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battery dying on a 5g

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joust:
are you saying its the original firmware? can that be changed?
I will uninstall rockbox and see if its doing the same thing.

i did another test last night.
it shut down with a full charge and this morning the battery was only the smallest little bit left.

edit:
hey, I just tried to run ipodpatcher and uninstall rockbox. it says it cannot find and ipod. but its runnign in ipod mode and itunes finds it.

edit#2
did it. had to reboot my PC.
i'll test now with ipod sw only and see if its simply the battery. or related to rockbox

Llorean:
The iPod software doesn't actually shut down the iPod, normally. It just goes into a low power mode but stays on. To test it with the original firmware, you'd need to leave the iPod untouched for several days until it goes into what Apple calls "deep sleep". Even then it may not show the same behaviour.

joust:
but as long as it keeps a charge over night with disuse, it would have performed better than rockbox :(
so far it seems to be i charged it fully at 4pm and it is now almost 10 still fully charged.
so what in rockbox is killing the battery? cannot rockbox use the same low power mode technique to preserve battery life?

Llorean:
We cannot use Apple code. Do you know how to properly suspend the hardware rather than shutting it down?

Right now you're comparing Apples to Oranges. The Apple software does something we cannot do better than we do something entirely different. The Apple software also plays DRMed music better than us, right?

The most likely case is that something hardware or flash-firmware specific causes the battery to drain. It wouldn't be Rockbox's fault so much as "This would happen in the Apple firmware too, if it is allowed to finally shut down" and if this is the case, having a different OF version installed may resolve it.

joust:
i see your point. I didn't meant to offend. If thats how you read it, I'm sorry, that was not my intent.
I merely would like to have the unit not expend its battery while turned off.
I MUCH prefer rockbox over the native apple environment.

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