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iPod Video 5G with iFlash adapter - is RockBox really hopeless in that case?

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RockBoxNewB:
Once again, I'm really happy about the great feedback you three guys provided, which allows me to look at the problem from very different viewpoints. And by the way... you brought back the spirit of experimentation in me :-)

I wasn't able to grab hold of a newer iPod anyway, so I decided to go back to the basics and try to re-build my iPod 5G from the ground up. I started by taking out all 3 microSD cards. In the meantime, I had ordered a 200GB SanDisk Ultra (yes, I know, megalomania calling). I decided to put just this one single card inside the iFlash Quad, leaving the other three slots empty for now. I wanted to cover 2 cases in one, because if this helped, I could limit the reasons to either the iPod being too slow to handle more than one card simultaneously OR it just not liking one (or all) of the cards I used so far.
Since a complete restore was required now anyway (like one of you mentioned), I could also make sure that all files are transferred through Apple's OF.

For now, I only found the time to test it with a sample of 10 files (no lossless ones, though). Even after activating the database, there were no hiccups or skips after about 10 minutes of testing. If my plans work, I will do the real testing tomorrow, once again transferring my entire collection over and also trying to import the database which I built up in recent years. My hopes are back that this might work in the end. 200GB are no 384, but it's still better than nothing and will buy me another couple of months before space runs out!

@[Saint]: By the way, if there's any chance you can provide a build for the 5G which still includes the LOAD-TO-RAM feature (just like you did for my iPod Classic, which was a revelation), that would be very much appreciated! I'd love to test its performance on my particular device.

Best,
RBNB

cereal_killer:

--- Quote from: RockBoxNewB on September 29, 2016, 06:23:54 PM ---I could also make sure that all files are transferred through Apple's OF.
--- End quote ---

Do you mean disk mode (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201544#ipod-click-wheel) or just an USB connection when running the OF?

RockBoxNewB:
What I meant was just a USB connection when running the Apple OF - I haven't tried disk mode to be honest. I actually don't think that this is what causes the problem... the data transfer itself seems to be fine like this. The skips don't seem to occur at specific points but rather randomly.
By the way, in my experiment with the 200GB SanDisk Ultra, I did NOT format the drive prior to inserting it into the iFlash Quad. It was bought new, I took it out of the packaging and inserted right into the adapter. I don't know if this makes ANY difference, but the three 128GB cards were formatted to FAT32 first.
Right now, I am transferring my whole collection over to the iPod. I have made another short test - it still seemed to work, but at some point the iPod would become unresponsive again, right from the System menu where I could not remember having pressed any buttons... it "woke up" again after a couple of minutes, so this should not mean anything for now.
When all music is transferred, my first test will be to play through some tracks, still only using the standard RockBox theme, NO equalizers or any additional options activated, and the database also remaining turned off.
If that should work, I will try to activate additional options one by one and check when the iPod starts to get into trouble again.

As always, if you've got any ideas, just let me know!

RBNB

[Saint]:
As an aside, whether you formatted the micro SD card or not doesn't really matter at all if you then do a complete restore of the original firmware, which itself will setup the storage to its preference (FAT32 on Windows based machines and HFS+ for Macs). As long as you're going to do a complete restore it doesn't really matter what the format of the storage is beforehand, it doesn't even need to have any partitions or a partition table.

Basically a long winded way of saying that as long as you're doing a restore of the original firmware, anything goes as long as the hardware and software have a path to the raw storage that they can agree on.


[Saint]

RockBoxNewB:
Hi guys,

let me give you another status update on how things are going.
After my first simple tests went well, I then went one (or maybe even two) steps further and activated my favorite theme as well as the database. Except for one situation where my iPod was stuck in one of the menus, still no trouble. After that, I copied my database over from my other iPod (7000+ entries) and used the "import modifications" option. This caused quite a number of hiccups. The first three times, "FAILED" was displayed and it didn't work. I have no clue what the problem was there...I re-initialized and rebooted a couple of times, and the third time was the charm! Phew. The import procedure took something between 2 and 3 hours (!!!) and drained the battery down to 30% again. Around 70 entries seem not to have been imported unfortunately... but considering the almost 7000 that HAVE been imported properly (as far as I can judge), I think this is a good bargain.

Since then, I have been using the iPod for a little more than one hour - and there have been NO skips at all! Touch wood.

From what I described, does anyone of you have an idea what the problem might have been in the first place? Is it the fact that I used just ONE big micro SD card as compared to three "smaller" ones? Would not seem to make sense to buy an iFlash Quad then, if you get nothing but problems when you use all slots...

By the way: which files do I need to copy between devices in order to import the database? Does the "changelog" suffice or do I also need one of the other files labeled "database..."?

Thanks once again,
RBNB

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