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Save iPod battery life by turning off in Apple OS?

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countach:

--- Quote from: desertmusic on September 24, 2007, 05:03:12 PM ---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.

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I confirm that shutting down in rockbox mode and leaving it alone for some days, drains all the battery. The three lasts weekends I left the iPod untouched on the desk and the monday morning was totally drained.
The keypad-off switch was enabled, so there was no incidental power-on, and if for any reason it powered by itself, it didn't start en Apple Mode, despite being activate that switch.
So I think this is clearly some kind of bug.

Sometimes I find the device playing by itself. Even if I set the start-up mode to 'Main Menu'. In that case, if I switch it on manually (pressing the MENU key), it goes to the Main Menu, that's ok. But when starting by 'itself', it starts playing last song, so there it is the drain cause.

For the moment, the only way to secure the battery in a long-time non-using is entering in iPod mode before and then shutdown from there.

Llorean:
If it starts up playing, it sounds like you've got an alarm set, or there's a bug with the alarm... Which SVN revision was the last one you experienced this problem with?

countach:
I use the last one DevilG Build, evilg-5G-64-20070914.zip file.

About the alarm, the Screen Displays:

Alarm Time: 23:15

SELECT=Set MENU=Cancel

I never set up the alarm, and pressing MENU an 'Alarm Disabled' TEXT appears, but entering again, it seems that the Alarm is still enabled, as the screen remains with the main data.

There is a video I made right now:
http://download.yousendit.com/F9533D732F08914A

Notice the fourth icon in the upper line: ¿Is is the alarm-on indicator or the random playlist setting?

But I can assure that no alarm was set up ever.

Llorean:
That is an UNSUPPORTED BUILD. Please do not post in the official forums about unofficial builds, even if your problem is similar. This is in the posting guidelines.

countach:
Sorry for that, I know. I'll install the last official build and wachout if it happen too, but I pretty sure that will do...

About that unsupported build... "please please please... (smilies in knees) " do include the cover art thingy in the official builds !!  :D
I know you always says "No  >:( " every time is asked... I suppose there have to be some great reason for that big nono...

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