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[Ipodlinux-devel] Donation of a v3 IPod

[COFFMAN S. <SCo...@CO...>]

Hey Bernard,
I'd like to contribute to the "get Bernard a cool new iPod" fund. Could =
I paypal you the money to your e-mail address? If we don't raise =
sufficent funds for a model you'd like, it becomes the "get Bernard a =
number of free meals" fund or some such.

No strings attached, no expectations for work done in return (and =
probably not the full $300).

Although, I would be very interested in your assessment of the =
difference in processing power between the v3 iPod, older models, and =
the Neuros. Monty's made great strides in getting Vorbis supported on =
the Neuros hardware recently.

I read the archives of the list, but they remove e-mail addresses, =
so...uh.. can you Cc me your e-mail? Or send me directly some other way =
to get cash to you from the USA?=20
-Steve

Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Can't mount iPod.

[Adam S. <ipo...@ad...>]

Zach Hobbs (za...@fi...) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Today I bought a 10 gig "Mac and Windows" iPod and an IEEE 1394 card that is 
> on the list of suported hardware.  When I fdisk /dev/sda I see the iPod, but 
> not the partitions.  It says it's not of a known file system type.

I think it has trouble understanding the partition table.

> Do I have a HFS+ iPod?

Yes, the latest generation iPods come preformatted as HFS+.

> Most instructions for converting the HFS+ to FAT32 have you dd 
> /dev/sda2, and /dev/sda2 doesn't exist for me.  

It does once you've created it with fdisk as per the instructions
(e.g. the ones on the GNUpod page).  It all worked perfectly on my
30GB model.

Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Can't mount iPod.

[Jochen S. <jo...@sp...>]

* Zach Hobbs <za...@fi...> [03-06-23 06:46]:
> Hello,

Hello Zach,

> Today I bought a 10 gig "Mac and Windows" iPod and an IEEE 1394 card that is 
> on the list of suported hardware.  When I fdisk /dev/sda I see the iPod, but 
> not the partitions.  It says it's not of a known file system type.  Do I have 
> a HFS+ iPod?  Most instructions for converting the HFS+ to FAT32 have you dd 
> /dev/sda2, and /dev/sda2 doesn't exist for me.  

I remember reading something about an automatic conversion if you plug
the v3 IPod in under Windows first time. So generally spoken does it
work under Windows? Or try to reset it with the Apple updater.

[..]
> appreciate them greatly.
> 
> Thanks,
> Zach Hobbs

Good luck Jochen

[Ipodlinux-devel] Can't mount iPod.

[Zach H. <za...@fi...>]

Hello,

Today I bought a 10 gig "Mac and Windows" iPod and an IEEE 1394 card that is 
on the list of suported hardware.  When I fdisk /dev/sda I see the iPod, but 
not the partitions.  It says it's not of a known file system type.  Do I have 
a HFS+ iPod?  Most instructions for converting the HFS+ to FAT32 have you dd 
/dev/sda2, and /dev/sda2 doesn't exist for me.  

Here is the fdisk /dev/sda output when I hit 'p':
Disk /dev/sda: 10.0 GB, 10000005120 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1215 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Here's how I try to bring it up:
modprobe ieee1394
modprobe ohci1394
modprobe sbp2
modprobe sd_mod
mount /mnt/iPod

Here's what I see in my system logger, as you can see there is a big delay 
when running it:
Jun 22 23:16:41 [kernel] ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
Jun 22 23:16:41 [kernel] ieee1394: sbp2: Node[01:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max 
payload [2048]
Jun 22 23:16:41 [kernel] scsi0 : IEEE-1394 SBP-2 protocol driver (host: 
ohci1394)
Jun 22 23:16:41 [kernel]   Vendor: Apple     Model: iPod              Rev: 
1.40
Jun 22 23:16:41 [kernel] Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, 
id 0, lun 0
Jun 22 23:17:11 [kernel] ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Jun 22 23:17:11 [kernel] SCSI device sda: 19531260
 512-byte hdwr sectors (10000 MB)
Jun 22 23:17:11 [kernel] sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled

Here's how I bring it down:
rmmod sbp2
umount /mnt/iPod/

Here's what I get in the system logger:
Jun 22 23:17:51 [kernel] ieee1394: sbp2: Logged out of SBP-2 device
Jun 22 23:17:51 [kernel] scsi : 0 hosts left.

