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Other - Installation/Removal / Re: FiiO M3K Install (Native port)
« Last post by STEELBAS on Today at 05:57:14 PM »Anyone else have the issue that the SD card seems to slowly get corrupted over time? I've had to format and re-copy all music and Rockbox to it twice now. After about, I don't know, 50-100 boots, I start getting errors on boot that the .rockbox directory isn't found. Checking the disk for errors with a partition manager and copying the latest Rockbox version to it fixes it for a while, but after some time that also doesn't work anymore.
Maybe it's that the SD card is slowly failing. I've had it in a Rockboxed iPod Photo before, with one of those SD card mods, which also didn't really work swimmingly.
It might be too early to celebrate, but I just deleted the database files created by Rockbox (I decided to try out the database, silly me), and that seems to have solved my booting issues?
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: iPod 6 Classic with Rockbos is not recognized by Windows 10 after adding files
« Last post by QRDeNameland on Today at 03:17:17 PM »When you say it was working before - did you ever boot it into the original firmware? I gather that if you do that with a 6th gen that has more than 128gb it won't react well. Not sure what exactly it would do, maybe just lose everything over 128gb or more likely just declare that it needs to be restored?
No, I think you are correct here. If I plug it into a computer with iTunes installed, it recognizes that there is iPod attached but then just gives an error. I have never been able to get it to boot to the original firmware. In fact, with the last rebuild, I could only mount it as a drive on a computer *without* iTunes installed.
Still, it doesn't seem as if it's copying the files that is the issue, it was fine, and even seemed to OK with *building* the database, it just dies after trying to reboot.
If I can ever manage to get it to be recognized as a drive again, even just to be able to reformat from scratch, it seems the best option is to just not use the database.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: iPod 6 Classic with Rockbos is not recognized by Windows 10 after adding files
« Last post by Frankenpod on Today at 02:43:17 PM »When you say it was working before - did you ever boot it into the original firmware? I gather that if you do that with a 6th gen that has more than 128gb it won't react well. Not sure what exactly it would do, maybe just lose everything over 128gb or more likely just declare that it needs to be restored?
And the problem, as I understand it, is that RB isn't flawless at writing to the drive with flash mods - something to do with the timings or with power saving modes or something?
So it might work fine for a while until you write files to it or try to build the database and it gets corrupted. I guess you just were lucky with the initial sync of content to it, but then your luck turned.
My understanding is that that has gotten much better with more recent versions of RB, but I haven't really experimented with it much myself - don't want to risk messing the file system up. Was actually curious to know if it had been entirely fixed now, but sounds as if not.
Usually the the way out is to use the original firmware to fix or delete any corrupted files, but I don't think that's possible for a 6th gen because of that 128gb limit.
Disk mode is just the feature of the original non-rockboxed ipod that lets it connect to the computer as just a USB storage device (hold down centre button and play button)
And the problem, as I understand it, is that RB isn't flawless at writing to the drive with flash mods - something to do with the timings or with power saving modes or something?
So it might work fine for a while until you write files to it or try to build the database and it gets corrupted. I guess you just were lucky with the initial sync of content to it, but then your luck turned.
My understanding is that that has gotten much better with more recent versions of RB, but I haven't really experimented with it much myself - don't want to risk messing the file system up. Was actually curious to know if it had been entirely fixed now, but sounds as if not.
Usually the the way out is to use the original firmware to fix or delete any corrupted files, but I don't think that's possible for a 6th gen because of that 128gb limit.
Disk mode is just the feature of the original non-rockboxed ipod that lets it connect to the computer as just a USB storage device (hold down centre button and play button)
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: iPod 6 Classic with Rockbos is not recognized by Windows 10 after adding files
« Last post by QRDeNameland on Today at 02:24:58 PM »I wonder if the main issue is that it's a 6th gen, so can't cope with more than 128g in original firmware mode. Usually I'd say the solution to your database issue would be to boot it in original firmware or disk mode, and then connect it to the computer and delete the files causing the problem. But with a 6th gen if it has >128gb, and you boot it in the original firmware mode, weird things can happen, as the original firmware of a 6th gen can't cope with larger drives. So there may be no way to fix it.
