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If you have a new model 5g (what some have been calling the 5.5g), it is not yet supported by Rockbox. The first generation 5g should work fine with firmware 1.2.
Quote from: Febs on October 06, 2006, 12:29:17 PMIf you have a new model 5g (what some have been calling the 5.5g), it is not yet supported by Rockbox. The first generation 5g should work fine with firmware 1.2.Well, according to the apple website, mine doesnt have the right serial number to be a 5.5g. However, I'm starting to suspect they havent listed all the serial numbers. I've been chatting with people on #rockbox for two days, and we can't get it working. Somehow I got the 2048 bit sectors like the 5.5g. Not sure if its because I have a 5.5g or if the restore I did after screwing it up re-did the sectors or what...
If it's a new 30 gig instead of the older model then you're out of luck. If it's an old model that's been flashed to the 1.2 firmware you can basically follow the directions for flashing firmware on the Ipod Linux forums. http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7748That's how to download and flash the firmware and reupload it to the ipod..... It's a better bootloader than rockbox's in my opinion.
Receieved a PM: QuoteIf it's a new 30 gig instead of the older model then you're out of luck. If it's an old model that's been flashed to the 1.2 firmware you can basically follow the directions for flashing firmware on the Ipod Linux forums. http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7748That's how to download and flash the firmware and reupload it to the ipod..... It's a better bootloader than rockbox's in my opinion.So I think i'm going to read the instructions and see what this is all about.
A quick and easy way to check if you have a 5.5G is to look and see if you have the search feature. Apple only enabled it on the 5.5gs, so if you have one of them, you'll have the search. If you don't, its a plane jane 5G.
I've just tried multiple restores of my 5g to v1.2 of Apple's firmware using iTunes 7.0.1, and it still has the normal 512 byte sectors.So it seems that either Apple shipped some "old" 5gs with 2048 byte sectors, or their list of "Late 2006" (aka 5.5g) serial numbers is incomplete. The list is on this page:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61688
Feature-wise, the new 5.5G iPods offer the following differences from the 5G iPods that debuted last year: * 60 percent brighter screens * Search * Significantly longer battery life during video playback * Quick Scroll — a new feature that shows the current letter of the alphabet in a heads-up display while scrolling through a list * Gapless playback * New video games * 640 × 480 video playback...The first two features, the brighter screen and the search feature, are only available on the 5.5G iPods. The remaining features are enabled for all 5G iPods updated with the latest firmware (version 1.2)
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