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Risks relating to iPod charging from wall socket.
kamalneet:
yes with me away from my ipod charging and on rockbox (rebooting again and again) it destroyed two chips by philips
1. philips T1211 DC/DC converter ( http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IaudioX5HardwareComponents#Philips_TEA1211_DC_DC_Converter )
2.philips PCF50605HN (PMU) power management unit ( http://www.chipworks.com/WebReports/ShowOverview.asp?ReportID=2368 )
i had put off charging after 2 hours and now have to open all of my ipod and operate it while opened only due to over heating of these two chips
since these are intergerated on the board and cannot be replaced
i am stuck up
not to mention that i cannot use rockbox any more due to over heating of these chips ,i can use apple firmware but that too does not give me back up any more
now DONT trust rockbox over charging issue till this date
Llorean:
Please change your topic name. You changed your iPod firmware to enter deep sleep early, and this is what caused your problem.
We've also told people that to charge properly in Rockbox using the iPod charger, rather than USB, you hold the Menu button down while plugging it in, in Rockbox. You did not do this.
The problems you encountered were the result of your actions, especially the fact that you modified the settings of your Retail Firmware outside the bounds that are officially changeable.
evilbert222:
woah thats scary!
so if i plug my ipod in without holding down menu i could fry my ipod?
also if i am running the apple OS and i plug my ipod into the wall charger then it reboots into rockbox. can i stop this happening? also if this happens and i leave the ipod to charge overnight (i always did this before i had rockbox) then will this fry my ipod?
Llorean:
The iPod will not reboot into Rockbox until it enters Deep Sleep. I believe this is after 48 hours of Sleeping, though I'm not 100% certain. At that point, it shuts off, then turns back on because the power cable is in.
At this point it goes into an endless reboot loop.
The problem is that the emergency disk mode reboots your iPod if there's no USB connection (which there isn't with the charger) but Rockbox goes into disk mode when it detects a USB cable providing power independent of connection (which the charger does).
You'd have to leave your iPod plugged into the wall for a couple days for this situation to turn up normally. It also can't happen at all if you charge from your computer, or firewire. Only USB charging in Apple's firmware, when Apple's firmware goes into Deep Sleep and then their disk mode continually tries to boot Rockbox.
that_asian_guy:
there should be a warning about that somewhere in the manual
Do not leave your rockboxed ipod charging for more than 48 hours at a time.
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