[Novalug] My iPod hates me

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sat Mar 22 09:09:28 EDT 2008


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Google my man!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=498622

http://www.google.com/search?q=ipod+linux+charge+usb

There has always been an issue charging USB devices in my experience.
There are some tools for BlackBerry's and that is what is used w/ mods
in the first post. the second (google search results) has lots of links
and ideas.

One person said if gthumb is running, the usb port charges!

Anyway, enjoy working on this today ;D

Nick Danger wrote:
> For Xmas I got the wife a new iPod mini and she handed over her old 3G
> iPod with a bad battery. I finally got around to replacing the battery
> (easy!) and have loaded RockBox, the open source portable music player
> os. Its pretty nice, gives lots of features and I was going to bring it
> to FOSE.
> 
> The problem is that it will not charge. I plug it into my USB port and I
> can mount the drive in either old Apple iPod OS or RockBox (Ubuntu Gutsy
> on the laptop), but it wont charge the battery. So I got an adapter for
> the Firewire (my laptop has the tiny plug, the ipod cable is a big one)
> and it still wont charge. It nicely charges in my wifes macbook, Im sure
> just to annoy me.
> 
> I'm going to drag it to work on Monday and see what it does in the PCs
> there (desktop PCs and not laptops? maybe that makes a difference?)
> 
> But if anyone has some advice, Im all ears..


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