Old Snook instal the new version for ipod

Once the iPod drive appears, drag and drop the.

Rockbox should start and enter USB mode, wait for the iPod to appear on your computer.

Select Rockbox and that will start the fallback Rockbox image on EmCore.

EmCore should now boot up on the iPod and finish installing itself.

Drag and drop the installer-ipodclassic.ubi file in to the UMSboot drive.

In the folder ClassicRockbox, double click bootstrap_ipodclassic_itunes.exe.

Wait a moment for the computer to install the iPod device recovery driver.

Hold down Menu + Select, for around 5 to 10 seconds – keep holding until it stops resetting and the iPod looks like it has died – screen should be blank and no backlight.

Then right click on these processes and select kill process tree :- iPodService.exe, iTunesHelper.exe, AppleMovileDeviceService.exe. In task manager goto the Processes tab and click on show processes from all users.

If you have iTunes installed, hit ctrl + alt + del and start task manager.

Extract the archive to a convenient place, so you should have a folder called ClassicRockbox.

Download the latest development build files here :- ClassicRockbox.

You read the disclaimer and warning above?!?!?!? No crying if it goes wrong.

One great side effect of installing EmCore / Rockbox, is it removes the silly 128Gb LBA28 limits of the Apple OS for 6g (80Gb,160Gb,120Gb) owners.īe warned you are making low level changes to your iPod – so read this warning and disclaimer, understand the risks before proceedings :. You can get more info about emCore and Rockbox at these links. First part we replace the Apple OS with EmCore and once that is running we install Rockbox. We have a development version which is working great on my iFlash boards – this includes CF, SD and mSata cards. Thanks to some ongoing work by one of the EmCore developers (Thank you TheSeven!!). Read here -> iPod 6g Classic Rockbox Installation There is a new version of this guide, updated to show the new bootloader and Rockbox utility method of installing.

Old Snook instal the new version for ipod