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Most recent reliable build for iPod Color?

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Pond:
I have a 20GB iPod Color from a friend who's upgraded to a 5.5g 80GB unit. He's interested in Rockbox so has given me the player to experiment with 8-)

Now, I realise that there is no official iPod Rockbox release yet, but the various Wiki pages related to the Rockbox iPod port do describe the iPod Color build as "very stable". My experience is to the contrary, with various builds including the 08-Nov Daily build. Basically, after a few minutes of playback, the player will just hang and needs hardware restart. I've seen the odd hang while navigating through menus, though this is relatively rare; I've seen the odd abort; but the one consistent fault is a hang after only a few minutes of playback.

I've tried a few CVS builds, a few daily builds and even installed the VMPlayer based development environment and rolled my own. They all crash. An "occasional" requirement to reset the iPod is listed in the known bugs for the port, but this isn't occasional; it's frequent. Rockbox is, sadly, unusable in this state.

Is this the experience of others on this forum with current iPod builds on iPod Color hardware? I presume my hardware is OK because the Apple firmware has no trouble, but maybe there's some hardware variant issue here or something. On the other hand, if current builds are known to be shaky, can anyone please recommend a more stable, older build to try out?

Thanks :)

scorche:
It is the expected behavior.  Not sure what wiki pages you see that, but there is a reason it is listed as "partial" in http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DeviceChart

It typically affects most units with the Portalplayer 5020 processor.  Use the frequency scaling patch to help things along (although it is not a full fix).  There should be an unofficial build in the forums with that patch.

Pond:

--- Quote from: scorche on November 08, 2006, 07:00:50 PM ---Not sure what wiki pages you see that, but there is a reason it is listed as "partial" (...)
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OK. It's in the "Rockbox Status for Ipod Models" page, http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodStatus, in the overview table ("Very stable. Most (but not all) Rockbox features and plugins are working, but there are still a small number of important features unimplemented.").


--- Quote ---Use the frequency scaling patch to help things along (although it is not a full fix).
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I'll give it a try some time, thanks.

scorche:
Ah yes.  However, if you notice, it is listed in the Known Problems section.

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