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iPod 3rd Gen' - Battery Issue, Even after upgraded battery installed

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lawlcake:
Hey guys, I'm a slightly-long time lurker, first time poster, so go easy on me. I apologize if this is in the wrong section.

Anyways, I recently acquired the all-mighty iPod Classic 3rd generation. I previously had a sansa e280 with Rockbox on it and I thought it was about time to hang up the poor guy.

So, after upgrading the battery to a 850 mAh capacity battery, I install the Rockbox firmware I am oh so familiar with. However, I noticed that, even when iPod is off, it seems that the battery, for some odd reason, still is running. For example, Lets say I turn off the ipod at around 96 percent of battery full. I turn it on, it'll be around 80 percent, or even 75 percent. What's the dealio?!

Could this be a Rockbox problem, or a hardware problem? I doubt its a hardware problem, what with the new battery and all. Please help, and much thanks!

AlexP:
If you are a long time lurker, I'm sure you have seen many messages like:

This is nothing to do with installation, so why have you posted it in the installation section?  Please read the stickies in each forum before posting.

There is no Classic 3rd Gen.  There is an iPod 3rd Gen, which I guess is what you have (Apple are hugely inconsistent in their naming, I'll give you that).

As for your problem, I seem to remember something like this coming up before a while ago - have a search and see what you find.  Also, a new battery doesn't rule out any hardware issues - it could be a bad battery (no-name ones from ebay are notoriously unreliable) or it could be some other hardware issue causing the battery to drain, even if they battery is fine.  This might have more chance of being true given how old the 3rd Gen players are now.

It could of course be Rockbox too I guess - the iPod 3rd Gen port is not the most used so something could always have slipped through.

lawlcake:
For the record, I said "slightly-long time lurker", mainly because, as said earlier, I had a Sansa e280 with Rockbox on it, so I would just spend my time around here and see what's going on. Eventually I lost interest and the rest is history. I'm also aware that there's no 'classic' ipod for the 3rd generation, but I just used it to describe the ipod, just so people don't get confused. Hope that clears things up. Anyways...

I did a little test with the battery. I found out that, for an hour and 25 minutes of non-stop music play, the battery life goes from 94 percent yo 78 percent, a gap of 16 percent. Once turning it off, then turning it back on after 10 minutes, I lost another 10 percent, bringing it to 68 percent.

My battery replacement was actually not done by me, but done by irepair.ca in Toronto. They pretty reliable, and I'm pretty sure that their batteries aren't from ebay.

in terms of hardware, what component do you think could be causing this? Any idea?

Llorean:
Have you tried seeing if the battery capacity is really that much lower. Some players report a lower capacity on boot, but after a period it either levels out or turns out not to affect the actual runtime.

lawlcake:
Actually Liorean, it does seem to be doing that. Is that some kind of bug or something?

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