Here's my fstab entry:
/dev/sda2       /mnt/iPod       vfat	uid=1000,defaults,noatime,errors=remount

I can't figure out what the problem is, if you have any suggestions I would 
appreciate them greatly.

Thanks,
Zach Hobbs

[Ipodlinux-devel] dissecting the new ipod

[Gabe M. <gm...@ee...>]

There's a story on slashdot about dissecting the new ipod. Here's links  
to the two stories.

http://www.anandtech.com/audio/showdoc.html?i=1827
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/ 
1126230&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=180

And an earlier dissection.

http://www.ipoding.com/ 
modules.php?set_albumName=album06&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&inc 
lude=view_album.php

Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] ipodlinux-2.4.20-patch-0.3.gz apparently not a gzip file

[Jason M. <jaz...@at...>]

Hi Florin,
	I'd be interested to see what you've done, but I don't want to steal 
your thunder.  If I see someplace I could go that you haven't gone yet, 
I'll start there, or start from scratch as you suggested.  I read 
another e-mail in the archives that mentions a CVS repository for this 
project, but I couldn't find a mention of the actual location anywhere. 
  Has a CVS repository actually been set up (that would obviate the need 
to download this stuff over the web) and if so, what's the CVSROOT?

Thanks & Regards,

Jason Mazzotta

On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 04:18  PM, Florin Boariu wrote:

> i've started to do some work in that direction, i've written some 
> small structures and functions. what i planned to do was build a 
> directory-tree based menu system with different types of "handling 
> software modules" for different types of directory entries (like: 
> 'play'/'queue' for songs/playlists, 'browse' for directories, 'view' 
> for text files/binary files/whatever).
>
> but it's not complete yet, not documented, and not not fully working.
>
> the next weeks i have no chance of finishing that, since i have a lot 
> of work to do for school.
>
> but i can send you the sources i have so far -- you can choose to 
> start from there, or start from scratch and possibily use some code, 
> if you find it to be of useful ;-)
>
> regards,
> florin.
>
> Jason Mazzotta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     I'm not sure if I've got the skills to contribute to this 
>> project, but I would like to do so if possible.  I don't know if its 
>> been done already but an e-mail in the archives from April mentions 
>> trying to use ncurses to develop a user interface.  I think I know 
>> enough to work on that.  I tried downloading the source for the ipod 
>> linux kernel patch from a few of the different mirrors on 
>> sourceforge, but gzip tells me that the file is not in gzip format.  
>> Is there something I'm missing?  I realize I shouldn't need the 
>> kernel patch source to build a user interface, but I just wanted to 
>> read through it to learn something new.
>> Thanks,
>> Jason Mazzotta
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[Ipodlinux-devel] ipodlinux-2.4.20-patch-0.3.gz apparently not a gzip file

[Jason M. <jaz...@at...>]

Hi,
	I'm not sure if I've got the skills to contribute to this project, but 
I would like to do so if possible.  I don't know if its been done 
already but an e-mail in the archives from April mentions trying to use 
ncurses to develop a user interface.  I think I know enough to work on 
that.  I tried downloading the source for the ipod linux kernel patch 
from a few of the different mirrors on sourceforge, but gzip tells me 
that the file is not in gzip format.  Is there something I'm missing?  
I realize I shouldn't need the kernel patch source to build a user 
interface, but I just wanted to read through it to learn something new.


Thanks,

Jason Mazzotta

Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] new ipods

[Bernard L. <le...@bo...>]

Hi Agnus,

There are problems with the new v3 hardware.  If you boot with the iPod
powered it appears to somewhat work (the HDD is not detected) but if you
disconnect the power it dies during startup.

I'm still clutching at straws as to what the problem is as I don't have
a v3 iPod (any one interested in donating one should feel free :).

cheers,
bern.

