IPOD (ALL MODELS) iFlash Adapter Issues [SOLVED!?]

[Cle]

Good day everyone. I just bought an ipod classic 7th gen with an iflash quad 512gb. May i know if th3 rockbox is already stable on this kind of mod? Thank you in advance for th3 answers

[philden]

Yes, it runs very well.

[tieflyer]

Well I am not sure if this is a iFlash adapter issue or just how I handle the ipod.  I have a classic 5th gen with iFlash solo with 256gb card.  When i let the battery go to the point that the ipod shuts off, and then recharge it, i start it back up, but it starts in the ipod firmware instead of rockbox.   I have found if i reinstall the bootloader it then boots to rockbox.  Has anyone found a work around for this issue?  Not sure what buttons i hit when i reboot, but I believe the hold slider is off and i may or may not have bumped the play/pause button before pressing the menu button.  I have the latest daily build as of 7/6/2023 on the unit as I added music yesterday and it rebooted in the ipod screen instead of rockbox. 

Love this firmware and i want to continue using it, however i do not want to have to reinstall the bootloader everytime i recharge or add music.

Thank in advance for any help you can provide!

[tieflyer]

well I think i may have found a reply to my question, i am going to try making sure the hold button is not on when i disconnect from the pc and or finish charging. 

[tieflyer]

Has anyone used a Samsung    EVO Select (Blue) UHS-I (U3) A2 V30 128gb card with iflash SD-CF Adapter in an ipod mini 2nd gen successfully?  I know the 256 and 512 are supposed to be compatable, but I think that the mini will only go up to 128, and I think that is plenty of space for the songs/albums I have. 

Thanks for your help and keep up this great product!!!

[woodensoul]

I have an iPod Mini 1G with a 512GB SD card and iFlash adapter.  Rockbox seems to work well except the battery life (with a brand new battery) is atrocious. Maybe 1.5 hours. I am running the daily build 230914.  Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this?

[saratoga]

^^ Open it up and see what part is getting hot?

[woodensoul]

I noticed the back felt warm after transferring a lot of files with the OF and then playing them in Rockbox.  I would have to check if it gets warm during normal playback in Rockbox. I can say that battery run time in the OF seems normal.  Testing right now and at 2.5 hours and 60% full battery.

The battery run time in Rockbox was much better with the spinning hard drive before I converted to SD.

My assumption is the iFlash adapter is getting warm based on how the back of the case seems to be acting like a heat sink.

[speachy]

... are you using an actual iFlash board, or is it a generic knockoff?

What you're reporting is unusual; the mSATA-based flash adapters are known to be very power hungry but the SD-based ones should, if anything, lead to improved battery times.

That said, rockbox actually disables some of the ATA power management stuff because it's known to lead to data corruption on the the iFlash SD adapters -- the tl;dr is that they don't properly handling the ATA power management commands, leading to massive data corruption if we try to tell the device to go into a state where it's safe to kill power (and then kill power a couple of seconds after we're told it's ok to do so)

[woodensoul]

On my iPod Mini 1G: I started out with the generic one but that was completely unreliable so I switched to an actual iFlash branded adapter.  Now it is reliable but terrible with battery life.

I am seeing the same issue on an iPod photo using the same iFlash adapter / generic green 50 pin to CF converter board.