POWEROFF WHILE CHARGING

[bmm4360]

I am using rockbox in my car with an adapter.  The idle poweroff mechanism does not work when i have the adapter plugged in.  I went into the ipodvideo config file and uncommented HAVE_POWEROFF_WHILE_CHARGING and it still won't poweroff when charging.  I thought that was the point of that option.  Is the fact that I have something plugged into the dock connector different from charging?

[Llorean]

1) This wasn't an install question. Please read POSTING IN THIS FORUM in a section before posting.

2) The hardware itself can't be powered off while charging, so trying to tell Rockbox it can when compiling a custom build won't work how you want it to anyway.

[bmm4360]

that makes me wonder why there's an option in all of the config header files for "HAVE_POWEROFF_WHILE_CHARGING".  I guess that's just a leftover thing that someone was tryin that didn't work.

[Llorean]

You may infer by the various comments such as "define this if the hardware can be powered off while charging" that it's a standard header that is then copied into a customized copy for each hardware. In fact, note it says "if the hardware can be" rather than "if you want to enable the feature."

Rockbox does run on a lot of other hardware, and the iPod certainly was far from the first.