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 08:12, Angus Wallace wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Is there any knowledge about wether new ipods (10, 15 and 30gb models) 
> are hardware compatable with the older ones? ie. does this version of 
> linux have a problem with the new ones (more so than the old, as 
> excellent as it sounds  ;-)?
> 
> Cheers,
> -Angus Wallace
> 
> 
> 
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[Ipodlinux-devel] new ipods

[Angus W. <wal...@in...>]

Dear all,

Is there any knowledge about wether new ipods (10, 15 and 30gb models) 
are hardware compatable with the older ones? ie. does this version of 
linux have a problem with the new ones (more so than the old, as 
excellent as it sounds  ;-)?

Cheers,
-Angus Wallace

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Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] linux on new (curvy, all-touch) ipod hardware

[William R S. <wi...@so...>]

Hmmm, a few additional notes:

The new ipod doesn't reboot into Disk Mode each time it's connected to a
computer, it handles disk mode directly from the standard runtime code
(although forcing Disk Mode still works). I used this mode to update the code
on the first partition. As soon as I rmmod sbp2, it reboots and Linux starts
running. Linux then fails to mount a root filesystem on /dev/hda2 (device
03:02) and panics. I have the "linux" directory in the root of the second
partition. I unzipped it on the filesystem in msdos mode, examining the
"linux" directory in umsdos mode gives what looks like a sensible root   
filesytem.

However, rebooting the ipod from this panicked linux just gets stuck at the
Apple logo. It appears that the new firmware does some hardware initialisation
that the Linux kernel doesn't know to do -- a soft-reset works, but a
hard-reset doesn't. The kernel messages zip past too fast for me to read them,
but it's possible that it's not finding the ATA controller (or disk itself?)
and thus the failure to mount the root filesystem.

However, it looks like the system should be bootable with only minor
modifications.

Will


On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 02:13:14PM +0100, William R Sowerbutts wrote:
>He he he ;-)
>
>Yep, it boots the Linux binary I downloaded from the web site! The display
>driver works fine. I got a panic when it failed to find a root image. I'll
>have a go at getting the FireWire connection up and running in a bit.
>
>I recovered back to the original firmware without any problems, the iPod
>doesn't seem to have suffered from its brief brush with Linux.
>
>I suspect Apple have exposed a bi-directional serial port somewhere on that
>mother dock connector (or maybe that's what the extra pin on the remote
>connector is for?). Now that we can telnet in using IP over firewire, though,
>this doesn't seem to be so necessary.
>
>Out of interest, how is the second processor exposed to userspace? Is it the
>same as traditional SMP linux? What MMU features are missing that are required
>for running "normal" Linux on this hardware?
>
>Thanks all,
>
>Will
>
>
>On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 02:26:34PM +0200, Bernard Leach wrote:
>>
>>Hi William,
>>
>>Sofar I've not heard of anyone trying to start Linux on the iPod v3
>>hardware however I have taken a look at the firmware and think it should
>>boot at least.  I'm not sure about all the device drivers as the
>>introduction of the recording etc facilities have probably moved some of
>>the GPIO connections around.
>>
>>The patch_fw should be able to work with a 2.0 firmware image without
>>problems (infact it looks like the bootloader has hardly changed between
>>1.21 and 1.30).
>>
>>>From the recovery perspective it is important that the forced diskmode
>>still works and it appears that that is the case so you are pretty safe.
>>
>>One problem with Vorbis at the moment is that the decoding still has
>>terrible performance.  I haven't done any work on making it better
>>though so I'm sure there are plenty of possibilites.
>>
>>Anyhow let us know how it goes!
>>
>>cheers,
>>bern.
>>
>>On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 12:58, William R Sowerbutts wrote:
>>> hi all
>>> 
>>> i have a new 15G ipod. it's running the 2.0 firmware. there are no decent AAC
>>> encoders for linux so i've converted a chunk of my music collection from FLAC
>>> to MP3 format, but i'd really rather be using Vorbis to take advantage of the
>>> superior compression ratio.
>>> 
>>> has anyone tried forcing patch_fw to patch the firmware and then booting it
>>> up?
>>> 
>>> you can boot this ipod into "disk-mode", so i suspect it's possible to restore
>>> the original firmware if it all takes on the aspect of a pear...
>>> 
>>> i can provide a copy of the 2.0 firmware if anyone wants to take a look.
>>> 
>>> thanks!
>>> 
>>> will
>>> 
>>> _________________________________________________________________________
>>> William R Sowerbutts                                  wi...@so...
>>> Coder / Guru / Nrrrd                                http://sowerbutts.com
>>>          main(){char*s=">#=0> ^#X@#@^7=",c=0,m;for(;c<15;c++)for
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Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] linux on new (curvy, all-touch) ipod hardware

[William R S. <wi...@so...>]

He he he ;-)

Yep, it boots the Linux binary I downloaded from the web site! The display
driver works fine. I got a panic when it failed to find a root image. I'll
have a go at getting the FireWire connection up and running in a bit.

