Rockbox General > Rockbox General Discussion

Save iPod battery life by turning off in Apple OS?

(1/3) > >>

desertmusic:
Hi,

    I have an ipod 5.5g 80g with rockbox installed and have been loving it.  I've followed the forum discussions on battery life for the ipods and read through the rockbox manual.  I've noticed battery drain between turning off the ipod in rockbox and restarting rockbox.  I know this has been covered elsewhere.  However, I didn't see any mention of my specific question, so I thought I'd ask.

   Suppose I reboot into the Apple OS and shut down from there?  Can I assume that this would eliminate battery drain during off time?   Other than whatever normal drain the original Apple OS causes?  I'm just wondering if I can avoid the sometimes dramatic battery drainage I seem to encounter every so often between turning off and on inside Rockbox.

Thanks,
John.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: desertmusic on September 24, 2007, 05:03:12 PM ---Suppose I reboot into the Apple OS and shut down from there?  Can I assume that this would eliminate battery drain during off time?
--- End quote ---
No. When Rockbox shuts down the player it is powered off. AppleOS puts it into a mode known as "deep sleep". In that mode the player is still running but at a very low clock speed, thus requiring still power. And when it's turned of its ... off ;)

riksweeney:

--- Quote from: bluebrother on September 24, 2007, 05:25:28 PM ---No. When Rockbox shuts down the player it is powered off. AppleOS puts it into a mode known as "deep sleep". In that mode the player is still running but at a very low clock speed, thus requiring still power. And when it's turned of its ... off ;)

--- End quote ---

My God, Apple do all kinds of crazy things don't they?! Shouldn't off mean off?

Anyway, hasn't the Rockbox battery life on the iPod been solved (or significantly improved), or doesn't it apply to this model?

GodEater:
The battery life fixes applied only to 1st, 2nd and 3rd gen ipods.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: riksweeney on September 25, 2007, 06:06:04 AM ---My God, Apple do all kinds of crazy things don't they?! Shouldn't off mean off?
--- End quote ---
Well, that heavily depends on what you want -- waking up from a sleep mode is *much* faster than a complete restart, similar to booting a laptop vs. waking up from suspend to RAM / disk. So regarding the user experience this makes quite sense.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page