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Why use hold switch to load original firmware?

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cool_walking_:

--- Quote ---Your haven't addressed that at all with your edit.
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I was asking.  I appended "or something" to try to get across that it wasn't a sarcastic question.

It was actually never "half a second", because I always forgot, so it'd start booting the OF and I'd have to do the 6-second MENU+SELECT.


--- Quote ---If you really, desperately feel you must avoid the OF, simply install Rockbox without the OF present instead.
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Maybe I did it wrong, but I think I did this when I installed the 3.2 bootloader (used -wfb rather than -ab with ipodpatcher), and it just gave me a white-on-black bootloader message complaining that the OF wasn't there when I left HOLD on, which is just as bad.

By the way, I'm talking in past tense because I killed my iPod.

Llorean:
So, you're requesting we solve your inability to remember to turn Hold off by making rebooting into the OF impossible for some of our users?

cool_walking_:
I've never actually used the "hold MENU" method to boot the OF.  I asked if you have to do it at a certain time in the boot process (as opposed to just rebooting and straight away holding MENU).  If you can just hold MENU the whole time, you can hold MENU while inserting the USB plug from an OFF state.

If it doesn't hurt other people too much, yeah, I wouldn't mind features that mitigate the effects of my ineptitude.

Llorean:
Should I just refer you back to the IRC quote you mentioned in your first post in this thread, or what? It was even you in IRC who was being told that...

cool_walking_:
I thought maybe it was not true anymore, because of saratoga's reply.

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