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Title: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Homer19k on January 24, 2020, 02:29:36 PM
Got myself some old Ipod Nano 2G for free. Put The stable release on it and it just straight up crashes / freezes after a few minuets/seconds. Tried latest dev-build as well. Same result. Battery seems alright too.

Normal Firmware works but i just hate not being able to simply drag and drop.The whole synchronizing just annoys me. 

Anybody with the same problem?
Title: Re: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Chronon on January 27, 2020, 11:16:55 AM
Try checking the FAT32 file system for errors. 
Title: Re: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Homer19k on January 27, 2020, 08:55:42 PM
Tried it found no problems. The apple firmware runs without problems. I dont think its a hardware issue.
Title: Re: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Chronon on January 27, 2020, 11:02:51 PM
Are there any actions that can trigger a crash? 
Title: Re: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Homer19k on January 28, 2020, 04:56:13 PM
Installed ROckbox again today and tested it. Cause seems completely random ,i fear, but it never plays longer than a few minuets.
Occasionally got a white screen with this error message

"undefined  instruction at 6008 pc:60083864 sp:00004bd8 bt end"

and got a Rockbox bootloader ATA Error  when i restarted
Title: Re: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Chronon on January 29, 2020, 10:13:00 PM
Does it freeze up if you don't start music playback?
Title: Re: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Homer19k on January 30, 2020, 06:13:22 AM
Yes it also crashes when i am fiddling around in the menue. Completely random
Title: Re: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Thoranaga on May 12, 2022, 05:18:38 AM
Same thing here .Tried latest dev builds but no luck .Player works fine in menus except when accessing debug/view disk info   or after playing music for 5-20sec   and then just froze .
 * Checked fat32 partition under win7 (ipod in disk mode ) -> no errors on partition
 * restored ipod with itunes and reinstalled rockbox             > no change
 * tried older builds ( oldest from 2017 )                            -> no luck

 Original apple software works just fine .
Title: Re: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Thoranaga on May 12, 2022, 09:21:47 AM
I also noticed that when I use external power the player works without crashing .
Title: Re: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Bilgus on May 12, 2022, 12:05:35 PM
Works on external power is a very important observation

Is it a flaky battery, power supply, or bad settings on our end
Title: Re: Ipod Nano 2G crashes and freezes
Post by: Thoranaga on May 13, 2022, 07:48:19 AM
 Battery is in good condition .Rockbox is loaded fresh with default settings .

 With other ipod nano 2g ( wich is now dead , board issue ) Rockbox worked just fine .