iVolt

Name: iVolt
Rating: 2.3333 (5 reviews)

2.0

05 January 2005

Enables iPod onscreen voltage meter.

Overview

iVolt is a simple application for enabling your iPod's built-in voltage meter.

What's new in iVolt

Version 2.0:

Complete Rewrite
Automatic Disk Detection
Improved Interface
Documentaton

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4 iVolt Reviews

It works, and it doesn't crash. However, it's rather minimal, and it cannot automatically detect an iPod. You have to type its volume name. Something weird: it sucessfully performed the change on my hard drive, when I typed in its volume name.

Version 1.2

No need for this program, you can do the same thing from the terminal. Enable voltage meter: touch /Volumes/(the name of the iPod)/iPod_Control/Device/_show_voltage Enable battery display: rm /Volumes/(the name of the iPod)/iPod_Control/Device/_show_voltage Make sure you replace "(the name of the iPod)" with the name of your iPod. Be sure to add a backslash before spaces and other special characters. For example, if the name of your iPod is "My Sweet iPod" then you'll need to type "My\ Sweet\ iPod". Similarly, "Bob's Music Thingamajig" would be "Bob\'s\ Music\ Thingamajig". If yours is named just "iPod" like mine is, then there's no special rules.

Version 2.0

2 answer(s)

Anonymous

05 January 2005

Thanks to Josh and PseudoTasiki both. Nice.

Version 2.0

Anonymous

05 January 2005

Nice tip! But let's face it, some people out there have Terminal-phobia so this is where this program comes in handy. Your tip works though so that's cool.

Version 2.0

Display voltage infomation with non-sense. God knows what "361" means!

Version 1.2

3 answer(s)

Anonymous

27 November 2004

no good

Version 1.2

Anonymous

05 January 2005

Judging by the documentation, the iPod, when switched to a numeric battery display, shows centivolts. So, when your iPod shows "361", it means the battery is charged to 361cV. If you don't know what a centivolt is or even what a Volt is, then perhaps you shouldn't have asked to download iVolt, don't you think? Much less complain about it when you don't understand it and can't be bothered to work it out!

Version 2.0

Anonymous

25 January 2005

rich, lol

Version 2.0

HUH? Whats this thing supposed to do? One button (Voltage) does nothing, the other (Battery) shoots off an error.

Version 1.2