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Feature Ideas / Disable the backlight when charging in the bootloader

« Last post by bobba_mosfet on Today at 04:50:55 PM »

On my iPod 6G very occasionally I manage to completely exhaust the battery and must charge the iPod via the bootloader. I can't help but think that keeping the backlight on while it is charging makes it charge slower.

Does anyone know if this makes any significant difference to charging speeds?

I have created a patch for the bootloader, but would like someone more knowledgable with the codebase to tell me if it would work before I try to test it (as I don't know a better way than depleting my battery!):

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@@ -209,6 +209,17 @@
         if (power_input_status() != POWER_INPUT_NONE) {
             lcd_set_foreground(LCD_RBYELLOW);
             printf("Low battery: %d mV, charging...     ", vbat);
+            if (button_hold()) {
+                if(is_backlight_on()) {
+                    backlight_off() // Turn the backlight OFF when charging if the hold switch is ON.
+                }
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                if(is_backlight_on() != 1) {
+                    backlight_on() // Turn the backlight ON when charging if the hold switch is OFF.
+                }
+            }
             sleep(HZ*3);
         }
         else {


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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Error(s) attempting to playback FLACs on an iPod Color/Photo

« Last post by PoweredByTea on February 07, 2023, 01:15:11 PM »

Thank you for the recommendation, saratoga.  Selecting and installing the current build available to the installer appears to have resolved the issue.

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Dealing With Long Database Delays

« Last post by Bilgus on February 07, 2023, 10:45:34 AM »

This is now merged:
https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/5118

the new options are about 10x faster

the formatted option is around 2x faster

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Apple - Installation/Removal / Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.

« Last post by saratoga on February 07, 2023, 10:27:45 AM »

I believe you can just not enable dual boot when installing the bootloader with mks5lboot. 

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Apple - Installation/Removal / Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.

« Last post by Frankenpod on February 07, 2023, 01:19:15 AM »

Is there not a way to entirely disable dual-boot?  I dimly remember that being mentioned at some point.  I suppose it would need a modified boot-loader?  Maybe it was a custom-patch someone produced?

Seems it came up in this (ancient) thread

https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=42520.0

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Apple - Installation/Removal / Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.

« Last post by LiverpoolBear on February 06, 2023, 09:40:36 PM »

I've installed the Rockbox Bootloader, but if I switch over the Hold button it will then try and boot into Apple.  This is where I get the message asking me to connect it to iTunes to restore it.

My plan is to never do this, and have it boot into Rockbox.

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Apple - Installation/Removal / Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.

« Last post by saratoga on February 06, 2023, 09:36:29 PM »

Are you booting the Apple firmware?  I believe it will try to repartition to the storage back to something it understands if you do that.  If you're going to use storage that isn't compatible with it you might want to install rockbox without dual boot just to make sure you don't accidentally reboot into it and lose your storage.

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Apple - Installation/Removal / iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.

« Last post by LiverpoolBear on February 06, 2023, 06:44:20 PM »

Hi All,

I had an 6th Gen 80gb iPod that I had upgraded to 256gb that worked with Rockbox.  I lost this, or rather the removal company did during the move from the UK to Australia.  I bought a second hand one the other week, as well as an iFlash Quad and a Sandisk 512gb SD card.

I successfully upgraded the iPod over the weekend.  The only problem is the iPod will only recognise 128gb of the 512gb.

I have taken the card out again, used Windows Disk Manager to remove the partitions so that I get it back to 512gb only for the iPod to then put it back to 128gb.

Can someone please confirm that the way to do this is as follows:

1) Restore iPod via iTunes and install Rockbox on it. 
2) Copy only the Rockbox folder from the iPod / SD Card onto my PC.
3) Use Windows Disk Manager to restore the SD card back to 512gb.
4) Put the copied Rockbox folder back on the card from my PC.
5) Copy my entire Music folder onto the card.
6) Put the card back into the iPod.

Many thanks and all the best.

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: [IPod Mini] Font Conversion

« Last post by aaaaalbb on February 06, 2023, 01:43:31 PM »

Ohh I see. Well, that's good news. At least now I know I didn't miss some arguments in the program. I also tried modifying the header of the output .fnt file (modifyng the byte that indicated if it is monocrome or anti-aliased) but I only got corrupt characters after that. I will update after I used convertbdf

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: What are ##MUSIC# and ##PORT# listed in Main Menu and Files ?

« Last post by bluebrother on February 06, 2023, 11:38:08 AM »

Words of wisdom from
that post - ' I'd recommend just ignoring them' .........but easier said than done .

Tidy but stray space before the dot after the sentence and improper use of an ellipsis 😆

You can set them to hidden in Windows Explorer. Unless you configure Rockbox to show all files it will then hide them.