Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
Catch the idle shutdown
Zardoz:
Not a whole lot. Admittedly it's a gimmick. But it might be a useful one. What about the screen flashes 'on-off' every 5 or so seconds for a set time between 10 and 90 seconds before shutdown? (here the configurable option.) That's probably a silly idea
Multiplex:
--- Quote from: bascule on October 31, 2008, 10:18:37 AM ---Why not just increase the idle shutdown setting...?
http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-h300/rockbox-buildch8.html#x11-1360008.5.5
On the hard drive players especially, the battery usage for saving settings and then restarting probably outweighs quite significantly additional drain from leaving the player in a paused state for an extended period.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, actually I think I have but how far to go?
Llorean's point feels about right, but I have not investigated the actual figures (for any player) - certainly I think that shutdown and restart will use more power then many minutes of paused and backlight off.
Just like the screensaver analogy I'd appreciate the opportunity to catch it and re-start the timeout, on the expectation that I'll be wanting to use it again very soon.
I'll take a look next weekend and see if I can do anything (particularly as someone beat me to the Sudoku candidates display)
LinusN:
I think this sounds like a pretty good thing. Maybe a "Shutting down in X seconds" countdown?
JdGordon:
ok, fine, probably easy to implement, but then you have the same complaint where its not displaying for long enough... "oh i just got back to my desk and it turned off just as i pressed a button.. can you increase it to 30s?" ... 60s? 90s?
edit: might not be so easy to implement...
Llorean:
Well, you still use the same idle shutdown time the user set (as in, don't increase it any), but have a "yes/no" option for "Warn before shutdown" which turns the backlight on 5 seconds before shutdown with a brief countdown.
5 seconds doesn't seem like long, but they've already set the idle shutdown time, and they can press a button at any time *before* those 5 seconds to cancel the idle shutdown anyway, it's just a very last-second warning before it shuts down.
I don't think we need to be concerned about people wanting "just a little more time" since the user still gets to set the idle time, and they can press a button during any portion of the idle time, we really just need to give them a brief warning right before the idle time runs out.
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