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I can no longer make it fail to boot, but I can give you a boot log with successful DC detection and without. The strange thing is even when Hijack thinks it's in AC mode, the boot log reads DC. I am wondering why the disconnect?


That's simple: When it's on DC and Hijack thinks it's on AC, this happens because the home-dock loopback test succeeds, and the player has Hijack set to automatically pretend it's on AC whenever a dock is detected.

When it fails, it's probably the noisy tuner serial port that causes the failure (try with Hijack v467 to find out for sure), and thus the home-dock loopback test also fails.

Is the home-dock's loopback wire loose in the docking connector? If so, then that could explain all of this trouble..

Cheers