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Elias_Maluco:
Hi all. First of all, Rockbox kicks ass and I just love it. I bought this iPod (I dint want one, but it was a very good deal and my Archos is dead, so I decided to pick it) last week and have been using Rockbox, and its just almost perfect for my needs (specially: no need for iTunes).

That said, Im kind scared about the battery consumption. This is the first day I really used the iPod a lot: got to work at 10 AM, now is 18, been listening to music almost all day long, and the battery, according to the indicator, is close to over.

Is that normal? Is there anything I can do to make it last more? Any guide, any tips? Also, I found this 'Battery Capacity' on the setting menu (inside 'System'), and its set to '400mAh'. Is that correct? Changing this does what, exactlly?

Anyway, thank you a lot (the devs) for this wonderfull piece of software and thank you a lot (forum users) for any help/advice you can give me.

EDIT: Err, sorry about posting in the wrong forum. Also, I forgot specify my iPod version: is an iPod Video, 30 gb, (5.5G).

LambdaCalculus:
With many of the recent changes to Rockbox, battery life on the iPod video averages about 10-12 hours, depending on your settings and age of battery, among other factors. My iPod video gets about 11 hours of battery life with Rockbox, and the battery is over a year old (16 months, to be exact).

It sounds like your battery may be running down; did you happen to buy your iPod used?

Elias_Maluco:
No, its a new one (unless is a refurb and I dont know about it).

Zoness:
My Nano 4GB seems like it gets about that much battery life and it's two years old, I'm sure this goes without saying I suppose you could turn down the backlight's operation time so that's not running so often.

In case you don't know:
Settings -> Display -> LCD Settings ... In there are a ton of options to set relating to the backlight which is a battery killer for sure. You may also want to turn down the brightness of it as well. Since I have a Nano I don't have an HDD so I don't know of settings related to that. Hope I helped.

Buschel:
The battery life depends on several factors. E.g. you should avoid additional audioprocessing like EQ, crossfeed or crossfading. The power consumption and battery life also is connected to the audio format you are listening to: MP3/AAC gives less battery life than MPC/FLAC. Another "trick" -- especially for the 5G -- is to leave the WPS menu and keep the player in the Main menu while playback.

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