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Battery consumption?

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Bojangles:
Does Rockbox use up more battery power than the standard Apple firmware? I recently had to replace my battery after only having my 30gb Ipod video for 5 months. Rockbox was installed and used most of the time.  Just curious.

nls:
Yes, Rockbox uses more power than the original firmware on ipods.

Llorean:
It'll still get as many charge/discharge cycles, it just lasts less time per charge right now. It's not harmful, it just uses up the power more quickly.

Bojangles:
So would it be better to charge on Apple's firmware only or does that not make a difference overall?

Chronon:
You'll charge up faster if you do it through the Apple firmware as it uses up less juice.  I know there have been instances with my iPod where I couldn't actually charge up via Rockbox because the iPod was draining faster than the charger could replenish it.  

I'm not sure what the current status is since I dropped my iPod a couple of months ago and an inductor popped off the circuit board.   :'(

But I should be receiving a gigabeat F40 any day and I'll soon be Rockboxing again!

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