I recovered back to the original firmware without any problems, the iPod
doesn't seem to have suffered from its brief brush with Linux.

I suspect Apple have exposed a bi-directional serial port somewhere on that
mother dock connector (or maybe that's what the extra pin on the remote
connector is for?). Now that we can telnet in using IP over firewire, though,
this doesn't seem to be so necessary.

Out of interest, how is the second processor exposed to userspace? Is it the
same as traditional SMP linux? What MMU features are missing that are required
for running "normal" Linux on this hardware?

Thanks all,

Will


On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 02:26:34PM +0200, Bernard Leach wrote:
>
>Hi William,
>
>Sofar I've not heard of anyone trying to start Linux on the iPod v3
>hardware however I have taken a look at the firmware and think it should
>boot at least.  I'm not sure about all the device drivers as the
>introduction of the recording etc facilities have probably moved some of
>the GPIO connections around.
>
>The patch_fw should be able to work with a 2.0 firmware image without
>problems (infact it looks like the bootloader has hardly changed between
>1.21 and 1.30).
>
>>From the recovery perspective it is important that the forced diskmode
>still works and it appears that that is the case so you are pretty safe.
>
>One problem with Vorbis at the moment is that the decoding still has
>terrible performance.  I haven't done any work on making it better
>though so I'm sure there are plenty of possibilites.
>
>Anyhow let us know how it goes!
>
>cheers,
>bern.
>
>On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 12:58, William R Sowerbutts wrote:
>> hi all
>> 
>> i have a new 15G ipod. it's running the 2.0 firmware. there are no decent AAC
>> encoders for linux so i've converted a chunk of my music collection from FLAC
>> to MP3 format, but i'd really rather be using Vorbis to take advantage of the
>> superior compression ratio.
>> 
>> has anyone tried forcing patch_fw to patch the firmware and then booting it
>> up?
>> 
>> you can boot this ipod into "disk-mode", so i suspect it's possible to restore
>> the original firmware if it all takes on the aspect of a pear...
>> 
>> i can provide a copy of the 2.0 firmware if anyone wants to take a look.
>> 
>> thanks!
>> 
>> will
>> 
>> _________________________________________________________________________
>> William R Sowerbutts                                  wi...@so...
>> Coder / Guru / Nrrrd                                http://sowerbutts.com
>>          main(){char*s=">#=0> ^#X@#@^7=",c=0,m;for(;c<15;c++)for
>>          (m=-1;m<7;putchar(m++/6&c%3/2?10:s[c]-31&1<<m?42:32));}  
>> 
>> 
>> 
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         (m=-1;m<7;putchar(m++/6&c%3/2?10:s[c]-31&1<<m?42:32));}  

Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] linux on new (curvy, all-touch) ipod hardware

[Bernard L. <le...@bo...>]

Hi William,

Sofar I've not heard of anyone trying to start Linux on the iPod v3
hardware however I have taken a look at the firmware and think it should
boot at least.  I'm not sure about all the device drivers as the
introduction of the recording etc facilities have probably moved some of
the GPIO connections around.

The patch_fw should be able to work with a 2.0 firmware image without
problems (infact it looks like the bootloader has hardly changed between
1.21 and 1.30).

>From the recovery perspective it is important that the forced diskmode
still works and it appears that that is the case so you are pretty safe.

One problem with Vorbis at the moment is that the decoding still has
terrible performance.  I haven't done any work on making it better
though so I'm sure there are plenty of possibilites.

Anyhow let us know how it goes!

cheers,
bern.

