I'm not sure which forum is best for this, but technically this is a human interface issue I guess?
I'm on an iPod 5.5g 30gb with an iFlash Solo running daily build(s). I was running a build from somewhere around March until a week or two ago when I decided to upgrade to pull in new commits which are relevant to me. Since then I've noticed a strange behaviour with idle poweroff where, under certain conditions, my player will refuse all input and stay powered off until I hold the hard reset combo.
Steps to reproduce:
a) shut down the player by any means you like
b) click a button to boot it again
c) click no buttons, wait for the idle shutdown time to be reached, player shuts down without receiving any inputs
e) try to boot player again, all inputs fail as if the lock switch is engaged
f) hard reset key combo is necessary to wake it and boot again
You can 'spin' the scroll wheel or toggle the lock switch, but if you allow the player to idle power off without a button press it won't boot back up afterward, as if the lockswitch is engaged.
As long as you click something clickable - menu/skip L R/play pause/select whatever, for any reason - before the idle shutdown, it will act normally.
As far as I can tell this is a recent behaviour and it's present in all builds since at least the start of October. Unfortunately I can't be more specific about the time it may have been introduced.
I can't find any setting that relates to this (sleep timer is disabled, idle poweroff is set to 5min, idle backlight off settings are at defaults) but if there is one that might be causing this I'd love to know!
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Topic: iPod 5.5g - Strange idle poweroff bug (unresponsive after shutdown) (Read 1206 times)