Possible to disable Gigabeat remote?

[Whelkman]

One of the Gigabeat F40 units I support has a flaky headphone jack. When jostled, all sorts of things can happen, from volume changes to the loading of playlists. Amusing as the "haunted Gigabeat" is, it'd be awesome if I could stop this. I searched through the documentation, forums, and mailing lists (via Google) and found nothing pertinent.

[Llorean]

You'd have to disable it in code and compile a custom build with it disabled. There generally aren't features "just in case the hardware malfunctions" since malfunctioning hardware can't really predicted, and coding for all possible permutations would be unreasonable.

[Whelkman]

You'd have to disable it in code and compile a custom build with it disabled.

I checked out revision 15988 and am scanning the .h files; button-target.h seems like the place to be. I'm no coder so any hints would be appreciated.

There generally aren't features "just in case the hardware malfunctions" since malfunctioning hardware can't really predicted, and coding for all possible permutations would be unreasonable.

You're right, of course, though what led me to my diagnosis was the observance of the same behavior to a lesser extent when plugging or unplugging headphones on my personal unit, which appears otherwise to be 100% functional. Therefore I'd consider this a manifestation of a design flaw unless the engineers never considered a scenario where a listener would insert or remove headphones while the unit was powered, which seems a little silly to me.

[soap]

Dr. Soap thinks a long life of popping pills (patches) is no way to live and perhaps the patient should consider surgery to either correct or remove the malfunctioning organ.

Dr. Soap's sister is a radiologist resident - perhaps send him the CAT scan films and we'll get a second opinion on an effective course of action.






Seriously, though - the Gigabeat is easy to open (don't break the plastic tabs on the top and bottom panels!) and the headphone jack sounds like it is either broken internally, or at its mounting points to the PCB.  If broken internally you have to replace it or cut the remote connection.  If broken externally, AND if you have led a good clean life, perhaps a cold solder needs fixed, perhaps a sliver of metal is intermittently shorting out...