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Secondary start screen?

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Llorean:
Maybe a solution would be to note if the key was never release from Playback->Stop->Shutdown and if this is true, treat it as if playback was the last thing happening.

Reintroducing an option that was intentionally removed is going to be difficult unless you have a really, really solid reason why it's needed now but wasn't before.

torne:
Well, it's not quite the same option, if before it was just resume or not. I'm not committed on this or anything, just saw the OP and thought "actually yes i'd probably like that" :)

When my battery bench is done I'll experiment and see what the last screen thing does, and if there's some reasonably sane way to have it work if it doesn't. (battery benching takes ages now! clearly too many of the power usage problems have been fixed ;)

torne:
I've tested it and no, it doesn't work: if you set start screen to return to the last screen, the ipods (and presumably anything else where poweroff is a longer press of the same button as stop) will never start on the WPS. Fixing the last screen tracking to do this differently is probably a lot more work than having a boolean 'resume' setting, and doesn't really provide the same use case anyway (since if you want to always start on the database screen, any time you go to another screen and then power off it will not go back to the database, obviously :)

pondlife:

--- Quote from: torne on June 30, 2009, 10:31:48 AM ---I've tested it and no, it doesn't work: if you set start screen to return to the last screen, the ipods (and presumably anything else where poweroff is a longer press of the same button as stop) will never start on the WPS.
--- End quote ---

This is not true for the H300.  The same button is used for stop (short press) and shut down (long press).  If you do a long press it will shut down directly from the WPS and the Previous Screen option works exactly as you'd want it to.

IIUC, the iPod has 3 actions on the one button - pause (short press), stop (long press) and shut down (very long press).  I'd think that this ought to still be workable in the same manner as the H300, but I've never used one personally.

pondlife

torne:
Hm, interesting that it's different..

I'm wondering if the OP is still around and has tried out the last screen option to see if it does what they want?

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