IPOD CLASSIC 160 GB

[katarasg]

Hi to all of you...sorry for my english!My problem is that i had i  my ipod installed the version r31516-120101......i see that new stable vesion was updated....then i went to my windows 10 pc to return to original ipod firmware ant then go again to new rockbox .....my problem is that i tunes cant remove older rockbox and replace it with the original......i download then the new installer from rockbox and runned it .......how i will go back.....im desperate ....windows says that i have a 64 mb external drive....please help me!!

[Frankenpod]

So what goes wrong, exactly?

Just connect ipod, wait for PC to see it, unzip new rockbox version over the old one, then reboot iPod.

OR...

Connect...put ipod in DFU mode...start iTunes...wait...tell iTunes to restore.  Then go through the usual Rockbox install procedure from the beginning.

At what point does it go awry?

Also - how was Rockbox installed in the first place?  Dual boot or Emcore method?  And what method are you using now?

[verdomde]

This post is a little old, hijacking it.

Basically similar to above, I had Rockbox about 8 years ago, didn't like it, somehow got rid.

Want to install again (on iflash), and the rockbox utility says 'Do not need to install bootloader'.

A tentative look show suggestions of using emcore at boot up, but no such option is available. Am a bit stuck... how do i fully remove the old bootloader?


Thanks Much.

[saratoga]

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodClassicPort

There is a good chance your iflash adapter won't work reliably with rockbox though.

[verdomde]

Hey, thanks for a quick response, I was skeptical, but tried the installer, and, it worked!
Thanks very much. Still waiting for completion, but am past the previous problem.

[verdomde]

Hello again, so that didn't work.

The bootloader was the issue, I installed emcore (almost super easy). In windows I couldn't get udf mode recognised, but the umsboot installed anyway. It then wouldn't appear as a disk, so I un-plugged without ejecting or rebooting, and stuck it into my linux box, I was then able to copy the .ubi and boot to the fallback rockbox, Ubuntu now wouldnt recognise it, so I ejected and stuck it back into windows to use the aforementiod beta utility. This installed rockbox. Finally...

But now, I cannot get it to mount on Linux to try to copy music to it. usb keypad mode comes up, and it shows in disk manager, but I dont know how to mount it......

Any ideas?

Ta...

[saratoga]

USB is massively more stable in the current build, so if you installed an old one with emcore, then that might explain  why you can't use USB.

However, I think it is pretty common for those iflash adapters to not mount, or to mount and then just corrupt the storage in rockbox.  If you install the bootloader I linked above instead of emcore, you could use the Apple firmware to copy files over and see if that works any better.  Some people report that if they copy files over in the Apple firmware, they can at least play them in rockbox with those adapters.