iPod Classic OS Question

[paulcall]

Hello Everyone,

I currently have a 80gb iPod Classic which I have had for a while now and I have always disliked the new split screen OS that Apple released for it's Classic iPods. The screen is not that big to begin with so splitting it in half does not make sense to me. Also, I don't know about everyone else but who has pictures for all their songs? So I am left with the generic picture taking up half my screen. On top of that pictures make the iPod run slow, especially in the split screen main menu.

In looking around it appears that most users that own 5G iPod Videos are looking to get the Classic OS yet I am trying to do the opposite.

I was wondering if anyone knows if there is any way to get the old 5G iPod Video OS onto my iPod Classic? Or just to be able to get rid of the generic split screen picture icon in the Classic OS?

Before everyone responds, I am fully aware after doing research in the past that the iPod Classic has an unbreakable encryption.

I am not looking to hack it, I am just wondering if anyone knows if Apple ever released the option to go back to their old firmware from the iPod Video?

I did try going back to the 5G Video, but the battery life is terrible, the Classic was designed to be so much more efficient with battery life.

Funny when you think about it that you hear stories of people able to hack into government computer systems yet a company like Apple would put an unbreakable encryption into a device like an mp3 player.

If anyone has any info that could help me, it will be greatly appreciated.

 

[kamikazekyle]

You could probably dig up old firmwares for the Classic line, but none that would be a port from 5G > 5.5/6G. Even if there was somehow a method of injecting a 5 series firmware into a 6th gen line, it wouldn't even have a remote chance of working due to massively different architectures. Seeing as how hard drive based players are pretty niche nowadays and was already waning during the 6th gen's release, there's not really much in the way of effort being put into modifying the firmware.

Anywho, sorry that I can't offer much in the way of help. Most of the projects that used to make aftermarket firmware for Apple's non-touch players have kinda died out or refocused, as far as I'm aware. You might be able to still find some hi-cap batteries for your 5th gen which might bump up the runtime a bit. Heck, just a new battery period will be night and day difference if you have a launch 5th gen.

 

[paulcall]

Thank you very much for your response

Yeah I don't think any of the older firmwares were fullscreen, but I am not totally sure, I will do some searching just to be sure.
Unfortunately I put the best battery I could find in the 5G and it still doesn't even come close to what the classic is capable of.

The way the iPod evolved at the end was such bad timing. If only there could have been a generation model between the video and the classic where it kept its old OS yet received the updated efficiency. But in came the dawn of apps, and with those apps came $$$$ and Apple has never looked back, ignoring the device that bought their name to the masses.

Well anyways, if anyone has any other ideas I still haven't given up hope, well I have given up about 99% of my hope on the matter, but I still have 1%.

 

[Oyeve]

Yeah, i havent updated my 160gb classic in 2 years. Love the old screen.