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80GB Ipod Video won't shut down.

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yapper:
For a second generation iPods (ones with a firewire connector) the only way to shutdown from Rockbox is to press play/pause until "Shutting down" appears on the display, then flip the hold switch on. The unit will then boot into the Apple firmware, and then it can be shutdown.

Mikgerdan1991:
Thanks for the quick response.  :)

Oh, really? That's the shortest way of shutting it down? That's what I have been doing, I just can't see waiting for it to shut down and boot into the Apple firmware to make it sleep every time I want to turn off my iPod. Then after doing that, rebooting it again so that it goes back into Rockbox. Is there no shortcut? If not, that'd be alright. Rockbox is worth it. (Great stuff by the way.  ;)) But, is there something I can edit in the firmware that will stop it from starting up again, like the guy with the 80GB iPod?

yapper:
The older iPods don't actually shutdown even under the Apple OF, they just go into a very lower power state ("sleeping"). Rockbox doesn't know how to set the hardware into this state, so the only way is to use the Apple firmware.

The newer iPods can be shutdown by Rockbox, unless the iPod is connected to a charger or has a hardware fault (as described earlier in this thread)

Mikgerdan1991:
Oh, I see, good point. Is there any chance that Rockbox, um, people, will come back to trying to figure that out, or am I going to have to do what you said before to turn it off?

If so, I have a separate, but related question; I'm converting all my music to WMA. (It just seems, at least to me, the best sounding at 64kbps, which is what I need the bit rate at to have all my music on the iPod.) Would the WMA's play in the original Apple firmware, or would I have to be in Rockbox? I would assume not, but I just wanted to make sure.

Chronon:
No.  Apple's firmware does not play WMA.

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