer froze and I disconnected the ipod (at least, I am thinking maybe that's why it crashed). I restored the ipod and reloaded rockbox and all of my music.
Now, tonight, I was using the player in the car, worked great. I went into an appointment, came back out, started up the ipod, and the bootloader was stuck again! So, here is my question- first of all, I was eventually able to delete the rockbox folder after unzipping a new rockbox folder onto the ipod, and all is functional again. On my previous installs, I unzipped the rockbox folder to my computer first, then copied that, rather than unzipping directly to the ipod as suggested. Now that I followed those directions all is well.
In the future, if I am loading video via itunes (that is the only way to load to use the ipod firmware, right?), should I have the ipod in disk mode or ipod firmware? I have been leaving it in rockbox and using itunes, would that corrupt something? It loaded the video with no problem and has worked for the past few days, but as I said it suddenly wouldn't load rockbox. Is it okay to switch between the original firmware and rockbox like this? I thought that I read that it was.
Thanks again, sorry for the long post but I want this to work!
AlexP:
It would be much more useful if you supplied some details. When the bootloader gets stuck, what does this actually mean? What can you see on screen? What version bootloader and build do you have?
If you want to transfer films for the OF to use, you must do it via itunes. Rockbox doesn't have a USB mode on portalplayer targets, both the OF and diskmode are Apple software.
mrufino1:
The bootloader getting stuck wasn't my question really, but it says this:
Rockbox Boot Loader
Version: 2.0
IPOD Version :0xFFFFFFFF
TOSHIBA MK8010GAH
Partition 1: 0x0B 76183 MB
Loading Rockbox...
Error!
Can't load rockbox.ipod:
File not found
Hold MENU+SELECT to reboot
then SELECT+PLAY for disk mode
I found the answer on some other posts- I copied a folder to the ipod, rather than unzipping it.
Sorry if I wasn't more clear- my question is, if I am on my windows machine and connected via itunes, is it better for me to have the ipod booted in the original firmware rather than rockbox or does it make a difference? I am trying to figure out why my rockbox would have worked and then suddenly not be found, but it wasn't as a result of being connected to the computer- I was listening in my car, went into an appointment, came back out, turned on the ipod and that error message came up. Anyway, it is working now after unzipping the rockbox folder on there- I had to rename the rockbox folder that was already on there in order to delete it. There were all sorts of files in there that were named using characters I've never seen (certainly not the English alphabet!). I was wondering if being booted in rockbox then connecting to itunes maybe put those files in there, and somehow eliminating the rockbox.ipod file. But then it shouldn't have worked after being connected to the computer.
AlexP:
--- Quote from: BigBambi on November 18, 2007, 06:17:37 AM ---If you want to transfer films for the OF to use, you must do it via itunes. Rockbox doesn't have a USB mode on portalplayer targets, both the OF and diskmode are Apple software.
--- End quote ---
In addition, if you have garbled filenames try running chkdsk on the ipod when in disk mode. It sounds like some part of the filesystem got corrupted. Perhaps you unplugged it from USB without ejecting first?
mrufino1:
Yes, I unplugged without ejecting the first time this happened, but not the second time. How do I run chkdsk? Is that on the ipod itself or am I doing that in my OS (ubuntu)?
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