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Bear with me - mini 2g problem

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Vair:
I followed the instructions here http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodConversionToFAT32

Though it took a number of goes to get it to take.

Chronon:
I guess that RButil properly recognizing it as an iPod and proceeding with installation should have told me that the formatting was okay.  I just wanted to double check.

It sounds like RButil installed the bootloader and then something went wrong during the firmware installation.  You could give RButil another shot, or you can try extracting the rockbox.zip (available from the "current build" page) to the root of your player.  I know some mac users have issues getting it to extract properly as a directory named ".rockbox" so make sure that it does this properly.  You might have to rename via the terminal to get the right name.

Oh, by the way, please use the modify feature if no one else has posted since your last post.    :)

Vair:
Assuming that the bootloader is installed OK, I copied the rockbox.zip folder onto the ipod and extracted it in place. I've got the .rockbox folder, looks fine. I used rbutil to add the english.voice file, and that shows up fine too. Ejected, reset (light came on, I think that means the reset worked from the apple side) but didn't hear anything. Quite probably though, it's because the battery was still very low after decharging it overnight. I've got it plugged into the wall charger now and I'm going to give it a couple of hours before checking it out.

Having said this, I can't remember if I left it in the apple firmware or rockbox - it will charge in rockbox mode, right? That's taken care of in hardware, isn't it?


Edit (advice noted!): Curiosity got the better of me, and I'm glad it did. It was in apple mode (I put a song on it in itunes and some other songs directly onto the disk so I would be able to tell by listening). When I tried to reset it, I realised that it was not resetting into rockbox mode, it was just turning on the backlight which is the default behaviour when you hold down the menu button for two seconds. Pressing play confirmed that I was still listening to the song on the iTunes side. This confirms that it's the device that has a problem with resetting - nothing to do with rockbox. Perhaps the select button is faulty, since I haven't been able to test that properly.

So... I guess I'm stuck waiting for it to discharge again and reboot itself into rockbox, then charge it up again for a couple of hours.

It does charge in rockbox mode, right?

Chronon:
That all sounds promising so far.

Yes, charging is handled in hardware.  I recall at one time that the presence of a wall charger would cause the iPod to reboot into Disk Mode unless "Menu" was held during insertion of the cable.  Disk Mode would then reset the player after failing to find a USB host.  Rockbox would boot, detect the USB charger and reboot into Disk Mode, etc.  However, there's a new USB stack for the PortalPlayer targets that requests the full current from the host so I'm not sure what the current behavior is regarding wall chargers.  It may be safer to leave the Hold switch on while charging so that if it does reboot it goes into the Apple firmware, thereby negating the possibility of any loops.  Good luck!  (Going to lunch now. . .)

Vair:
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I edited my last post to reflect my new discoveries which, having read your post, may have some significance.

Have a nice lunch!

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