Alarm does not start playing on iPod video 5.5g

[E-mol]

Hey.

I have been playing around with the alarm-function in rb for some time. But every time it starts up, it just show the start menu. I have set it to continue playing in the alarm-setup, but nothing happens.
Am i missing something important - or am i just heavily unlucky?

E-mol

[Zardoz]

maybe set the start screen to 'resume playback' in the system menu.

[E-mol]

I have tried that.
But still it just doesn't start playing.

[Zardoz]

are you using the most recent build?
if you set it to 'resume playback' on start, does it do that as expected?

[E-mol]

As far as i know i have the newest. Just installed it from rockbox-utility. i have version 3.0, i think.
and i have sat the pod to resume playback, but it just opens up.

[Llorean]

Is there a playlist to resume? If you simply press the Play/Pause button from in the menus, does it start playing something?

[E-mol]

I found the problem
Every time i have tried it have been without the jack set in stick. It only works when it is connected.

Thansk for your help

[Zardoz]

It only works when connected to a main?

[E-mol]

When connected to headphones etc.

[bascule]

When connected to headphones etc.

Ah, so you have 'Pause on headphone unplugged' set to 'Yes', then?

Try setting it to 'No' if you are listening through a docking station.

[JdGordon]

also want to clear up some dis-information.... you don't need to set the start screen to resume playback (you can if you want to do that always...). Next to the alarm time setting there should be a "alarm wakeup screen" option, set that to resume playback and you should be all good

[Zardoz]

(I knew that as did the original poster but suggested it might have some bearing if the correct setting did not appear to work)

[soap]

When connected to headphones etc.

Ah, so you have 'Pause on headphone unplugged' set to 'Yes', then?

Try setting it to 'No' if you are listening through a docking station.

If that is the cause of his problem - should that not count as a bug?
The setting is "Pause on headphone unplug" implying the act of unplugging is the cause.

More likely - what was the original questioner's setting for "Disable resume on startup if phones unplugged"?
The default is "No" - and I would think he would have remembered setting it as it seems obviously linked to the problem he was experiencing.

Or - perhaps he just got overwhelmed by the wealth of options and forgot he had toggled that one?