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Hardware / New Hardrive in IRiver iHP-120

« Last post by Jens_Woermer on September 22, 2024, 07:41:55 AM »

Does anybody have an idea if I can use this zif adapter

https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005005481489261.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.52594ae4CoPPCl&mp=1&gatewayAdapt=glo2deu

with this hardrive

https://www.cloudmarkt.de/transcendssds-ts512gmsa230s

to replace the old HDD?

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Hardware / Re: CF to SD flash modded iPod 4G Color poor battery life with Rockbox

« Last post by speachy on September 21, 2024, 08:27:56 AM »

I've been trying daily builds for years now hoping for some improvement with this issue but no dice.

If you've not seen _any_ change then you've not been trying daily builds "for years."

(Because if you had, you'd have definitely noticed better battery life, combined with massive drive corruption.  Take your pick.)

What I don't understand is why the stock firmware has no such problems. What does the stock firmware know that Rockbox doesn't?

The Apple firmware doesn't (1) ever completely power the iPod off, and (2) perform writes when you're not performing iTunes synchronizations.

The bottom line is that those ATA<->SD adapters don't support the *mandatory* ATA commands that ensure all writes are safely flushed (ie "safe to shut down") and _also_ fail to recover properly if you issue the shutdown command they they (illegally) don't claim to support.  Compounding this, many (most?) SD cards are quite power hungry even when completely idle, so if we can't power them down, we're going to end up burning more power than even the old spinning rust uses.

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: charging my ipod 6th gen

« Last post by speachy on September 21, 2024, 08:12:21 AM »

Just purchased a 6th gen ipod with rockbox. I'm having no luck in charging the device while also seeing the files. Could anyone help? My usb cables work with other ipods.

Have a look at chapter 3.3 of the manual:

https://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-ipod6g/rockbox-buildch3.html

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / charging my ipod 6th gen

« Last post by MNI on September 20, 2024, 06:13:50 PM »

Hi All -

Just purchased a 6th gen ipod with rockbox. I'm having no luck in charging the device while also seeing the files. Could anyone help? My usb cables work with other ipods. Thanks!

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Hardware / Re: CF to SD flash modded iPod 4G Color poor battery life with Rockbox

« Last post by eicca on September 20, 2024, 12:08:26 PM »

I have no experience with this combination, but why not try a current daily build instead of one that is over a year old?

You are not going to get much support on the version you have, many things have changed/improved since.

Backup your current build if you want to keep it, just copy the Rockbox dir.

I've been trying daily builds for years now hoping for some improvement with this issue but no dice.

What I don't understand is why the stock firmware has no such problems. What does the stock firmware know that Rockbox doesn't?

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Rockbox Utility / Re: Rockbox Utility and Hi Fi Walker H2

« Last post by dconrad on September 19, 2024, 07:58:02 PM »

Just as a few points to sanity check:

What version of Rockbox Utility are you using?
I'm sure you've already tried the "Refresh" button to the right of the drop-down?
And the SD card is in the player, right?

(You'll laugh, but it's good to do a sanity check...)

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Rockbox Utility / Rockbox Utility and Hi Fi Walker H2

« Last post by cdavis2260 on September 19, 2024, 04:08:09 PM »

i connected my Hi Fi Walker H2 and ran the Rockbox Utility in order to install Rockbox. The microSD card showed up on F: However the Rockbox Utility only read G and I tried to eject it and ejection failed. I could not change it to F. It did not see F in the dropdown. I have a PC with Windows 10. It gives me a mountpoint error. Mountpoint does not exist. I even rebooted and the Hi Fi Walker H2. It always comes up on F and then rebooted the Rockbox Utility. How can I get it to read Hi Fi Walker H2 on F?

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Hardware / Re: Issues with installing iPod mini v2 2005 128gb

« Last post by sweebiegeebie on September 19, 2024, 09:45:47 AM »

I am a novice with terminal, how do I run as administrator?  does with su mean sudo command?

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Playing and browsing from the file browser has become sluggish on Clip+

« Last post by speachy on September 18, 2024, 01:35:21 PM »

There are several folks who use this as their daily driver with no issues, so we're going to need way to semi-reliably reproduce the problem you're seeing if there's any hope of intentionally addressing it.

Eg, does it happen with the latest build, stock theme, and default configuration?    If not, then which setting change leads to this?   Does the specific file(s) matter?   Has the storage device been checked for errors?  etc etc.

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Hardware / Re: Issues with installing iPod mini v2 2005 128gb

« Last post by saratoga on September 18, 2024, 12:35:51 PM »

Permission denied, so try running as administrator or with su.