On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 12:58, William R Sowerbutts wrote:
> hi all
> 
> i have a new 15G ipod. it's running the 2.0 firmware. there are no decent AAC
> encoders for linux so i've converted a chunk of my music collection from FLAC
> to MP3 format, but i'd really rather be using Vorbis to take advantage of the
> superior compression ratio.
> 
> has anyone tried forcing patch_fw to patch the firmware and then booting it
> up?
> 
> you can boot this ipod into "disk-mode", so i suspect it's possible to restore
> the original firmware if it all takes on the aspect of a pear...
> 
> i can provide a copy of the 2.0 firmware if anyone wants to take a look.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> will
> 
> _________________________________________________________________________
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[Ipodlinux-devel] linux on new (curvy, all-touch) ipod hardware

[William R S. <wi...@so...>]

hi all

i have a new 15G ipod. it's running the 2.0 firmware. there are no decent AAC
encoders for linux so i've converted a chunk of my music collection from FLAC
to MP3 format, but i'd really rather be using Vorbis to take advantage of the
superior compression ratio.

has anyone tried forcing patch_fw to patch the firmware and then booting it
up?

you can boot this ipod into "disk-mode", so i suspect it's possible to restore
the original firmware if it all takes on the aspect of a pear...

i can provide a copy of the 2.0 firmware if anyone wants to take a look.

thanks!

will

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[Ipodlinux-devel] HFS+ experiments....

[Roberto De I. <ro...@ro...>]

Ok,after a lot of try and reboot i have compiled the HFS+ support into

the kernel:


1) apply the patch to the vanilla kernel tree (get it at
http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/)

2) apply the uclinux and ipod patch


3) add to the .config this lines:

CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"


change the second one with your preferred NLS
(it looks like that this hfs+ implementation doesn't work without Native
Language Support)


4) Change the EXTRA_CFLAGS variable in fs/hfsplus/Makefile
with:

EXTRA_CFLAGS= -O2

in this way gcc can perform inlining....


Now it should compile...

I have not tested it a lot , hope it can be useful..



-- 
Roberto De Ioris
(http://robbo.it)

[Ipodlinux-devel] Fw: HFS+ driver (from linux-hfsplus-devel mailing list)

[Roberto De I. <ro...@ro...>]

Hi all,
this could be very interesting for all mac-ipod users (as me).....




Begin forwarded message:

Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:06:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zi...@li...>
To: lin...@li...
Cc: lin...@vg..., <lin...@vg...>
Subject: [Linux-hfsplus-devel] [ANNOUNCE] HFS+ driver


Hi,

I'm proud to announce a complete new version of the HFS+ fs driver. This
work was made possible by Ardis Technologies (www.ardistech.com). It's 
based on the driver by Brad Boyer
(http://sf.net/projects/linux-hfsplus).

The new driver now supports full read and write access. Perfomance has 
improved a lot, the btrees are kept in the page cache with a hash on top
of this to speed up the access to the btree nodes.
I also added support for hard links and the resource fork is accessible 
via <file>/rsrc.

This is a beta release. I tested this a lot, so I consider it quite safe
to use, but I can't give any guarantees at this time of course. There is
also still a bit to do (e.g. the block allocator needs a bit more work).

The driver can be downloaded from http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/ .
The README describes how to build the driver.

If something should go wrong, I also have patch for Apple's diskdev_cmds
(available from http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.2.5/), 
which ports newfs_hfs and fsck_hfs to Linux and fixes the endian
problems. The patch is at
http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/diskdev_cmds.diff.gz . After applying
the patch the tools can be built with 'make -f Makefile.lnx'.

bye, Roman




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[Ipodlinux-devel] re: Ideas for linux-on-ipod

[Peter K. <pe...@lu...>]

the iPod, both the old and the new have a
160-by-128-pixel resolution

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[Ipodlinux-devel] Ideas for linux-on-ipod

[Stathis S. <im...@sa...>]

Hello,

First I'd like to congratulate for your efforts to get linux on ipod. I
still haven't tried it, but I now have a reason to do it: Apple has
released the new iPod, which apart from having the buttons in completely
the wrong place, features some significant improvements of the interface
(http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61905). Those
improvements will probably not be available to the old iPods, so I think
it's up to us to improve things for ourselves. I know that linux-on-iPod
is not mature enough yet, but the list of features of the new iPod can
provide you with some nice ideas - such as playlist creation on iPod,
and the display of notes.

