originalsnuffy
Headphoneus Supremus
Thanks to the valiant support of Tarkan, I now have a working 240gb Ipod Video 5.5. The unit uses the best components of two ipods. The storage is a PNY SD card and it uses Tarkan's latest CF/SD adapter.
The strange thing is that is can run stock firmware 1.30 just fine, and can run the latest official version of Rockbox just fine. It took a bit of rebooting of the PC and the ipod, and a restore, but in both modes the unit can be accessed by Windows Explorer. That is important to me, as my primary goal is go use this as a transport for FLAC files in Rockbox.
The only challenge is that I am unable to boot back to regular firmware 1.30 from Rockbox. When switching to the hold button to swtich back, the unit shows the apple logo, then the display dims, then shows the apple logo again, etc. It never quite boots back to 1.30. If I switch the hold back off, it boots to Rockbox.
I tried reinstalling the Apple firmware, and the unit works normally. Then adding Rockbox back on again causes the issue. Manually removing Rockbox and its bootloader allows booting back to 1.30. So my best guess is that the bootloader for Rockbox is the culprit of these issues. I tried the Beyondwind Rockbox which is reallly meant to fix some timeout problems with SSD cards, but that did not fix any issues.
Has anybody run in to anything like this, and do you have any suggestions? As you know, Rockbox is clueless when it comes to playing videos, and can't handle any DRM laden files either.
The strange thing is that is can run stock firmware 1.30 just fine, and can run the latest official version of Rockbox just fine. It took a bit of rebooting of the PC and the ipod, and a restore, but in both modes the unit can be accessed by Windows Explorer. That is important to me, as my primary goal is go use this as a transport for FLAC files in Rockbox.
The only challenge is that I am unable to boot back to regular firmware 1.30 from Rockbox. When switching to the hold button to swtich back, the unit shows the apple logo, then the display dims, then shows the apple logo again, etc. It never quite boots back to 1.30. If I switch the hold back off, it boots to Rockbox.
I tried reinstalling the Apple firmware, and the unit works normally. Then adding Rockbox back on again causes the issue. Manually removing Rockbox and its bootloader allows booting back to 1.30. So my best guess is that the bootloader for Rockbox is the culprit of these issues. I tried the Beyondwind Rockbox which is reallly meant to fix some timeout problems with SSD cards, but that did not fix any issues.
Has anybody run in to anything like this, and do you have any suggestions? As you know, Rockbox is clueless when it comes to playing videos, and can't handle any DRM laden files either.