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wintermute23:
Actually, I suspect there's a bug in the charging routines.
The standard bootloader powers into the OF to charge if you plug it in when it's turned off, but as that won't work from a CF card, I assume the bootloader charging routines are new. But once it's fully charged, it seems to start to run down slowly.
It's easy enough to work around; I just boot into RockBox and then plug it in to charge. But if there was a bootloader update that fixed this, it would be well worth the effort of re-flashing.
Anyway, in reference to my original query, it sounds like I'll get the RiDATA 233x card.
petur:
Bootloader charging is indeed something new, and because my CF compatible bootloader was based on current SVN, it contains that feature too. Interesting to hear it has a bug.
And yes, all cards should work, and the reason I said to go for at least x133 is that it otherwise takes ages to copy to/from your player. Those 'speedy' cards are anything but... ;)
I also have a spare HDD around if I ever need to load another bootloader, or we have to get flashing working stable on h300 :)
wintermute23:
Yeah, I've got ~17GB of music to copy over, and even on a fast card, I'm not looking forward to waiting for that to happen. But that's a one-time event, and I'd be more interested to know what speeds the H3x0 can handle in daily use. This is really of purely academic interest as all the cards I'm looking at are pretty much identical in price, but it would be good to know. Not that I have the faintest idea how you'd go about establishing that, and I wouldn't be surprised if no-one's figured it out.
As for the charging bug, all I really know is that the first time I charged it up overnight, it said "complete", but the voltage readout was slowly dropping, and when I booted it up, it said it was 90% full. I assume that once the battery was fully charged, it stopped drawing power from the charger, but kept powering the LCD from the battery.
petur:
--- Quote from: wintermute23 on May 06, 2008, 08:06:29 AM ---Yeah, I've got ~17GB of music to copy over, and even on a fast card, I'm not looking forward to waiting for that to happen. But that's a one-time event, and I'd be more interested to know what speeds the H3x0 can handle in daily use. This is really of purely academic interest as all the cards I'm looking at are pretty much identical in price, but it would be good to know. Not that I have the faintest idea how you'd go about establishing that, and I wouldn't be surprised if no-one's figured it out.
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TIP: copy the initial music over by putting the card in a cardreader ;)
--- Quote from: wintermute23 on May 06, 2008, 08:06:29 AM ---As for the charging bug, all I really know is that the first time I charged it up overnight, it said "complete", but the voltage readout was slowly dropping, and when I booted it up, it said it was 90% full. I assume that once the battery was fully charged, it stopped drawing power from the charger, but kept powering the LCD from the battery.
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I'll have a look if I can reproduce. In any case the charging is handled in hardware so it is a bit surprising...
wintermute23:
--- Quote from: petur on May 06, 2008, 10:04:09 AM ---TIP: copy the initial music over by putting the card in a cardreader ;)
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Well, yes. It looks like, in ideal circumstances, it ought to take a bit more than an hour to copy everything over. But I somehow suspect that it'll take longer than that to pull it off the existing hard drive. Anyway, worst case scenario is that I run the copy overnight, so how long that takes really doesn't matter.
--- Quote from: petur on May 06, 2008, 10:04:09 AM ---
--- Quote from: wintermute23 on May 06, 2008, 08:06:29 AM ---As for the charging bug, all I really know is that the first time I charged it up overnight, it said "complete", but the voltage readout was slowly dropping, and when I booted it up, it said it was 90% full. I assume that once the battery was fully charged, it stopped drawing power from the charger, but kept powering the LCD from the battery.
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I'll have a look if I can reproduce. In any case the charging is handled in hardware so it is a bit surprising...
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Hrm. As I say, I only used the bootloader charger the once. It's not impossible that I misinterpreted what I saw. If other people are using this bootloader and aren't aware of this issue, it makes me suspect that I got something wrong. Maybe we can solve this with science?
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