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Do I Have to Keep Apple's Firmware?

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wswartzendruber:
If I wanted to, could I install the Rockbox (via x86_64 Linux) firmware without keeping any of Apple's software?  What am I required to keep?

linuxstb:
Rockbox doesn't alter the contents of the flash ROM, which is where the Apple bootloader/disk-mode/diagnostics mode lives, so you can't remove that.  Rockbox also doesn't have its own usb disk mode, so removing the Apple disk mode would leave you unable to access your ipod anyway...

But you can completely replace the firmware on disk.  Using ipodpatcher, you have two options:

ipodpatcher [device] -wf bootloader-ipodXXXX.ipod

which will replace the Apple firmware on disk with the Rockbox bootloader.

Or even:

ipodpatcher [device] -wf rockbox.ipod

which will put the main Rockbox binary in the firmware partition, without any bootloader.

Before you use the -wf command, you may want to do:

ipodpatcher [device] -rf apple_os.ipod

to extract the main Apple firmware if you ever want to restore it.  Or you can then copy the apple_os.ipod file to either the root of your FAT32 partition or inside the .rockbox/ folder, and the bootloader will load the Apple firmware from there.

wswartzendruber:
So in other words, I can still trash Apple's iPod UI?

Hvatum:
Nice, I do this to save space on my iPod. I see absolutely no reason for keeping the iPod firmware. I've got the iPod Nano 2GB, so the slow transfer is tolerable.

I'm really impressed. This now start much faster then before. Ironic, that it now boot in a faster time then the original Apple firmware!  ;D

Does anyone have an idea how one can increase the transfer speed under Rockbox, maybe this feature worked on? Is this possible? Thanks for the help!

Jakeworld:
Is there any wiki page that has this information available? This is actually a very useful feature, and I have simply saved the commands to a document, but if there is a wiki on this, that'd be great. Thanks.

Edit: What do you mean by "transfer rate?" If you mean transferring the songs from the computer to the iPod, it really depends on the medium you're transferring from for one, but also since you're transferring through USB, you're automatically restricted in the maximum transfer rate. I personally find that by transferring manually, it takes less than 10 minutes to transfer 6GB of songs, whereas iTunes takes almost 20 minutes.

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