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I just traded my friend an iPod Nano 8gb third generation for his 30gb iPod Video 5g.
It's been rockboxed by me already, but he explained to me that the battery is pretty bad (I'm getting about 1-4 hours). Is the replacement something that I could do easily? Also, the headphone jack only outputs from one side. I will be using it with a LOD when it arrives, but there is a replacement 3.5mm jack available on Amazon.
Which battery should I go for if I decide to do it myself?
Also, does Rockbox on an iPod support ALAC? I Haven't had a chance to try it yet.
I thought so. Anyway, I just started it up for the first time and when I'm in the Rockbox firmware, it just shuts off randomly! I get about three seconds of use. I boot into The Apple firmware and it runs perfectly....
I thought so. Anyway, I just started it up for the first time and when I'm in the Rockbox firmware, it just shuts off randomly! I get about three seconds of use. I boot into The Apple firmware and it runs perfectly....
strangely enough the same thing happened to me 3 times today. it shut down for no reason in the middle of a song, and when I boot back up everything is fine. untill I tried playing the same song, which happened again. so I deleted the song and then transfered from my computer again. the problem now seems fixed. it happened with two different songs.
I've been using RB for about a week now and never had such a problem before. I'm guessing either the songs got corrupted on my transfer, or in rockbox somehow (if that is possible, dunno really). Since those incidents, I've been using it for the last few hours and no problems..
As for battery life, yeah 1-4 hrs seems very short. I watched apricorn video on a site (cant remember where) and seems to be easy enough. though I read somewhere that you have to be careful when lifting and taking out the battery as someone just ripped the connection cord off completely. so dont use too much force and do it gently. I'm not sure so please confirm but I think you can use 580mah battery with 30gb (check apricorn ipod site). I have the 80gb 5.5 which comes with 600mah battery and I am getting a good 10~14 hrs ALAC playback. I dont use the EQ except for some live (bootleg - legal!) concert recordings where it makes the sound really nice (bassboost, stereo width & Channel configuration) . However, not sure if you can get that much battery hrs with 30gb as I have read it has 32MB RAM vs 80gb with 64MB, which can help with memory buffer and effect battery..
the RB does have some great advantages over the apple firmware, even if you dont use EQ much in general..
EDIT*** Apricorn shows 30gb ipod battery as 580mah...
I thought so. Anyway, I just started it up for the first time and when I'm in the Rockbox firmware, it just shuts off randomly! I get about three seconds of use. I boot into The Apple firmware and it runs perfectly....
strangely enough the same thing happened to me 3 times today. it shut down for no reason in the middle of a song, and when I boot back up everything is fine. untill I tried playing the same song, which happened again. so I deleted the song and then transfered from my computer again. the problem now seems fixed. it happened with two different songs.
I've been using RB for about a week now and never had such a problem before. I'm guessing either the songs got corrupted on my transfer, or in rockbox somehow (if that is possible, dunno really). Since those incidents, I've been using it for the last few hours and no problems..
If I'm using Rockbox, should I not sync with iTunes? Could that be the problem? Thanks for the video. It seems easy enough. I'll be ordering my battery soon.
you can sync from itunes and load the database on rockbox to navigate your music. the only downside is battery life. if you read the RB manual:
Using the Database
The database options can be accessed in Settings -> General Settings -> Database. The following attempts to explain the sub menus functions:
Load To Ram
Setting this to 'Yes' loads the database to the players RAM, allowing faster browsing and searching. Setting 'No' keeps the database on the disk, meaning slower browsing but it does not use extra RAM and saves some battery on boot up. However if you frequently use the database you should load to RAM as this will reduce the overall battery consumption as the disk does not need to spin on each search.
Since your ipod is 30gb, your onboard RAM is 32MB, and loading the database there might be taxing since you will have less memory for playback (and more hard drive spin for reading file). if you are using large lossless files this might be a problem.
To avoid that I painstakingly had to rebuild my music library in an ordered file structure so I could just navigate using file tree. it took me a while but now everything is neatly placed according to genre/ musician/albums etc..itunes is nice in that you don't have to worry about it, but when you want to step out of itunes, you realize the mess it creates with you files .
