ipodpatcher

[scorche]

He is probably referring to command.com.  Also, many people use a digicam in these situations.

[GodEater]

Just for completeness sake - can you walk us through exactly how you're starting the command prompt in the first place ?

[iR0x]

Yeah I was talking about command.com which was the "real" command prompt used before win2k.
After that Microsoft replaced the command prompt by cmd which is as they call it an "emulated"
command prompt.

I suppose that if they changed the command prompt in Vista in order to make it open a new window
for each app, they probably updated their "emulated" cmd command prompt.

So if you can still run command.com, it might work.

To run command.com, go the your windows "Start" button, then choose "Run..", then type
"command", and press enter.

PS : It may be noteworthy to tell you that command.com does not support names that are longer than
8 letters. So if you have a folder called "Documents And Settings" you would need to use
"Docume~1".
But if you used "C:\rockbox\" there should be no problems.

[dvatterott]

ok yeah, command.com is still on vista, but it is doing the same thing as the command prompt.
To walk you through what I am doing. In the command prompt or command.com, I type in C: then press enter. I think type cd \rockbox followed by enter. Then I type in ipodpatcher --scan and press enter. This is when the application requests me to let it open and I say okay and it opens in a new command prompt or command.com window. The window will say something about searching for the ipod and then quickly disappear when it is done. When I request a output.txt (ipodpatcher --scan>output.txt), the .txt is a zero byte file with no text, obviously. When I type ipodpatcher --scan > output.txt, the output file is simply a file and contains zero bytes.  

[GodEater]

Ahhh - that starts to make sense. It's Vista trying to "protect" you from something which does some lowlevel hardware access.

I suspect it possible to turn this behaviour off specifically for ipodpatcher - I *know* it's possible to turn it off globally for the OS - although I don't have the details to hand. I suggest googling for a way to turn of this mode in Vista and see if that helps.

[dvatterott]

that was it, thanks for all the help

[linuxstb]

that was it, thanks for all the help

For the benefit of others, what did you have to do to fix it?

[dvatterott]

I had to edit the user account controls. Normally, vista asks if the user wants to allow a program to run and this causes the ipod patcher to open in a new window, but when this is turned off by going to the user account part of control panel it can be turned off and then follwed by a restart, everything works fine.

[Diaskue]

Okay, I'm trying to install Rockbox onto my 2Gb. iPod nano gen 1. I copied the orginal firmware,but installing the file "bootloader-ipodnano.ipod" will not work. I comes up with the line:

   [ERR] --add-bootloader failed.

I tried redownloading the bootloader, and repeating the step.

Im entering in the command promt:

   C:/rockbox/ipodpatcher 2 -a bootloader-ipodnano.ipod

Can you help me?

[Febs]

My guess is that you have the bootloader-ipodvideo.ipod file in the \rockbox file, but you're running ipod patcher from your root directory.

Take a look at this thread:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=8106

and this one:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=8103

[Diaskue]

no the file name is "bootloader-ipodnano.ipod", and thanks ill try those threads.

[Diaskue]

thanks I fixxed the problem. Working on another, Rockbox error: -1. Thanks for the help.

[Chronon]

That usually means that the bootloader can't find the rockbox.ipod file in the root.

[Diaskue]

how can I fix that error?

[Chronon]

Did you write the .rockbox folder and the rockbox.ipod file to the root of your iPod?  If they aren't there then obviously you need to put them there.