iPod 4G behavior when plugged in

[Strahan]

It appears to me that the system goes back to "Apple mode" when I plug it in to charge or copy files to it.  Not that I care really, I don't care what it does to make it work.  However today I noticed an oddity..  I unplugged the iPod after copying files and it dropped me into the Apple regular UI.  Perplexed, I held menu-center button and after a reboot it went back to Rockbox. 

Is that normal behavior, or did I screw something up when I installed Rockbox?

I had noticed when I went to Files from the main menu it displayed the iPod default folders; Notes, Calendar, and Contacts.  I backed them up to my C: then deleted them from the iPod.  I assume this has no relevance, but figured I'd mention just in case.

[saratoga]

If you're running a build without USB support for the ipod, then yes, its normal to have to reboot into the Apple firmware to use USB.

[Strahan]

Well..  I don't have to reboot to use the USB.  I plug it in and see a nifty picture of a USB plug from Rockbox, then after a second it goes to the default Apple "Do not disconnect" flashing circle-crossed-out thing.  Usually I unplug and it goes back to RB but this one time I just stayed in their UI.

Since I assume my RB build has USB support since it understood I plugged it in, I must have broke it when I installed heh.  To do my initial install I downloaded the Rockbox Util and ran the main install-all option.  When it got to the fonts part it 404'd and failed.  I then tried the minimal install and it went all the way through and that's what I'm using now.

Hardly an issue worth complaining about, it doesn't really bother me.  Just wondered if it was normal.

[torne]

There's a difference between it having the USB stack enabled (which release builds, 3.x, do not) and it understanding that you've plugged in the USB cable.

Release builds detect that you have connected USB, then reboot to Apple's emergency disk mode, the screen you mention. Builds with our USB stack enabled just stay with the Rockbox USB plug picture, and USB file transfer is handled by our code, not Apple's.

Did you have the hold switch turned on when you were doing this? When you unplug from Apple's disk mode, it will reboot the ipod: so if the hold switch is turned on the bootloader will boot Apple's firmware, just as if you had the hold switch turned on at poweron normally. If the hold switch was off then it should've booted back to Rockbox; not doing so would be a bug.

[Strahan]

Ahh, that's what it was.  Yea, it was probably locked.  Thanks!