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Battery is getting eaten FAST

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Chronon:

--- Quote from: funman on July 17, 2010, 10:11:35 AM ---The batteries are not all exactly the same.

Also rockboy needs to boost the CPU for the games to be realtime so the battery will deplete much faster.


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Not to mention that the backlight will be on, which is the biggest consumer of battery.

muyloco1:
That's what I was starting to think... Would making brightness darker and making the black light timer to about 5 seconds increase battery life?

funman:
Yes, but it depends how much time you have the backlight active of course.

5 seconds with backlight at maximum brightness won't be much different from 5 seconds with minimum brightness or 1 minute with maximum brightness, if the player runs with the backlight off for 14 hours.

sadzior:
let me tell you what i did to improve my fuze v1 battery life

-everytime i plug in my fuze to upload some music, i install the current release of RB (check the manual). Sometimes it improves the battery life significantly
-turn the brightness of the screen to 50% or less (the less, the better)
-turn off the crossfeed function - it barely makes a difference on regular headphones, but it eats the battery like a mad man  (at least on mine)
-delete all games so that you wont get tempted ;)
-get some good headphones that will suppress the external sounds like traffic etc, therefore you will be able to turn the volume down and save the battery

Hope i helped

muyloco1:

--- Quote from: sadzior on July 17, 2010, 04:22:21 PM ---let me tell you what i did to improve my fuze v1 battery life

-everytime i plug in my fuze to upload some music, i install the current release of RB (check the manual). Sometimes it improves the battery life significantly
-turn the brightness of the screen to 50% or less (the less, the better)
-turn off the crossfeed function - it barely makes a difference on regular headphones, but it eats the battery like a mad man  (at least on mine)
-delete all games so that you wont get tempted ;)
-get some good headphones that will suppress the external sounds like traffic etc, therefore you will be able to turn the volume down and save the battery

Hope i helped

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Thanks I'm gonna do this right now!

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