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iPod 5.5G w/CF card - bad battery or hardware issue?
michaelc5047:
I've got a 5.5G iPod (30GB model) that has been modded with a 32GB aData CF card. The battery in it is a 650mAh aftermarket generic battery off of eBay. I Rockboxed it with Tarkan's build (from SVN of July 3rd.) I ran a battery bench last night and got a mere 9 hours and 45 minutes out of it.
Obviously, I suspect the battery is bad (even though I bought it in March) and have ordered a new one from a different vendor. Are there any hardware issues that could cause this, other than the battery? The battery life was also not great with the original firmware and the CF card.
soap:
No support for anything but the official build.
Who knows what CPU (and thus battery) hogging mods Tarkan has on his build.
Llorean:
Though if the OF has short life too, you really should try without the CF card.
michaelc5047:
--- Quote from: soap on August 16, 2008, 03:10:01 PM ---No support for anything but the official build.
--- End quote ---
Fair enough.
--- Quote ---Who knows what CPU (and thus battery) hogging mods Tarkan has on his build.
--- End quote ---
His patch is only to get aData CF cards working (not that you had any way of knowing that from my original message.) The original discussion of it is found here: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=14524.msg129043#msg129043
--- Quote from: Llorean ---Though if the OF has short life too, you really should try without the CF card.
--- End quote ---
Don't own a hard drive that'll fit it (other than a 6GB microdrive from an iPod mini that will fit the ZIF-to-CF adapter...)
saratoga:
That patch changes how hardware devices are initialized on the Ipod. If its leaving some of them enabled that should not be, then battery life will probably be decreased.
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