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Elias_Maluco:
I have rockbox installed on my iPod Video 30gb 5.5G for a few days, and I noticed that sometimes (several times, actually), it will just not turn on. It is turned off, I press a button, it should turn on, but it just doenst (nothing appears on the screen, no error, no apple, no sound).. Then I have to try the reset procedure a few times until it actually works, and then it turns on and boots into rockbox as normal.

Any clue on what can be going on here? Is a new iPod, by the way.

Chronon:
I believe that is a bug in Apple's bootloader code.  The player appears to hang at startup before any Rockbox code gets executed and seems to just be off and unresponsive to key presses.  A hard reset usually allows it to boot normally.  I don't know why it only hangs like this sometimes.  It would be nice if we could get to the point of understanding the hardware enough to replace Apple's bootloader with our own.  Presumably, that would prevent this sort of behavior.

Elias_Maluco:
I see. Do you think that using IPL instead of the official rockbox loader would change anything?

Chronon:
If it's what I suggested in the previous post then it doesn't seem that that would make a difference.  I have seen some claims that it happens less in iPL, but I don't tend to place much trust in such claims without some statistics to back it up.  I just don't see how code that runs after Apple's code would affect the functioning of their bootloader.

Another alternative is that it might be hanging at shutdown.  I recall this happening on my Gigabeat about a year ago, though I don't remember the circumstances that caused it to happen.  This also required a hard reset (for the Gigabeat this means disconnecting then reconnecting the battery via the switch at the bottom of the player).

However, the existence of this behavior on even unmodified iPods makes me doubt that this would be the sole reason.  Of course anything you can do to track down what affects this behavior would be helpful.  Unfortunately I don't have any quick fixes for this.  This problem is endemic to the iPods.

Elias_Maluco:
Good to know Im not the only one with this problem. At the other hand, that also means that there is no solution for this, which suks. I will try the IPL anyway. I actually had installed it right after I installed rockbox, but I dint get it to show rockbox on the list, so I uninstalled. Now Ive read some tips here and I will try again. Thanks for your awnsers anyway.

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