Well, my iPod wouldn't start up this morning. I've been using it in
iPod/iTunes mode for the past week+, without issue. This morning, had to
give it the 2finger to get it going. When it finally started up, there
was a quick flash before the Apple logo, but I couldn't catch of it was
a low battery symbol. When it came all the way up, I did notice the
battery was only at 50% charge. Which is very odd, since I didn't use it
off charger for any length of time yesterday. It should've been at least
90%.
Looking at the Last Played timestamp in iTunes shows what I expected.
Nothing was played between 5:38 pm yesterday & 8:04 am today...
Seems like it didn't properly go to sleep last night.
Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
David Hall wrote:
Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
I'm also wondering if this is related to the iPod being formatted
FAT32. My iPod never gave me this kind of trouble until I had
reformatted on Windows iTunes to load Rockbox...
Two things pop to mind:
1 - The low battery symbol pops up w/o a disk spinup.
When it happened to me, I didn't catch any low battery symbol. I'm
not saying it didn't happen, I just didn't see it on my screen when it
finally did power up. Of course, I did have it plugged in to a charger
at those times. Next time I won't have it on a charger, to see...
2 - This happened to me when using the original firmware.
The only times I remember it happening is when I had Rockbox on the
iPod, in addition to the Apple firmware that gets loaded when I did the
Restore in iTunes v8 on Windows Vista Enterprise.
Rockbox was then dropped on using a Windows XP Pro Sp2 machine.
Rockbox Stable v3.1 & current r20102-090225.
I think the assumption that this is not uncommon behavior even with the
original firmware is well founded, as there:
A - are reports of this happening to people who have never used Rockbox.
B - is sound logic to the statement "bootloader problems are more likely
to be seen the more often you use the bootloader" Active Rockbox users
engage the bootloader possibly multiple times per day. Active Apple OS
users rarely _if ever_ engage the bootloader.
Agreed.
The only question, in my mind, is "does Rockbox increase the likelihood
this bug is triggered?"
This would be a time-consuming question to answer.
In my case, I would say yes, because of point B above. Before
Rockbox, I rarely kicked it over.
But another possibility, (I'm not a programmer but...) I presume the
firmware files are different for FAT32 and HFS, so I'm curious which way
the iPods are formatted when users experience this issue...
Again, time consuming question...
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