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Risks relating to iPod charging from wall socket.

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kamalneet:
sorry fella's for a late reply my mom had a minor cardiac arrest probs , well i was to continue that the dc/dc ate up the entire battery to dead while being in standby on apple firmware all night long ,actually ipod was in so bad shape that i needed to disconect battery from the board after its usage , so now i am using NOKIA  BL - 5C ,battery or even siemens sx1 battery can be used too , only thing is you have to connect red(of ipod battery wire) to positive and black to negative of these batteries ,it also assumably shows approx voltage indication ,my ipod is working fine ,i only face a major problem when i have to use USB data transfer ,during which ipod hangs due to over heating dc/dc chip and i have to reformat it using restore utility from apple to avoid disk corruption , i also take off battery plug from the board after usgae is complete just to avoid full battery draining in off or standby mode

asterix2112:
Lloren, I beg to differ about the iPod with Rockbox not entering the rebooting cycle until after 48 hours.  I just got my external apple usb charger.  Plugged the cable into it and it into the wall.  then I just plugged it into the iPod.  Started the re-boot cycle immediately.  Yes, when I held the menu button down it worked fine, but I just am darn thankful I read all these forums BEFORE I got my wall charger... 

- John

Llorean:
I said it won't enter the Reboot cycle for 48 hours IF you're in the Apple firmware.

Please, read thoroughly what I say.

johnyparko:
so.. how will we know if our ipod has been "bricked" due to irresponsible charging practices???

Will the ipod just be really hot or is there some sign that we should look for?  This stuff is scaring me, maybe I should just wait til Nov. when it comes out :\

Thanks in advance

JP

linuxstb:
The original poster has said in another thread that the damage to his ipod was caused by a faulty charger, not the constant rebooting caused by Rockbox:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=4783.0

However, this constant rebooting is obviously not a good thing, and we'll try to fix it.

It's only a problem when using the USB wall charger (not when using a firewire charger or when connecting via USB to a computer), and is easily avoided by either holding MENU in Rockbox as you insert the USB cable, manually forcing your ipod into disk mode before starting to charge (reboot, then immediately hold SELECT+PLAY), or booting into Apple's firmware.

The original poster's ipod only started to constantly reboot because he had hacked the original firmware to enter deep sleep after 15 minutes - and because the ipod was connected to power at the time, it immediately woke up and booted into Rockbox.  Rockbox (mis)detected a USB connection and then rebooted to disk mode.  But disk mode couldn't find a connected computer so rebooted again and the cycle continued...

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