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trenche:
sry for being a bit offtopic:
Hi folks!

[Prologue]:
I didn't have internet access since July and therefore I'm still using an almost ancient rockbox build on my 5G ipod. As far as I can remember it's a senab build with julius patch and jBlackGlass Themes. Don't get me wrong: I'm actually totaly satisfied with this rockbox version. But as I now have internet again, the rockbox page was one of the first pages I surfed to :)
[/Prologue]
THX to everyone who didn't quit reading so far :D
Now I've got some questions.

1. Although I'm satisfied with my version of rockbox, I'm dying to know what progress the project made since my last glimpse of it. So is there any new kick-ass feature since Jul/06 I should't want to miss? (Sure I could read the whole changelog since my last visit, but maybe someone could outline the major changes in short.)

2. It seems that there are quite a lot popular "unsupported" builds at the moment. I planned using a Julius or a senab build, but I couldn't figure out the main differences between them two. Could someone give me a hint? Is there maybe another not too experimental build I should have a look at?

3. Do I have to consider something when updating such an outdated version of rockbox? Maybe I have to flash a new bootloader? Or can I just overwrite the .rockbox directory and the rockbox.ipod and that's it?

I hope my post is right in here, in case it's not: move please. Since it's only allowed to create threads containing new builds in the "Unsupported Builds"-board (yeah.. I've read the rules *smilie removed*) and as my question is mainly related to unofficial builds, I didn't know where to post..
And keep up the damn good work, guys! I would contribute if I wasn't too lame to code :/


Anyway: thanks in advance for reading & maybe someone has a litte time and could help me with my questions :)

cheers,
trenche

Genre9mp3:
1. http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/MajorChanges

2. I don't use unsupported builds and neither have an iPod 5G. You can read details though about these builds in the appropriate threads in Unsupported Builds forum.

3. As you will see in the Major Changes page, there's a new bootloader out for iPods so you have to update both bootloader and Rockbox.

Febs:
This one is a big deal to me, since I often use my iPod in the car:


--- Quote ---2007-02-04: Ipods, sansa e200 and iriver h10 can now distinguish a charger from a real USB connection.
--- End quote ---

trenche:
Thx for your answers so far, they where very helpful for me :)
But could someone maybe describe in short what's the difference between the julius and the senab experimental build? I know I could get this information from their threads, but I have to admit that I'm to lazy to read through 50 pages of posts *g*

Llorean:
Since they're both unsupported builds, you really should read through their respective threads. Or at the very least read the most recent update for each and see which patches are included.

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