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condictio:
 Hi all,
I hope that I'm posting this in the right forum, sorry if not. Anyway I got a problem with buttons and this is - in my opinion - a hardware problem.
I'd like to stress, that I really  like rockbox and it's  much better than  original firmware, so I'd like it to work properly.

Here's the problem. Since I've installed rockbox, there is a continuous problem with responding of the buttons. Shortly - they almost never  respond on the first and next few  keypresses. I know there is an option "first keypress backlight only" - but it's turned off and it still happens. And it's not only the first keypress.  The wheel itself works OK, so it's only the buttons. Sometimes - but very rarely - it reacts properly on the first keypress.I haven't noticed it when using  original firmware and I wonder what is the possible cause of this problem, which is really annoying. :-(  If someone has an idea how to fix it, I'd be very grateful.

Mthrsuperior:
I've noticed this too.
For me, it's not that the buttons don't respond it's that there is a delay of 1-2 seconds and I tend to get impatient and keep pressing.

I too thought I may have had the first press = backlight enabled but I don't.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thx

...edit to add:   it seems that the delay is in the display, not the action of the buttons.  For example, I press "pause" and the music pauses instantly but the display icon doesn't change to the pause icon for 1-2 seconds.
...edit again.....I read in another thread about current technical limitations impacting the display refresh speed.
I guess there's our answer.
 ;D

bascule:

--- Quote from: Mthrsuperior on December 05, 2006, 11:49:36 AM ---...edit to add:   it seems that the delay is in the display, not the action of the buttons.  For example, I press "pause" and the music pauses instantly but the display icon doesn't change to the pause icon for 1-2 seconds.
--- End quote ---

Not necessarily, that particular effect may be to do with crossfade. I get that all the time and also next track info disappearing from the WPS before that track starts, even though I only have it set to 'crossfade on skip only'

condictio:
In my case, there is also this delay (about 1-2 sec.), but it's something different than non responding at all. In the first case I push the button and nothing happens, but after a few seconds it reacts.  In the second case I push the button, nothing happens, I wait and still nothing happens. If it's only a delay you can feel the disk starting to spin after keypress, what means that it reacts, but the reaction itself is slightly delayed. If there's no reaction - exactly nothing happens after keypress, you can wait and wait and still nothing, the disk doesn't spin and it looks like the device doesn't "know" that the key has been pressed.  ??? I tried to wait, but after a minute you can't say that it's a delay - it obviously doesn't react at all. If it's only the firmware  I can live with it hoping that sooner or later this problem will be solved. But I'm a bit scared that maybe something is wrong with my ipod itself, that it's broken or something... :'(

Krellion:
Please remember that Rockbox on the iPod is still a major work in progess.

A lot of the code hasn't been tweaked to run the best it can, so there will be times where there'll be a delay in an event happening, especially if there is music playing. Sometimes the button press event won't be seen at all and you'll just have to try again.

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