Archos Jukebox Recorder: USB-powered / Always in USB-mode

[rabanito]

Because i often use my Archos as a external harddrive, i wanted to make it USB-powered for not having to bring along the power-supply all the time. So what i did is i wired the battery-poles to the respective USB-power-poles inside the device. This works very well for connecting it to a computer without seperate power-supply, but when i use it with batteries just to listen to music, it always powers up in the USB-Mode!
Is there a way of differently soldering the poles or maybe a software-patch to avoid this problem?

Or is it just not possible to make the device USB-powered AND listen to music?
Very nice would also be to power it via USB and connect it to a stereo for listening to music without even having to use the batteries...

Many thanks!

[mgerald21]

AFAIK rockbox just checks if there is +5V on the USB port, in order to switch to USB-mode. You can patch the code to your need; i.e. button (a) for USB-mode and button (b) for music-mode.

But you are risking a serious defect of your archos by this hw-hack 

[rabanito]

Thank you very much for your reply!
Sorry for the long delay, i'f been on a holiday...

Your solution sounds just like exactly what i was looking for!!!
My Archos Jukebox Recorder works fine until now with this hw-hack and i used it a lot...

Unfortunately i'm not very keen on compiling patches or modifying any code
Could you explain (if it's not too difficult) how to patch the code myself or maybe (i know that's asking a lot) attach a patch i can simply execute for it to work?

Thank you very much!