charge problems in IPOD FHOTO....

[itrow]

I have IPOD FHOTO 30G

and for charge him from the electricity (and not from USB) I need to bring him to open disk situat

what I need to do fore charge him without thet and if I can hear a music when I charge like outher players can?

[mightybrick]

You can charge without rebooting into disk mode by holding down the menu button while plugging in the dock connector cable.

[itrow]

I bib what you say but its only do himself charging. I hold the menu and plug the cable and then i saw a new mark like a cable. But its only the mark its not really charging and after some time the its get close.   So what i need to do to charge him?

[mightybrick]

With menu held, and the cable plugged in, are you still able to play music?  Or does the iPod act as if it were connected to the computer?

[itrow]

I can play music but it's didn't charge... only show he is plug

[mightybrick]

The only other thing I can think of would be the type of cable you are using.  Is it a firewire cable, or usb cable?  Could the cable be damaged?
I'm sorry, I don't know what else to recommend.

[jacobts]

well, when you have it plugged in and it shows a cable (assuming rockbox is loaded) it is charging but rockbox doesnt show that little charging sign like the original ipod firmware. You can just wait about an hour or two and see if the battery is charged.

if not, i dunno what to reccomend

[itrow]

I do what you say but its didnt charge my Ipod what can I do?

[Llorean]

Rockbox charges slower than the Apple firmware right now. This means that when you combine that with the fact that Rockbox uses more power than the Apple firmware, it's possible that you won't actually gain (or may even lose) power while in Rockbox.

The best solution for charging is still Disk Mode or Apple OS.

[itrow]

But If I want to play music and charge what can I do?

[Llorean]

Reverse engineer the USB controller within the PortalPlayer chip so that we can draw full power across USB instead of 1/5 of it.

[itrow]

How I can do thet, what exactly I need to do?

[Llorean]

Basically, there's nothing you can really do but wait until the device is more supported.

[itrow]

thanks  

[gravedigg154]

I don't know if photo's can do this but try changing it to the apple firmware like mightybrick says. If holding menu didn't work just try a couple more times or hold menu+select until it restarts then hold menu. It works for me but I have a video.