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Why is the ipod4g UI so slow with the most recent dailies? (SOLVED)
Shovas:
I mentioned in a previous post that the 2007-03-01 daily seems to have the fixed the long standing aggravation of instability for ipod4g users. But, now I'm finding unacceptable UI responsiveness. When I first experienced this, I started boosting the cpu freq manually so it was running at 75mhz all the time. It still doesn't help. As an example, sometimes I'll be able to hit Next a few times and it's pretty quick. Then on a random Next it'll take upwards of 15-20 seconds. It doesn't matter if I've hit Next once or many times, it's random.
If I'm playing a song and I hit Menu it will sometimes be almost instant but sometimes it will take the same 15-20 seconds.
Not only that, but I'm finding songs above 192kbps (all oggs) can't be decoded fast enough for play without stops. I've tried the anti-skip buffer but nothing helps. I am also not running some of those backgrounds tasks such as directory cache or the database features.
None of this used to be an issue with the dailies from Jan 1st and Feb 1st. I noticed that new menus and icons have been introduced during that time. Maybe this is where the problem lies? Maybe the ipod4g can't handle the extra features introduced related to the new icons and menus?
Llorean:
Firstly: What bootloader version are you using?
Secondly: Please, don't report problems with an older daily. At least be using the current build to make sure it wasn't a temporary problem. Make sure you're using the most recent bootloader and most recent build first, then see if it can be reproduced.
Shovas:
While I only download a specific date daily, I download the latest bootloader at the time I create the build.
60972 Feb 4 08:50 bootloader-ipod4g.ipod
Point of interest, I reinstalled 20070201 and I'm not running into any problems 20070301 on the same songs.
I will try today's daily and see if it had the problems the first of the month had.
Llorean:
So, your bootloader is from Feb 4th? Please, update to the latest official one following the official installation process.
Also, is your build at all patched, since you mention making your own build?
Shovas:
Actually, while the timestamp on the bootloader file said Feb. 4th, that's actually the timestamp from the server when I downloaded it on 2007-03-01 to install that daily.
I just downloaded the boot loader today (2007-03-10) and it's timestamp is March 6. Still you have a point.
I'm running 2007-03-10 right now testing the song that killed 2007-03-01 and I'm not hearing any problems yet.
As a side note, this is how I easily install dailies:
http://me.selah.ca/pub/tmp/do.sh
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