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Feature Ideas / Re: Add Main Menu customization to Settings
« Last post by iPodVT on April 18, 2025, 09:29:40 PM »Right - I was just suggesting a way to preemptively maintain easy alternative access before hiding the Plugins item in the Main Menu. The Shortcuts and/or Quick Screen links could be preemptively made accessible even if Files and Shortcuts are also subsequently removed from the Main Menu.
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Feature Ideas / Re: Add Main Menu customization to Settings
« Last post by chris_s on April 18, 2025, 09:22:25 PM »@iPodVT: Some users may want to hide the File Browser as well, so it is at least possible to lose access to the main menu config plugin.
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Feature Ideas / Re: Allow iPod lock switch to function as a light switch
« Last post by questions2000 on April 18, 2025, 09:16:27 PM »@crhis_s
Thank you for reply.
Ohh I did not think about "lock switch" achieving the "locking" of controls on a hardware level, I thought this was happening on a software level that could be changed.
That is unfortunate, I thought this could be a helpful feature.
Thank you again for reply/sharing this information.
If anyone is aware if this is possible, please mention it.
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@iPodVT
While I was typing this post I got a message that another user responded at the same time
Thank you for your reply as well.
Ahh I wish it was reverse, because my use case is slightly different.
But this answers the question I had, what does the "off" setting do
I had my backlight off at the time, so was not thinking about it as reverse
Different then what I am looking for unfortunately, but a good idea though.
Thank you for sharing this
Thank you for reply.
Ohh I did not think about "lock switch" achieving the "locking" of controls on a hardware level, I thought this was happening on a software level that could be changed.
That is unfortunate, I thought this could be a helpful feature.
Thank you again for reply/sharing this information.
If anyone is aware if this is possible, please mention it.
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@iPodVT
While I was typing this post I got a message that another user responded at the same time
Thank you for your reply as well.
Ahh I wish it was reverse, because my use case is slightly different.
But this answers the question I had, what does the "off" setting do
I had my backlight off at the time, so was not thinking about it as reverse
Different then what I am looking for unfortunately, but a good idea though.
Thank you for sharing this
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Feature Ideas / Re: Add Main Menu customization to Settings
« Last post by iPodVT on April 18, 2025, 09:05:27 PM »You can always access plugins via the File Browser. As well, you can put shortcuts to specific plugins into your Shortcuts menu or on your Quick Screen. All of those options would provide access even if you remove the Plugins item from the Main Menu.
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Feature Ideas / Re: Allow iPod lock switch to function as a light switch
« Last post by iPodVT on April 18, 2025, 08:55:23 PM »If you set 'Backlight on Hold' to 'Off', the backlight would turn off when you engage the Hold switch and turn on when you disengage the Hold switch. Of course, you wouldn't be able to manipulate the device while the Hold switch is engaged, but it is a way to manually turn the backlight off and on. I use it for that purpose - the backlight is only on briefly while I need to take some action(s) and then I immediately turn it off again with the Hold switch when I'm finished (for the time being) performing actions.
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Feature Ideas / Re: Add Main Menu customization to Settings
« Last post by questions2000 on April 18, 2025, 08:47:01 PM »Thank You
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Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players / Re: SSD sold by iPod Parts UK
« Last post by speachy on April 18, 2025, 08:35:08 PM »Didn't try the first one with Linux, Windows definitely could only see 27GiB, no matter what way I tried to look at the drive, nor did I try anything clever with putting the iFlash in some other kind of adaptor, only in the iPod (not at all sure what the computer would see if one did that, given that the ipod, to the limited degree I understand it, does some weirdness that obfuscates what the drive actually is and presents something quasi-fictional to the computer?).
Yeah, you'd directly plug the hard drive into the PC. Given that the Apple firmware is obfuscating what is exported over USB, we can't be sure if the failure is due to Apple's firmware or a limitation of the iFlash adapters themselves.
I don't Recall what rockbox supposedly reported when installed on that "27GiB" drive, but it was before I considered the Rockbox storage code rework to be "stable".
It's worth noting that _if_ the iFlash adapters do the right thing (ie properly handle >32bit addresses), then Rockbox is expected to JustWork(tm). Given that the ipod6g/7g partitions and formats the drive using 4K logical sectors, this means we could theoretically support a 16TiB FAT32 volume on those devices, even with MBR partitioning.
2200GB seems to translate to 2048.9GiB, which would surely be almost exactly 2TiB, so presumably would be right on the margin for exceeding the limit?
Yeah, the point is >2048.0GiB requires >32-bit addressing (with 512-byte sectors) My guess is that the reason the capacity is being reported wrong is that something in the middle (ie apple's disk-obfuscating firmware or the iflash firmware... or both) uses a 32-bit value for the capacity instead of 64-bit (technically 48-bit is all that's needed) which overflows.
Rockbox's core storage and filesystem code (plus the ATA drivers) should all be 64-bit-address clean now. The native SD stuff still needs work to support the large capacities that SDUC enables, but that probably won't happen unless someone donates a >2TiB SDUC card or three to the cause once they become available.
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Feature Ideas / Re: Allow iPod lock switch to function as a light switch
« Last post by chris_s on April 18, 2025, 08:26:40 PM »As far as I'm aware, the iPod hardware prevents any other button input from being read while the lock switch is engaged, so I don't think this is possible.
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Feature Ideas / Re: Add Main Menu customization to Settings
« Last post by chris_s on April 18, 2025, 08:20:42 PM »Good point!
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Starting Development and Compiling / Re: Build Failing...
« Last post by MinorKey on April 18, 2025, 01:38:55 PM »My guess "hw4 bl only" means Bootloader only build for hw4 variant. So, no wonder it fails for Normal build.
Thank you, that seems logical.