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Catch the idle shutdown

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Multiplex:
I can't think of a better term but what I'm thinking about is like the Windows XP screen saver option where if you jiggle the mouse withing the first few seconds of the SS kicking in you can abort it without having to enter the password.

For the umpteenth time this week I've been working away with background music provided by Rockbox on my trusty H320, and someone comes to my desk so I pause playback and revmove the headphones. During the discussion I see out of the corner of my eye my iRiver waking up the screen to tell me it is shutting down... if it just gave a count down (from say 15 seconds) and I could press a button to prevent the shutdown (rather then have to restart it) that would be great.

I've made no attempt to look at the code to see if this is practical but thought I'd mention it to see if anyone else feels the same...

bascule:
Why not just increase the idle shutdown setting...?

http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-h300/rockbox-buildch8.html#x11-1360008.5.5

On the hard drive players especially, the battery usage for saving settings and then restarting probably outweighs quite significantly additional drain from leaving the player in a paused state for an extended period.

Llorean:
In fact, being paused for a minute longer probably uses less power than having the backlight on for 15 seconds.

nls:
I like the idea of a general shutdown delay for non user triggered shutdowns. It would address this issue and the issue a user brought up in the mailing list which was basically the same but with the sleep timer.

Simply splashing "Shutting down in x seconds, press any button to cancel" would do it i think with a settable timeout of course.

MajiKool Dragonâ„¢:
could it during the timeout period sleep as much unused hardware as possible in prep for shutdown and then re-awake that hardware if the shutdown is canceled.
  ??? ;D

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