I was wondering whether rockbox's ability to support flash mods had improved to the point where it could be used exclusively without needing the original firmware. Because that would make ipods older than 7.5gen usable for such mods. But from what you are reporting it sounds as if that isn't the case...unless there's some other problem going on.
But it was working before, with well over 500GB of files on it, even with v 3.15. Why is not working now after simply copying new files to it? Also, what is 'disk mode'....is that the same as DFU mode? It is very difficult to collate all of the terminology when scouring through 20 years of forums posts.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: iPod 6 Classic with Rockbos is not recognized by Windows 10 after adding files
« Last post by Frankenpod on Today at 02:06:28 PM »I wonder if the main issue is that it's a 6th gen, so can't cope with more than 128g in original firmware mode. Usually I'd say the solution to your database issue would be to boot it in original firmware or disk mode, and then connect it to the computer and delete the files causing the problem. But with a 6th gen if it has >128gb, and you boot it in the original firmware mode, weird things can happen, as the original firmware of a 6th gen can't cope with larger drives. So there may be no way to fix it.
I was wondering whether rockbox's ability to support flash mods had improved to the point where it could be used exclusively without needing the original firmware. Because that would make ipods older than 7.5gen usable for such mods. But from what you are reporting it sounds as if that isn't the case...unless there's some other problem going on.
I was wondering whether rockbox's ability to support flash mods had improved to the point where it could be used exclusively without needing the original firmware. Because that would make ipods older than 7.5gen usable for such mods. But from what you are reporting it sounds as if that isn't the case...unless there's some other problem going on.
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Feature Ideas / Re: Skip tp next file even if loop one is set.
« Last post by Bilgus on Today at 08:45:47 AM »Had a weird skipping bug, is fixed in latest dev build
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: [320x240] adwaitapod series of themes
« Last post by Dook on Today at 07:31:52 AM »Is there any way you could make the blue color on the home screen widgets, the quick screen and the track progress bar match the user's line selector color? It really clashes with my preferred colors.
This is something I spent some time exploring this idea during development, however the results did not look very good at all. One big issue is that currently the theming engine has no way to get a user's line selector colour. My current plan is to create an accent colour pack that will work similarly to the wallpaper pack, except changing the accent colours to a chosen one of a small number of colours (think red, yellow, green, purple etc). In a future update, I will come back to this and attempt to find a better solution.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: iPod 6 Classic with Rockbos is not recognized by Windows 10 after adding files
« Last post by QRDeNameland on September 22, 2023, 10:39:58 PM »Yeah, I can't even get it back to the point where AOMEI sees it so that I can reformat it again. It does show up in Device Manager when in DFU mode, though.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: iPod 6 Classic with Rockbos is not recognized by Windows 10 after adding files
« Last post by Frankenpod on September 22, 2023, 02:37:08 PM »Oh, just noticed you say it was originally an 80gb ipod - so it's a 6th gen that won't recognise more than 128gb in original firmware mode. That's going to make it more difficult to fix anything.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: iPod 6 Classic with Rockbos is not recognized by Windows 10 after adding files
« Last post by Frankenpod on September 22, 2023, 02:30:11 PM »Have you deleted (via the computer) any database files left on the ipod from the previous failed attempts to build it? If the old, broken, database-related files are still on there, that might prevent even the newer version of RB from successfully building the DB.
I reformatted the iPod drive completely, so there shouldn't be anything left from previous attempts. And it looks like I will have to do so again, as I am again in the situation where none of my 3 computers will actually mount it as a drive.
Based on these subsequent comments, I don't feel like I have any good options if the simulator is so out of date. Maybe I just reformat/reload again and just don't use the database...just build some playlists? It seemed to be working before initializing the database.
Can't really tell what's going on, then. If trying to build the database is actually corrupting the storage so comprehensively that the ipod can no longer be seen by the computer, then that's more extreme than any issues with the database I've experienced. Database building would often fail or produce an incomplete corrupt database (and get stuck on a "committing database" step), but it didn't stop the device connecting to the computer. And those problems seemed to go away with newer versions of RB.
Can you boot it into disk mode (centre-button-and-play-button) [or even just force it to reboot into original firmware, by force-rebooting it then holding the menu button down as it boots] and if so can the computer then see it? If that works you could then try deleting the failed database files, which might stop it freezing at that step every boot.