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Archos 504 or a Rockbox'd 80gb video Ipod?
patach:
Really? Is it that bad? Does Rockbox have certain options that have it suck out the life of an ipod, or is simply running Rockbox in the first place the problem?
GodEater:
Although this topic has been done to death all over the forums, I'll indulge you and answer it AGAIN here ;)
The problem is the hardware in the ipod is completely undocumented. Everything rockbox and ipodlinux have managed to get working on it is via complete guesswork - but there's a lot we still don't know. And one of the things we don't know is how to shut down bits of the ipod whcih aren't being used. People have measured voltage usage on the ipod when it's running both the Apple firmware and when running rockbox, and there are significant differences. The trouble is we don't know how to change that.
|2eM!x:
I generally found that my ipod battery life was much less than 9 hours, less than 5 in fact. Just wanted to give you a heads up.
Febs:
--- Quote from: |2eM!x on July 18, 2007, 03:12:27 PM ---I generally found that my ipod battery life was much less than 9 hours, less than 5 in fact. Just wanted to give you a heads up.
--- End quote ---
Don't you think it would be helpful to say which iPod you have?
Llorean:
And what the retail firmware gets under identical circumstances.
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