Risks relating to iPod charging from wall socket.

[Llorean]

Actually, it's just the default way Rockbox works because many of the older devices didn't charge over USB at all, so there was only one action for plug in: Connect.

[Yotto]

Attached is a patch that will always charge when usb is inserted and never reboot. Bit usless/trivial to add to the patch tracker I think.

First, nice.  Does it have a menu setting?  If you can toggle the way it works (and it passes bug testing of course) I see no reason that they would not want it in the base build.

Second...

I occasionally charge using a bicycle hub dynamo

Where'd you get one of those? I /love/ that idea.

[Drkepilogue]

For the people that charge using wall adapter, does it even charge at all?  Last night, i plug in my ipod to charge(did the hold menu thing) and when i woke up in the middle of the night, it was at 40.  So i was like ok... sure.  But when i woke up for school, it was at 37...  Does this happen to anyone else?

[travishayes89]

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

2.philips PCF50605HN (PMU) power management unit ( http://www.chipworks.com/WebReports/ShowOverview.asp?ReportID=2368 )

you know what the thing he did wrong was, making a modification to your actual hardware, leading to problems not covered by apples's warranty

[ryran]

For the people that charge using wall adapter, does it even charge at all?  Last night, i plug in my ipod to charge(did the hold menu thing) and when i woke up in the middle of the night, it was at 40.  So i was like ok... sure.  But when i woke up for school, it was at 37...  Does this happen to anyone else?

Yeah uhmmm.. this has been happening to me lately too. Nice to know I'm not crazy. There's been three or four times now where I plugged it in before I went to bed (almost dead) and when I woke up ~6 hours later, it was only at ~60%. Since that happened I've been so busy (and not wanting to worry about it) that instead of testing more, I just rebooted into Apple's fw before charging...... will have to see what happens tonight.

[DaveS]

For the people that charge using wall adapter, does it even charge at all?  Last night, i plug in my ipod to charge(did the hold menu thing) and when i woke up in the middle of the night, it was at 40.  So i was like ok... sure.  But when i woke up for school, it was at 37...  Does this happen to anyone else?

Believe it or not, I had this exact same issue with my 5G Ipod when I tried using a third party wall charger until I updated to the latest Ipod firmware (1.1.2 I think?).  After that, my Ipod charges just fine from the wall.  I saw a few other people posting at Ilounge with similar results.

Dave

[ryran]

My 5g charges from my Apple-brand wall charger just fine in the Apple fw; notsomuch in Rockbox lately (wasn't an issue a few weeks ago).

[BigMac]

So if i leave my 5g plugged into the computer for 2+ days, my chip will fry?
Silly Rabbit, tricks are for kids!

[Yotto]

This thread is talking about charging from a WALL SOCKET.  No mention is made of having it plugged into a computer.

I don't have a wall socket charger, but I FREQUENTLY (4 days a week for about a month now) have my iPod plugged into my computer for 10 hours straight, booted into rockbox, playing music through my desk speakers.  It's never even warm to the touch.

[brandun_6]

I'm using Julius's build on my 5G 30GB Video and when I plug it in to the wall adapter it only does the Rockbox boot cycle twice then it goes into disk-mode.