As someone with experience in graphics (see www.satspeed.gr/~im/), I
would like to help with the interface as well. Can you tell me what the
resolution of the iPod screen is?

Thanks,

Stathis

Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] dead ipod?

[Steven L. <sl...@uc...>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:09:30PM -0500, "Chandan Kudige [home]" <ch...@to...> said
> Anyway, I too later saw that it was dead and when I took it to the Best
> Buy for exchange they insisted that they try charging it again.
> Miraculously it did revive ! Dunno if this is similiar to your case or
> not. But no harm in trying the warranty in anycase if it doesnt come up
> at all.

well, i'll be.  i swear i did nothing different this time -- just plugged in
the ipod, insmoded ohci1394.o, and everything is dandy.  this is exactly
what i did before, but this time i got a little apple, and now a check mark.
how strange.  thanks for everyone's help!

Steven

Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] dead ipod?

[Mark G. <mgu...@ma...>]

On April 3, 2003 03:07 am, Bernard Leach wrote:
> When you say its dead - I take it there is nothing on trying to reset
> it?  No HDD noise, no LCD changes?  If thats the case I would have to
> guess that your battery is completely dead.

I saw this symptom on mine long before I ran linux on it.  Opening and doing a 
full PMU reset might fix it up as well, there's links all over on how to do 
it

Gerk

Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] dead ipod?

[Bernard L. <le...@bo...>]

Hi Steven,

If I understand correctly you were charging in the disk-mode?  If that
is the case it seems very unlikely that anything that went before had
anything to do with the current state.

What version of the firmware are you running?  Did the image you dd'ed
back match the version you had flashed in?  E.g. the last firmware
update you did with the iPod firmware updater?  Do you have another iPod
charger you could test it with?  Or another powered firmware port?

When you say its dead - I take it there is nothing on trying to reset
it?  No HDD noise, no LCD changes?  If thats the case I would have to
guess that your battery is completely dead.

Fingers crossed!

cheers,
bern.

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 01:22, Steven Lucy wrote:
> hello everybody,
> 
> i've run into some serious trouble here, and i'm wondering if anyone can
> help.  it appears that the third requirement on the build page, "No
> reservations about the possibility of ruining your iPod. This would likely
> invalidate your warranty as well. You have been warned!" is not joking.  my
> ipod is now, effectively, a very shiny brick.
> 
> symptoms:  that of a brick, except shiny.  won't turn on, won't respond to
> button pushes, firewire attaches, holding play/menu down, or anything else.
> i have not busted it open to try unplugging/replugging battery, i'm hoping
> someone here can suggest something a little less dangerous first.
> 
> what i can reconstruct:  i wasn't really paying much attention (as i didn't
> expect this to happen), but as far as i can here is what steps preceded this
> lock-up:  i booted the ipod into linux and forgot about it.  this caused the
> battery to run down.  no problem -- hooked it up via firewire, forced reboot
> with play/menu and then forced fw with ff/rew.  dded in apple's firmware
> image, which, due to my flaky firewire hardware, crashed my computer.
> rebooted my computer, tried dding it again, this time it worked.  rebooted
> ipod into playing mode (by unplugging firewire).  i didn't actually play any
> songs, but it booted into the menuing system just fine.  plugged fw back in,
> and it rebooted into charging mode (with the check mark).  i now left it
> alone for two days, and then when i went to unplug it to take on my trip it
> was absolutely dead.  it's been this way for a week, and i'm still very
> puzzled.  any help about reviving it would be appreciated.
> 
> thanks, and may this never happen to you,
> 
> Steven
> 
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Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] dead ipod?

[Chandan K. [home] <ch...@to...>]

Strange, because I ran into a very similiar problem, but this was before
I started mucking around with the Linux. I think I left the ipod without
using for a while. As far as I remember I had connected it up for
charging but I am not positively sure about this.

Anyway, I too later saw that it was dead and when I took it to the Best
Buy for exchange they insisted that they try charging it again.
Miraculously it did revive ! Dunno if this is similiar to your case or
not. But no harm in trying the warranty in anycase if it doesnt come up
at all.

