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Is anyone else getting more battery life with the latest versions of Rockbox?

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cocopugg:
I just upgraded to the latest version two nights ago (my previous version was from December), and have noticed my battery life seems better with the new version than with the previous version I had installed. I don't know how to interpet this. 1. The previous version may have been incorrectly reading the battery usage info, or 2. This newest version on Rockbox has been optimized for peak performance with minimal battery usage. Anyone else getting more mileage with the latest version of Rockbox? BTW I am using a Sansa 280E.

AlexP:
Yes, in mid February (http://svn.rockbox.org/viewvc.cgi?view=rev;revision=16259) some battery saving work went in to SVN greatly improving battery life on portalplayer based targets, which includes the e200.

I did a test of runtime between rockbox and the OF a little while ago (same album on repeat etc.) and got 14:08 in the OF and 16:28 in rockbox!  See www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaRuntime.

cocopugg:
Thanks for the quick reply BigBambi. You guys (The Rockbox team) continue to amaze me...Keep up the great work!

AlexP:
No problems, thanks (on behalf of those more talented than me) for the kind words.

zajacattack:
Are the tests on that wiki page conclusive enough to say that rockbox now power manages better than the OF?

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