Support and General Use => Hardware => Topic started by: gechu on April 16, 2009, 04:22:55 PM
Title: Ipod Video - play songs while charging?
Post by: gechu on April 16, 2009, 04:22:55 PM
Is it possible?
Thanks, Erik
Title: Re: Ipod Video - play songs while charging?
Post by: Chronon on April 16, 2009, 04:51:42 PM
Do the instructions in the manual not work?
Title: Re: Ipod Video - play songs while charging?
Post by: gechu on April 17, 2009, 01:51:26 AM
The HTML version of the manual wasn´t very searchable due it´s structure. Tried the PDF this morning but couldn´t locate something useful using the search term "charge".
If you have better key words please let me know.
Title: Re: Ipod Video - play songs while charging?
Post by: cool_walking_ on April 17, 2009, 03:05:53 AM
Title: Re: Ipod Video - play songs while charging?
Post by: gechu on April 17, 2009, 03:35:41 AM
Thanks for the google tips cool_walking_!
I actually read about holding MENU pressed at startyp over at head-fi.org but I couldn´t get it working and assumed there had been a change in the code.
I use the Rockbox 3.2, anyone else with a Ipod 5.5G 80GB hdd having the same problem?
Title: Re: Ipod Video - play songs while charging?
Post by: cool_walking_ on April 17, 2009, 04:11:25 AM
It's not at startup, it's while connecting the USB cable. Since you mentioned "at startup", I wonder if you got mixed up with holding MENU+SELECT, which causes the iPod to reboot, or SELECT+PLAY at boot time, which starts disk mode. Both of those are unrelated to this.
It definitely *did* work at one time, at least, but I've broken my iPod a few weeks ago, so maybe the feature's been broken, I dunno.
Title: Re: Ipod Video - play songs while charging?
Post by: Chronon on April 17, 2009, 01:07:59 PM
I don't have any iPod either, so I'm only going off of what's in the manual. Let us know if it doesn't work for some reason.
By the way, holding MENU at startup will cause the Apple firmware to boot.
Title: Re: Ipod Video - play songs while charging?
Post by: audio-i on April 17, 2009, 02:12:12 PM
It worked for me on an iPod video and a Mini 2G. gechu, perhaps the part that you are missing, is that you have to hold "menu" while running Rockbox (with your iPod on, not off), and before/while plugging the USB; otherwise it will happen what Chronon says.