This also raises a question which I think has been mentioned elsewhere.
Does anyone know whats the best way of keeping the ipod charged ? Is it
okay to leave it on charge all the time or is it better to let it run
down halfway or full before recharging ? Does anyone have an
authoritative answer to this ?

Good luck,
Chandan


On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 18:22, Steven Lucy wrote:
> hello everybody,
> 
> i've run into some serious trouble here, and i'm wondering if anyone can
> help.  it appears that the third requirement on the build page, "No
> reservations about the possibility of ruining your iPod. This would likely
> invalidate your warranty as well. You have been warned!" is not joking.  my
> ipod is now, effectively, a very shiny brick.
> 
> symptoms:  that of a brick, except shiny.  won't turn on, won't respond to
> button pushes, firewire attaches, holding play/menu down, or anything else.
> i have not busted it open to try unplugging/replugging battery, i'm hoping
> someone here can suggest something a little less dangerous first.
> 
> what i can reconstruct:  i wasn't really paying much attention (as i didn't
> expect this to happen), but as far as i can here is what steps preceded this
> lock-up:  i booted the ipod into linux and forgot about it.  this caused the
> battery to run down.  no problem -- hooked it up via firewire, forced reboot
> with play/menu and then forced fw with ff/rew.  dded in apple's firmware
> image, which, due to my flaky firewire hardware, crashed my computer.
> rebooted my computer, tried dding it again, this time it worked.  rebooted
> ipod into playing mode (by unplugging firewire).  i didn't actually play any
> songs, but it booted into the menuing system just fine.  plugged fw back in,
> and it rebooted into charging mode (with the check mark).  i now left it
> alone for two days, and then when i went to unplug it to take on my trip it
> was absolutely dead.  it's been this way for a week, and i'm still very
> puzzled.  any help about reviving it would be appreciated.
> 
> thanks, and may this never happen to you,
> 
> Steven
> 
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Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] dead ipod?

[Chandan K. [home] <ch...@to...>]

Strange, because I ran into a very similiar problem, but this was before
I started mucking around with the Linux. I think I left the ipod without
using for a while. As far as I remember I had connected it up for
charging but I am not positively sure about this.

Anyway, I too later saw that it was dead and when I took it to the Best
Buy for exchange they insisted that they try charging it again.
Miraculously it did revive ! Dunno if this is similiar to your case or
not. But no harm in trying the warranty in anycase if it doesnt come up
at all.

This also raises a question which I think has been mentioned elsewhere.
Does anyone know whats the best way of keeping the ipod charged ? Is it
okay to leave it on charge all the time or is it better to let it run
down halfway or full before recharging ? Does anyone have an
authoritative answer to this ?

Good luck,
Chandan


On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 18:22, Steven Lucy wrote:
> hello everybody,
> 
> i've run into some serious trouble here, and i'm wondering if anyone can
> help.  it appears that the third requirement on the build page, "No
> reservations about the possibility of ruining your iPod. This would likely
> invalidate your warranty as well. You have been warned!" is not joking.  my
> ipod is now, effectively, a very shiny brick.
> 
> symptoms:  that of a brick, except shiny.  won't turn on, won't respond to
> button pushes, firewire attaches, holding play/menu down, or anything else.
> i have not busted it open to try unplugging/replugging battery, i'm hoping
> someone here can suggest something a little less dangerous first.
> 
> what i can reconstruct:  i wasn't really paying much attention (as i didn't
> expect this to happen), but as far as i can here is what steps preceded this
> lock-up:  i booted the ipod into linux and forgot about it.  this caused the
> battery to run down.  no problem -- hooked it up via firewire, forced reboot
> with play/menu and then forced fw with ff/rew.  dded in apple's firmware
> image, which, due to my flaky firewire hardware, crashed my computer.
> rebooted my computer, tried dding it again, this time it worked.  rebooted
> ipod into playing mode (by unplugging firewire).  i didn't actually play any
> songs, but it booted into the menuing system just fine.  plugged fw back in,
> and it rebooted into charging mode (with the check mark).  i now left it
> alone for two days, and then when i went to unplug it to take on my trip it
> was absolutely dead.  it's been this way for a week, and i'm still very
> puzzled.  any help about reviving it would be appreciated.
> 
> thanks, and may this never happen to you,
> 
> Steven
> 
> 
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