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ShiningWolf:
Will do so.

I am first going to run a full battery check. What is strange is that I while running the podcast to check the battery life, the harddisk was spinning like crazy - you could hear it. Then it suddenly stopped but the podcast is still playing (1 hour later).  There was some background activity on the disk for a long time which could be chewing battery.

pondlife:
At startup, Rockbox will initially background scan if you have either dircache or database auto-update enabled.  This can take a minute or 2 if you have a lot of files and does munch battery.

I find it best to avoid shutting down and restarting too much - I had an almost dead battery on my H300 for quite a while and believe that I managed to get longer battery life by *increasing* the idle poweroff from 10 mins to 60 mins, purely because it reduced the number of startups I had to go through.

Once the disk has shut down, and the backlight has gone off, Rockbox doesn't use seem to use much power (assuming your music format and use of EQ etc. doesn't require boosting).

This is all unscientific, empirical, feelings I have based on weeks of trying to squeeze a bit of runtime from an end-of-life battery, so YMMV etc. etc.

pondlife

ShiningWolf:
The issue was very simply that the Rockbox did an database update at startup. As I have lots of files it took about 1/2 hour which totally trashed the battery. Trying to turn it off to save power made the problem worse.

Thanks for all the help.

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