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Ipod 1gen locked up

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proventure:
Was working fine minutes before this happened i did a reboot previous.i own 2 other ipods and have done it lots of times.what i think happened is the firmware was erased on the ipod and when i installed the bootloader it cannot find the ipod and i think the processor/ram do not know what the button functions mean?If i could get the firmware back on but the screen is froze and it is not recognized by computer at all.if i could reformatt somehow or remove bootloader.i tried uninstall of bootloader but does not see the ipod.also do you know what the round spot is on the metal back case?it has 2 contact points for the board?thank you.

torne:
The reset buttons are not handled by software, it's just hardware. Not all iPods reset equally quickly; make sure you are waiting with the buttons held for at least 30 seconds before you give up, and turn the hold switch on and off again first.

The disk mode accessed via select+play is in flash rom, and is not touched in any way by rockbox, so the status of the install is irrelevant.

proventure:
i searched the net and found alot of postings where the screen was froze with the same error message.alot of people have the same prob,the buttons unresponsive.i even unsoldered the batt for along time.as soon as i reconnect it the same thing happens.apple logo for a split second and then bootloadrer utility runs and it freezes.But will try again.getting tired of pushing buttons and not working.

torne:
If you let the battery run down (or disconnect it), and then turn on the hold switch before reconnecting the power, it will boot the original firmware. This is documented in the manual and does not require that the actual Rockbox build is installed; the bootloader handles it.

proventure:
THANK YOU!!I just did this and it worked,perfect.Really appreciate this.I did not see it in the manual though.But none the less we are up and running thanks man!!

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